Pensions

Schemes can also now be written through the CLASS system for group critical illness where there has been a previous claim. Previously, CLASS only allowed quotations and scheme placement online for cases...

The newly-appointed partners are Steven Baxter who is appointed partner to the longevity risk team and Stephen Birch, David Boyd, Nick Forrester and Clare Gardner, who are all appointed partners to the...

Robin Dixon, head of worksite sales at Simplyhealth, parent of health plan providers HSA, LHF and HealthSure, says: "We expect sales to grow in the future, which is in line with predictions...

Some people think employers baulk against rehabilitation services for their employees because of the cost. But the more likely reason is they don't really know what they are.Broaching the subject in such...

The Department for Work and Pensions has got some new statistics together on how well savers in personal accounts will do after a lifetime saving in the scheme.The data confirms what we...

As the group pension market faces up to the challenge of personal accounts, I believe we need to start to make our products as easy to understand as an iPhone. The problem...

The Government's pensions reform agenda is an ambitious one. From 2012, over a million employers will have to adopt new pension duties for their entire workforce, whether permanent or temporary. No private...

Like an oil prospector turning the tap on his pipe for the first time, Jonathan Plumtree, head of Zurich Corporate Risk is glowing with satisfaction at the first on risk client for...

The number of firms looking to reduce their defined benefit pension liabilities by offering employees incentives to leave is expected to soar, as rising costs push full buyouts out of reach for...

It is official. Equities were the worst performing asset class over the past decade, delivering negative real returns since 1998.According to the 2009 Barclays Equity Gilt Study, UK equities suffered average annual...