THE CONSISTENT decline in achievable pension income supports the government’s moves to increase retirement age, says Aon. Yet the increases in retirement age proposed so far will still leave people receiving pensions...
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme paid more than £204m in compensation to over 21,000 claimants in 2009/10.Two-thirds of the compensation paid during the year was for Payment Protection Insurance and investment claims....
Aegon UK has signed a deal with GBST, a global provider of technology solutions for the implementation of its Composer solution, to support some of its existing products and future propositions as...
US FUND management giant Vanguard is planning to launch a target date fund offering for use as a default fund in the UK corporate DC market some time in early 2011.The product,...
RETIREES wanting to take advantage of the Government’s proposed annuity reforms could need a £300,000 pension pot to do so.The proposals, now under consultation, would allow future pensioners to seek better investment...
The end of June was a busy time for announcements on the future of corporate pensions. On 24th June, the DWP announced a review of Nest and auto-enrolment, which could have significant...
Anyone who has been closely involved with preparing for RDR in the individual market will be far from surprised by the FSA’s views on consultant charging. Entirely worthy objectives appear to be...
Last year UK GDP fell by 4.9 per cent following the global recession.As a result, consumer spending has understandably followed suit, with both companies and individuals becoming far more price conscious and...
They’re under starter’s orders… and… THEY’RE OFF! Taking an early lead is Joe Bloggs Consultancy but he falls at the first hurdle as Mr Employer brings up obstacle1 - we can’t afford...
DEBI O’DONOVANThere has been a rising tide of incentive and recognition schemes in UK organisations. Now that we are supposed to be coming out of recession, staff are getting pretty sick and...
