Pensions

A ban on consultancy charging would mean advisers who have spent much of the last year renegotiating their terms of engagement with clients will have to agree new remuneration arrangements with their...

Steve Webb, pensions minister Webb has written to ABI director-general Otto Thoresen demanding an explanation of how consultancy charging will work, just five weeks before the Retail Distribution Review is set to...

The Pensions Institute published its report last month on default funds, sponsored by Now: Pensions. While sponsored research is nothing new, the inclusion of some findings and the exclusion of some important...

Everything comes to he who waits. Unfortunately for the pensions industry, and UK employers, it’s all come at the same time. Auto-enrolment may have just started, but it is only one player...

Research carried out Cancer Research UK has highlighted the issues of cancer diagnosis and patient attitudes to seeing their GP. It may not seem immediately apparent but these findings are also relevant...

We are getting an increasing number of reports suggesting that employers now need a lead time of approximately 12 months to establish a scheme to comply with auto enrolment. This compares with...

The Interim Report of the Sergeant Review of Simple Financial Products has put forward proposals for the first three Simple Financial Products – an easy access savings account, a 30 day notice...

A call for far greater scrutiny of legacy schemes that will be populated with new members, the identification of an RDR-caused advice gap in the small employer section of the market, a...

Aviva’s Auto-Enrolment Manager for Employers (AME) will be integrated into Lorica’s Simplicity auto-enrolment customer portal.The auto-enrolment portal is effective across multiple pension providers’ schemes. Customers will be able to stay up to...

The DWP says it is considering its options and remains committed to transitional arrangements only applying to employers automatically enrolling staff into DB schemes.But the department stopped short of saying it will...