Medical insurance is facing something of a crisis. With medical costs and consumer expectation increasing, premiums are outstripping inflation and leaving employers facing tough decisions about providing cover. The extent of the...
It’s official - equities are back in favour. The new year rhetoric of the brave is stocks and shares are where the profit is at. 2012 was the year of the Olympics,...
The publication of the DWP’s flat rate pension proposals are meant to help auto-enrolment, not damage it. They are supposed to provide a solid bedrock upon which savings can be made, with...
Advisers face a winter planning blight on consultancy charging as the DWP digests whether it will abolish the charging structure altogether for auto-enrolment schemes. Advisers and providers urgently need to get their...
It may be some time before clear lessons emerge from the experience of first staging firms in auto-enrolment. Most of the big ten companies are keeping their cards very close to their...
Integrating the Alexander Forbes business, sussing out which providers to work closest with and digesting pension reform and the RDR are all challenges in the inbox of JLT Benefit Solutions’ new chief...
The Government’s response, published last week, also includes a pledge to revise fit note guidance to reflect fitness for any work and not just one specific role.The Government says it will not...
The new products, which will be launched for all Flex schemes starting from January 2013, will offer a choice between a comprehensive health cash plan or one that removes the dental benefit....
The Health Cover UK Market Report has revealed that, despite continuing economic pressures, which resulted in the volume of demand for UK health cash plans falling by 1.5 per cent in 2011,...
Elements and Elements Plus — available from January 2013 — are claimed to provide SMEs with a cost-effective healthcare benefits option, while providing intermediaries with an alternative scheme for companies with three...
