Pensions

Shadowing arguably the most popular pensions minister for a generation is a challenging brief. For Labour’s rising star Gregg McClymont, the MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East, the job is as...

This was the subject of a blog I read towards the end of last year, referring to the famous line from The Life of Brian - “All right, but apart from the...

Britain has a long track history of creating world-beating technologies. How many nations can genuinely claim that their citizens invented things that have changed the world as much as the telephone, the...

The pressure on business enterprises to deliver more with fewer resources is unrelenting and, while technology developments continue to drive the pace of change, the nature of work has changed out of...

We are often asked what Grid members get for their money. The short answer is ’plenty’ - regular legislative updates, exclusive access to Grid’s employer research results and roundtable debates, input to...

Over the next few years over 10 million individuals will start to save towards a pension as a result of auto-enrolment, with the first staging date due to happen in October this...

As the UK medical insurance market stagnates, advisers are looking further afield for new opportunities. Growth figures of anything from 10 to 30 per cent a year are making international medical insurance...

Critical illness cover may have traditionally been the poor relation to life cover and income protection in the group risk arena, but the last few years have seen the product make steady...

The Answers -Andy Tully, pensions technical director at MGM AdvantageIt is harsh to single out corporate advisers for not doing a better job. But for a whole lot of schemes, it is...

With this year’s crucial Budget just weeks away, speculation over the future of tax relief on pensions is building.Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury, reiterated his party’s desire to severely curtail...