Pensions

With just a few months to the start of the great pensions revolution, there is no simple answer to the question of whether the UK is ready for auto-enrolment.Industry figures sound relatively...

EU internal market and services Commissioner Michel Barnier will today ask member states and the European Parliament to enact new, EU-wide, consumer standards to prevent consumers across the EU from being sold...

The provider’s Aegon Retirement Choices platform will offer access to 1,400 funds and a wide range of tax wrappers including corporate Isa, offshore bond and share dealing. The platform’s gating system enables...

The new rules apply to both existing workers and potential new recruits. Making a job offer or higher salary conditional on not joining the employer’s automatic enrolment scheme is now illegal. A...

So we had all better pray that the Brussels oligarchy uncharacteristically manages to engage brain before too long, if a disaster is to be averted. UK PLC is sitting on a £160bn...

Alistair McQueen, Workplace Savings, Manager, Aviva Hold on to your hats. It’s going to be a big six months.The Olympics are on our doorstep, auto-enrolment is less than a hundred days away...

Corporate advisers have had more than a year to digest good practice guidance on implementing consultancy charges under the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), but 15 months on there is little clarity on...

Access to NHS dentistry is on the up, with 1.4 million more people receiving treatment in the last 24 months than in the same period ending March 2006. But, according to a...

Proposed changes to Disability Living Allowance, which pays up to £120 a week to help disabled people meet the additional costs of mobility and care, are certainly proving emotive. There have already...

As many as 70 of the FTSE 100 companies now offer diversified growth funds (DGFs) as part of the fund range in their defined contribution pension schemes, it emerged last month, up...