Pensions

High deductions from first year’s contributions to pay for consultancy charges will not succeed because they are unfair on low earners, said advisers at the Corporate Adviser Closing the Advice Gap industry...

John Taylor, Market Director, Corporate Pensions Scottish Widows Employees are facing a new challenge of increased responsibility for planning their own financial future. With Government pulling back the role of the state...

Philip Wright - Director UK - DKV Globality The global healthcare market is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the economy (insurance and care provision). This trend will become even more pronounced...

Teresa Hunter Bang, the whole lot goes up in smoke. So it is understandable that veterans of previous regulatory wars are sucking their teeth nervously at signs that the Pensions Regulator has...

He will be formally appointed to the board of Friends Provident Holdings (UK) plc on 1 June. Trevor Matthews, the current chief executive officer, will assume the role of vice chairman with...

Simplification of state pension and the abolition of contracting out, completing the indexation switch from RPI to CPI, public sector pensions reform and a successful launch of Nest are the four areas...

The move follows the company’s evolution to become a full-service employee benefits business, adding new flexible benefits and actuarial risk divisions in the last two years.  The company says it recorded a...

Standard Life’s former managing director of corporate solutions Gerry O’Neill and Vebnet sales director James Verner have been suspended from their roles at the company.Standard says it is unable to disclose the...

The survey, which received responses from 96 companies in the FTSE 100, found 41 per cent already auto-enrol their employees into DC schemes, while a further 28 per cent intend to change...

ONS figures show that average net pensioner income in 2009-10 was £338 per week after housing costs, a rise of 47 per cent since 1998-99.The ONS also says the number of pensioners...