Pensions

Speaking at a The CityUK conference in London last month, Elizabeth Corley, chief executive officer of Allianz Global Investors said: “There is an assumption in the IORP that there is enough capital...

Providers say schemes with bigger deficits will usually have to retain some risks for longer.  However, strong demand for liquid assets is allowing trustees holding gilts to sell them and buy annuities at...

The provider believes its new Hospital Treatment Insurance can flourish in the space between traditional PMI and cash plans and leverage the demand created by increasing pressure on the NHS.Westfield says it...

The provider points to research that suggests that, in typical markets, its strategy, which it calls ‘Retirement Bridge’, would have provided nearly 20 per cent higher annual retirement income on eventual annuitisation...

Asked how they will respond to automatic enrolment, just 43 per cent of those employees without a pension currently said they will remain within the scheme once enrolled, with 21 per cent...

The Pensions Policy Institute’s message to 45 per cent of workers over 50 could not be more bleak. Work and save for 11 years or more beyond State Retirement Age if you...

How does it go? “Holding back the tears, ’cause nothing here has grown.” It certainly applies to the world of pensions, where the position of those working in the private sector just...

Welfare reform is pointing to a larger role for employers in safeguarding employee health and wellbeing. But, while the group risk and medical insurers are preparing for increased interest in their products,...

The defined contribution takeover is gathering pace. Another month goes by, another defined benefit scheme bites the dust. And as the auto-enrolment programme soon becomes a reality for tens of thousands of...

The two big ticket options on the table are a ’pot should follow member’ system and the super aggregator or aggregators proposal. Improvements to the existing transfer system are a less spectacular...