Pensions

Given the financial pressures on people retiring today you might expect more of them to be taking issue with the way their benefits are, or are not being paid. But Pensions Ombudsman...

This month the NAPF has started the hunt for the UK’s best defined contribution workplace pension schemes, with the launch of our Pension Quality Mark (PQM). The PQM will help employers demonstrate...

It is important not to let previous poor experiences prejudice your views so when I received an email from the FSA informing me of their new pensions calculator at the Money Made...

A year on from the meltdown of the financial system we have seen banks go bust and then be bailed out with billions of your money and mine. They have recovered enough...

Seaton, 57, joined the financial services industry in October 1986. He became a corporate financial adviser in July 1989 and a pensioneer trustee in 1990, before joining James Hay in 1993.With joint...

Intermediaries using CLASS will now be able to offer employers the option to cover employee’s National Insurance and pension scheme contributions, in addition to their standard income protection payment, in the event...

Xafinity’s move has sparked a number of life insurers to confirm they are also looking at trust-based offerings, which could prove attractive because they may be able to sidestep the Retail Distribution...

Thompson’s key objective will be to reduce the time that failed companies’ pension schemes take to enter the PPF in order to decrease costs for schemes and uncertainty for its members. Thompson...

The analysis of official private sector pensions statistics shows that between 2005 and 2008 there was a 5.1 per cent drop in the proportion of the working population in the private sector...

Foster joined Zurich in 1991 with a degree in mathematics from Cambridge University. He qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1994, and has held a wide variety of...