Pensions

We all know automatic enrolment is a huge challenge for the nation’s employers. It goes without saying that the experience will be a painful one for the million or so company heads...

Thoresen: “UK financial services’ reputation hurt by banking crisis” The insurance industry needs to address the low standing of its reputation in the eyes of the public says ABI director general Otto...

McPhail: “This looks like a reasonable compromise. Most importantly, no-one with a Nest pension will be forced to use the panel” Nest has unveiled a retirement panel of five providers to offer...

The Pensions Management Institute has elected Susan Andrews as its new president. She will take over from current president Mike Sullivan at the PMI’s Annual General Meeting on 7 July 2011. Andrews...

BHSF is planning a move into the flexible benefits market with a low-cost offering targeted specifically at the SME to mid-corporate market.The new offering, which is set to be launched in the...

Mercer is launching a diversified growth fund that will form the core of the default offering within its platform-based workplace savings solution. Mercer says the fund uses its best thinking for defined...

Many of the wrinkles that need ironing out relate to self-insured schemes. The draft regulations pertaining to the DRA exemption produced this February did not make it sufficiently clear whether it applied...

Grid’s service standards charter and new business templates are to be launched on its website in September.Aiming to streamline business processes and make the market more accessible, the service standard charter and...

Increasing state pension age and making it flat-rate, overseeing implementation of auto-enrolment and reforming public sector pensions all at the same time is a big ask, and squaring all the circles at...

Lindsey Joseph, Association of Medical Insurance IntermediariesI believe the question that is more appropriate is: Why won’t the holding insurers release claims information?! Historically SME clients were on a community rated proposition,...