Pensions

Although the subject does actually merit a full chapter in its latest consultation paper, which is a step up from the two paragraphs it received in the interim report, the industry is...

From prescriptive regulations on final salary pensions to auto-enrolment procedures via the Pensions Protection Fund (PPF) levy, the theme coming out of the CBI's head of employment and pensions is one of...

Corporate advisers take note. Last year's feedback statement FS08/6 contained only two short paragraphs about group personal pensions but revealed the dilemma that the FSA was juggling with. Should it regulate the...

When I wrote last month about the demand from generation Y consumers for technology-based services, the immediate reaction I received from Corporate Adviser editor John Greenwood was "I'm wondering which provider or...

This means that employee benefits such as group income protection can be set up so that they cease at the planned retirement age.It was always intended that the default of the retirement...

Staff salaries accounted for £13m of the costs, with outgoing chairman Paul Myners paid £150,000 over the period. Pada chief executive Tim Jones says: "The financial year marked a period of significant...

Reducing operating costs is the key priority for 89 per cent of the 143 UK schemes polled by Hewitt when asked to name their key focus both now and in the next...

The consultancy is making the claim following the announcement that the trustees of two of the pensions schemes sponsored by RSA Insurance group plc have completed a transaction to hedge much of...

The comparative figure for those schemes in deficit - in other words, excluding those schemes running a surplus - has also worsened, from £197bn at the end of May to £216bn at...