Pensions

Enquiries by the regulator’s compliance and enforcement team have led to a series of informal actions, including 28 instances where instructions have been issued by telephone, email, letter or in person and...

The provider says it has already had some cases where employers who are existing clients have made their first contact in relation to auto-enrolment after their staging date has already taken place,...

The findings of the FCA’s thematic review will have surprised nobody remotely connected with the pensions industry. But its launch of a ‘significant’ competition study into the annuity market last monthIndustry  has...

Should intermediaries be getting into setting up their own auto-enrolment schemes? It is hard to read the tealeaves on this one. On the one hand we have pronouncements from Andrew Warwick-Thompson down...

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way. This Mark Twain quote came to me when mulling over the vicious spat that broke...

The research, carried out amongst 118 employers, found 51 per cent of organisations expect to provide funding up to the new £500 tax break for medical interventions, with 8 per cent expecting...

The research found replacing an employee with a salary of £25,000 upwards in the legal, retail, accountancy, media & advertising and IT & tech sectors costs an average of £30,614. Lost output...

Only 15 per cent of UK employers surveyed said their objective for providing a DC plan is to ensure their workers save for an adequate retirement income, while 65 per cent said...

Many recognise the significance of helping employees manage the most common reasons for absence - musculoskeletal issues and minor illnesses. However, conditions which do not have obvious visible symptoms, such as mental...

At Canada Life Group Insurance we believe that there is much more to insurance than simply providing a financial benefit and product. Group risk claims do not happen every day, so we...