Aegon is launching a new governed range for its corporate pensions offering, built around 46 best of breed funds selected and monitored by Mercer and OBSR.The move is designed to relieve trustees...
Axa corporate benefits managing director Paul McMahon has unveiled the leadership team he has put in place to take the business forward.McMahon, who was formerly managing director of Axa Distribution Services, took...
Towergate Financial, the financial advisory business of Towergate Group, today is launching an employee benefits and private client arm called Towergate Financial London.Managing director David Taylor joins from Morgans Group where he...
The Government says advising employees to opt out of auto-enrolment will be permitted after 2012, but concedes the rules on inducements remain unclear.Advisers attending the Corporate Adviser DC Summit quizzed David Haigh,...
New taxes on high earners will force decision makers away from workplace pensions, according to three-quarters of delegates at the Corporate Adviser DC Summit.A poll taken at the event found 74 per...
Employee benefits consultants have vowed to fight attempts by insurers to bypass the advisory market in the corporate pensions sector, threatening to fight fire with fire.Dick Strattan, head of employee benefits at...
The CBI is calling on the Government to keep employer duties for those wanting to opt out of personal accounts as light as possible or face mass levelling down.Speaking at the Corporate...
Debi O’DonovanLast month the government launched its consultation into how the current default retirement age (DRA) is working. I for one would like to see the back of it as fast as...
More than nine out of 10 corporate advisers believe personal accounts and auto-enrolment will be a boon for advisory business in spite of ongoing uncertainty around the proposed regime.Responding to a survey...
Trust-based schemes will remain attractive to some employers post-2012, whether or not the FSA attempts to restrict them, said delegates at the Corporate Adviser DC Summit.Delegates said that even though the FSA...
