Pensions

Customers can use the international facility both when they are traveling and if they wish to travel abroad to take treatment in an overseas hospital they prefer. AWC says it is aiming...

The new service, AskTheExpert, will provide policy members with access to the opinions of over 50,000 medical experts. The new service will be offered alongside Best Doctors’ InterConsultation service but without the need...

Previously HMRC required that employees entering into salary sacrifice arrangement for pension contributions could not easily revert to their higher salary.  This was generally taken to mean that employees could not opt...

Is the consultancy charging regime proving to be one of the weaker links in the retail distribution review chain?The concept has certainly taken a bit of a battering in the last few...

Independent trustee firm PAN Governance has been selected as corporate director, with Delo appointed as chairman. Pickering joins as a director of the new trust company. B&CE says that while its current...

Ministers are not being straight with the public on the consequences of a flat-rate pension says Teresa Hunter As far as I can see, there is only one group that will lose...

As expatriate benefits programmes become increasingly complex, companies need to balance global consistency with sufficient flexibility to ensure appropriate and adequate coverage. Often, a single arrangement is the answer – consistency in...

As many nations, particularly in the developed world, continue to battle with difficult economic conditions, a new wave of fast-growing economies is emerging. We have all heard of the Brics - Brazil,...

With 20 years’ experience in Australia’s compulsory pensions system, Nick Sherry, Senator of Tasmania and former minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law is better positioned than most to comment on the reforms...

When a life company that almost no one outside the industry has heard of outperforms Axa, Friends Life, Legal & General, Prudential, Scottish Widows and Standard Life put together in terms of...