Pensions

JLT GROUP has become the UK’s fourth biggest employee benefit consultant with the acquisition of HSBC Actuaries and Consultants. Combined revenues of £125m and staff of 1,400 mean it has leapfrogged Aon,...

Friends Provident is launching an executiononly Sipp as part of the roll out of its corporate platform functionality through 2010.Friends says the launch, which is expected to happen in June 2010, is...

We all knew that the Retail Distribution Review was going to cause a big shakeup in the corporate pensions market. Actually seeing the outlawing of commission in black and white, on the...

This Christmas just gone, if we so wished, we could have bought our presents, chatted to our friends and family, booked our parties and bought our groceries, all online. I’m sure it...

The June 2009 House of Lords final judgment on Stringer v HMRC has left the group income protection community little wiser about holiday pay and sick leave issues than they were five...

Intermediaries have played a major role in the growth of both the private medical insurance and group income protection markets since the mid-1980s. But more recently, growth in sales of both of...

As I examined last month, the increased cost to consumers of face to face advice in a post RDR world represents a major opportunity for corporate or workplace platforms to become the...

As readers of Corporate Adviser, you will almost certainly know that Pada has been engaging widely with the investment industry, consumer groups and all interested parties on designing the investment strategy for...

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...