Pensions

Whether it’s the state of NHS provision or the cover available on a medical insurance scheme, cancer treatment is one area of healthcare that is guaranteed to grab the headlines. And, as...

Buy-to-let is back, if you believe the headlines. Property prices are rising again and a swelling band of tenants, unable to access mortgages of their own, need homes to rent. But close...

With a general election to be held by June next year at the outside, corporate advisers are increasingly pondering what a new administration will mean for employers and employees. The smart money...

As the Pensions Regulator re-iterated in December, incentivising members to ‘give up’ their Defined Benefit arrangement in exchange for a DC alternative is not a straight forward process. Equally, such a move...

Christmas is a suitable time for reflection on the past year and thinking about what we want out of the next one. I think if I had to sum up 2009 it...

What a corker of an agenda awaits us at the start of this New Year. As if Tony Blair before the Chilcot inquiry wasn’t dramatic enough, there are the little matters of...

Advisers who distribute group pensions on a commission basis and employees who benefit from them are being sacrificed because the FSA is unable to figure out a way of insulating the individual...

The FSA says it has no plans to extend its powers to cover occupational schemes at present, but says it will look again at the issue if commission through trust-based arrangements becomes...

Today’s FSA consultation paper, CP09/31, Delivering the Retail Distribution Review: Professionalism, Corporate Pensions, proposes an end to the current commission-based system of adviser and employee benefit consultant remuneration in the GPP market....

Friends says the launch, which is pencilled in for later in 2010 although no date has yet been fixed, is designed to offer a home for the funds of employees leaving corporate...