Friends Life received the highest ratings for overall quality from 18 corporate benefit consultants interviewed by Greenwich Associates, followed by BlackRock and Zurich Corporate Savings. The research identified a trend towards consultancies...
Keeping interest rates at 0.5 per cent again this month, the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the programme of asset purchases by a further £50bn, taking the total to £325bn.The...
Thomsons Online Benefits chief executive Michael Whitfield also walked away with the gong for Best Use of Technology by a Corporate Adviser at the event at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel.Jelf Employee Benefits...
It has emerged that while it has figures for the proportion of people switching provider at annuity purchase, this includes those switching under blanket deals between holding pension provider that do not...
The research shows 20 per cent of advisers expect half of all employees to opt out, with half of those polled believing those under age 35 will be most likely to do...
PSigma Asset Management was formed in February 2007 as a joint venture - 50 per cent owned by the founder partners and 50 per cent by the Punter Southall Group. Since then,...
The charge comes on the publication of a damning report on the state of the annuitisation process in the group pensions market that has found evidence of price manipulation, differentials between pricing...
Whatever happens to the Euro, it is premature to bank on an end to infernal meddling from annoying technocrats any time soon.So, while on one level side-splittingly hilarious, the latest EU proposals...
Group life schemes’ catastrophic event limits are what I have in mind. Maximising them can be a complex exercise involving multiple insurers and a lot of haggling, but they are too big...
Alot can change in 12 months. After 2011, neither Middle East politics nor the Eurozone will ever be the same. And nor should the Income Protection market. Not one but two insurers...
