Pensions

The Independent Project Board (IPB) has been set up in the wake of the OFT’s September 2013 report that identified around £30bn of savings in pre-2001 and other high charging contract and...

A contracted in worker of the same age earning £14,000 a year will get around £26 a week less, costing £35,000 to replace, the consultancy has calculated. Webb will pay an extra...

Ford joined Towers Watson 23 years ago and has held numerous leadership roles during that time, most recently heading the company’s investment business in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Towers Watson’s investment...

This weekend work and pensions shadow Rachel Reeves told the BBC that a Labour government would introduce a 0.75 per cent cap as a matter of urgency and that charge would fall...

The UK grew its pension assets by 64 per cent in the decade to December 2013. They now stand at 131 per cent of GDP. Equity allocations by UK pension funds fell...

Critical illness cover may not be the biggest-selling product in the group risk stable but some believe it punches above its weight in terms of reputational damage to the industry. When employees...

And so the pension charge cap farce rolls on. Auto-enrolment workplace pension schemes were widely expected to be capped, possibly at 0.75 per cent a year, but with a broad expectation that...

With their high value and low price appreciated by employer and employee alike, cash plans have become the darlings of the corporate healthcare market. But while they have grown successfully over the...

Just how equipped are corporate advisers for the 2014 auto-enrolment tsunami? On the outside most corporate intermediaries say they are very well positioned and coping with new and existing clients. But this...

The world’s seventh largest benefits consultancy by turnover, Arthur J Gallagher is a relative unknown in this country. Gallagher Employee Benefits chief executive Tim Johnson has been charged with changing that. To...