UKSIF, the sustainable investment and finance association, has called for employers to use the responsible investment approach offered by the National Employment Savings Trust as a benchmark when selecting defined contribution pensions...
James Biggs has been promoted to the new role of head of corporate pensions workplace savings at Lorica Employee Benefits.Sean Gilfeather, who continues running the company’s growing actuarial and risk management division,...
Pensions with consultancy charges that take 100 per cent of an employee’s first year’s contributions can be qualifying schemes for auto-enrolment purposes, the Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed.The confirmation quashes...
ALL ABOUT ADRIAN GRACECAREER2011: chief executive of Aegon UK2010: chief operating officer - life and pensions2009: joined Aegon UK as group businessdevelopment director2007: managing director, SME Banking, HBOS2004: chief executive, Barclays Insurance2001:...
The abolition of short service refund lump sums could jeopardise existing retirement savings and pressure to bring in such a change is being driven by self-interest says JLT Benefit Solutions.The consultancy says...
I’ve been speaking to employers about automatic enrolment and the new employer duties for a couple of years now. Some employers realise that they should really do something to prepare. Others are...
One in four people currently under age 16 will live to at least 100, according to figures published by the Department of Work and Pensions. Pensions minister Steve Webb said the figures...
The honeymoon period is well and truly over for the Coalition Government that has attracted so much praise, in the field of pensions at least, in its first months in office.As the...
But despite this, only 30 per cent of employers who responded to Punter Southall’s third annual DC pensions survey said they expect their current pension arrangements to be compliant.All respondents were aware...
In-force sums assured grew in excess of premiums across all product lines in 2010, reflecting the competitive nature of the market, with death benefit sums assured increasing by 7 per cent, critical...
