Pensions

What would the ordinary man in the street say if you walked up to him and told him that the Government had just taken up to £80,000 out of his wallet?No, that’s...

With the election only a couple of days away, predictions of what is going to happen in the pensions arena are everywhere. Debates on the pensions deficit, NEST, early access to retirement...

After four or five years of questions about corporate wraps, several answers are finally starting to emerge. While a number of life offices are offering or plan to offer their version of...

Demands for greater transparency continue to echo around the corporate healthcare arena. Following requests for more detail on SME claims history in the medical insurance sector, intermediaries are now calling for cash...

Sorry, your NHS cash claim is declined because you failed to pre-authorise your emergency admission.” “Sorry, you are declined as your new condition is linked to pregnancy, even though you last had...

Zurich and Munich (the home of Ellipse’s parent): feedback has been positive When Aegon withdrew from the group risk market in June 2009 it said it did so because it could get...

The rising issue of employers working in cahoots with pensions advisers to split provider-paid commissions has rightly drawn severe criticism from other advisers and employers alike.I can see how some employers may...

Advisers are aware that the potential closure of defined benefit schemes to new entrants or to future accrual may drive group risk market growth as self-insured death and spouses’ benefits become unbundled....

At the turn of the millennium, Alan Miller was one of Britain’s best-known star fund managers. He plied his trade successfully as an active fund manager, initially at Jupiter and then at...

John Jory, director, B&CE InsuranceNo. If commission is banned on new GPPs, it must also be banned on existing arrangements. Otherwise the industry will walk straight into yet another commission-driven product bias...