Pensions

Duncan Howorth, JLT Benefit Solutions The debate about the nature of members’ default funds is building and looks set to run for some time. This in itself is strange as members have...

Do you remember when you were a child and you asked a question to which there wasn’t a sensible short answer, or where the adult simply didn’t know what the answer was?...

Since the beginning of the year I have been looking increasingly at the range of personal financial management tools that are not just prevalent but free to consumers elsewhere in the world....

Kevin Melton, Axa PPP healthcare 2012 is proving to be yet another challenging year for intermediaries and employee benefits consultants advising on private medical insurance in the UK, with larger and smaller...

John Ritchie, Ellipse Way back in October 1998, in the early optimistic years of the new Labour government, Alistair Darling spoke at a conference I helped to set up during my days...

AFCA will become part of JLT’s Employee Benefits business, boosting its presence in the health and wellness, risk, wealth management, annuity and investment areas.AFCA employs over 300 people in the UK and...

Paul Black, LCP Finding the best solution for the de-risking of pension assets within defaults remains one of the primary challenges facing the industry, with target date funds seen as a substantial...

Lorraine Fraser, HSBC Workplace Retirement Services They hold the retirement hopes of an increasing proportion of the UK’s population, yet many default funds on legacy schemes remain unfit for purpose. So the...

With stress and mental issues amongst of the most debilitating and expensive conditions facing both employees and employers, income protection insurers are increasingly positioning themselves on their ability to tackle stress, anxiety...

Pension providers insist that they are willing to be open and transparent on charges and fees yet when it comes to revealing portfolio turnover rates (PTRs) and associated costs they clam up.If...