The provider, which launched a defined benefits proposition offering de-risking solutions to employers and trustees of smaller schemes last month, says ignoring the medical conditions of members with the biggest benefits means...
Lowe warns that unless a level playing field between trust-based and contract-based schemes is created, allowing advice to employers to be deducted from members’ pots in both situations, providers will simply write...
Called Design, Implement and Run, the proposition helps advisers create a series of reports centred around staging dates, current scheme review, workforce assessment and scheme selection. The service allows advisers to determine...
Clare Dare, Broadstone and Emily Marland, The Quadrant Group Auto-enrolment creates huge opportunities, but it also creates complexities for the group risk community - those firms that can make the pensions reforms...
Group Risk Adviser Forum Advisers driving group risk in the new world of auto-enrolment will encounter more of the same challenges - of perception, value, and cost. But with over 1.2m employers...
Seeing the cost of fraud Fraud is an issue across the insurance industry, accounting for annual losses of around £2.1 billion according to figures from the National Fraud Authority. But while staged...
Bond bubble bursting? Thousands of people approaching retirement could see the value of their pension pot plunge – if, or when as some would have it, the “gilt bubble” bursts. The so-called...
Liz Rae, senior adviser, investment and markets at the Investment Management Association also told Corporate Adviser that it was unlikely people would buy much of the research that is paid for through...
A new joint industry code of conduct for disclosure of pension charges has been given a cautious welcome, but Labour and the TUC say more needs to be done to restore faith...
While delegates acknowledged the contribution of group risk insurers, and a 200 per cent increase in employee assistance programmes (EAPs) over the last 10 years, it was noted that mental health problems...
