Pensions

Thirty-six new IPPs have been set up in the last year, according to data from Towers Watson’s IPP survey, which is now in its fourth year.The survey found funded DC remains the...

Legal & Generals DB de-risking business is targeting schemes with pensioner liabilities as low as £50m with longevity insurance.To date named life longevity insurance has only been made available to schemes with...

Speaking at the ABI’s Building a Resilient Workforce event in London yesterday, at which sickness absence review authors Dame Carol Black and David Frost were presenting their findings, McGarry also said high...

The Netherlands Central Bank’s recent announcement of cuts of up to 7 per cent in Dutch pensions in payment has highlighted the risks of collective DC structures, say critics.Dutch pensioners will see...

Aegon, Friends Life, Legal & General, Prudential, and Scottish Life have published a set of common principles and processes for the operation of consultancy charging with the aim of improving the efficiency...

DWP data shows that only 38 per cent of working-age people - 11.6 million out of 30.4 million people - are saving into a private pension.The figures show a steady decline in...

You can’t blame the ONS, which is only reporting what the experts say.What would we do without our experts, cast adrift on a sea of our own ignorance? We could never have...

Private providers of occupational health services will play a role in assessing absent employees’ mental and physical capability to work via a state-funded service, if the government accepts the recommendations of Frost/Black...

There can be few people with a clearer perspective on how the UK pension system compares with those in the rest of the world than Edward Whitehouse, principal administrator, directorate for employment,...

Several convergent forces are driving the need to revisit DC default fund design. Falling bond yields and equity markets highlight major shortcomings in current DC default fund provision, and regulatory change hastens...