The national TV advertising campaigns begun by Aviva and Unum in the final quarter of last year are already starting to increase consumers’ awareness of income protection, said delegates at last month’s...
The Government have re-opened discussions on reinvigorating occupational pensions, with Steve Webb indicating that they are open to a reduction or removal of indexation and, a possible reassessment of whether and how...
Marco Forato, Chief marketing officer, Unum The recent history of the Income Protection market has been well-documented. For two decades or more, nothing particularly radical came along to shake the status quo,...
Confusion over employment contracts, difficult HR consultants and misunderstandings as to what is covered are all holding back distribution of group income protection. That was the view of delegates at last month’s...
He contacts the insurer again, stressing the short-term nature of his prospects, to be told £3,600 is as high as they can go. His employer is shocked, and orders the in-house scheme...
The ultimate test of whether a defined contribution scheme is a success or not is the performance of its default fund. After all, it is well known that four in five workers...
Auto-enrolment is almost within touching distance, with the United Kingdom’s ten biggest employers introducing the system from the start of October, quickly followed by other large and medium-sized firms throughout 2013 and...
Shadowing arguably the most popular pensions minister for a generation is a challenging brief. For Labour’s rising star Gregg McClymont, the MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East, the job is as...
This was the subject of a blog I read towards the end of last year, referring to the famous line from The Life of Brian - “All right, but apart from the...
Britain has a long track history of creating world-beating technologies. How many nations can genuinely claim that their citizens invented things that have changed the world as much as the telephone, the...
