Money Marketing
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
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Eye tooth benefits
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
Dental and optical plans may not offer intermediaries the same incentives as other strands of business. But they are still an important piece of the healthcare jigsaw, finds Sam Barrett
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A manifesto for group risk
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
Katharine Moxham, spokesperson for Group Risk Development, asks how politicians could get the group risk vote and what the industry’s manifesto should look like
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Aegon's derivatives offering
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
Aegon Asset Management is launching an asset management service that provides pension schemes with a bespoke overlay that uses derivatives and other financial instruments to actively mitigate against downside risk, while optimising upside opportunities.
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All about Steve
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
Complete abolition of higher rate tax on pensions, immediate access to tax-free cash and no more than a grudging acceptance of the Nest consensus. John Greenwood finds Liberal Democrat work and pensions shadow Steve Webb in radical mood
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Corporate Adviser Group Risk Adviser Forum
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
An integrated approach to managing staff wellness, productivity and absence is at the core of the group risk industry. Edmund Tirbutt reports
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Corporate Adviser Group Risk Adviser Forum
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
GRiD’s position as a lobbying body for the sector reflects he value of group risk products themselves, reports John Greenwood
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Debt agencies inundated with enquiries as personal debt soars
4 Feb 2010
National Audit Office warns free advice service is being stretched.
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Enrich launches pension service
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
Enrich, the benefits and reward company formed from the group risk business of Gissings, is launching a pensions service two years after the organisation was cut in two by a MBO.
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Exempt through complexity
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
We still don’t know what an exempt scheme will look like, but that is because the government is in listening mode, says John Greenwood
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Hats off to the FSA
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
The RDR ban on commission will stop advisers taking cash from employees without them knowing it says Teresa Hunter
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Let's fight to preserve pensions' golden rule
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
The way the Treasury is changing tax relief on pensions needs to be vigorously challenged by the industry says John Lawson, head of pensions policy at Standard Life
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Pick me a winner
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
The adviser’s process for selecting default funds is arguably the most important stage in building a benefits package. Paul Farrow examines how intermediaries are approaching the task
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Pressure all round
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
The coming decade will see PMI insurers get increasingly risk averse. Advisers must be prepared for change says Mike Izzard, chairman of the Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries
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Ramamurthy to head up Towers Watson's European operation
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
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Scottish Life says consultancy charging works
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
Scottish Life has rejected suggestions that an RDR-enforced move to consultancy charging that is akin to its own financial adviser’s fee model will choke off group pension distribution.
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Sharing the burden
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
Risk-sharing - the saviour of workplace pensions or an idea that has had its day? Gill Wadsworth asks what the future holds for risk-sharing now the Government has rejected the latest batch of proposals
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Shop floor pay grew fastest in 2009 says PwC report
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
FTSE executives’ pay increases have been outstripped by UK average pay increases for the first time in a decade, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ annual report on executive compensation.
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Slow change coming
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
Providers may be right to want to change the way business is transacted. But advisers are not expecting it to happen overnight, finds Edmund Tirbutt
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THE BIG QUESTION
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
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The corporate agenda
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
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This nest looks bound to fall
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
The mobile phone is the best way to communicate with the Nest target audience says Ian McKenna, director of the Financial Technology Research Centre
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Too busy to listen
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
As the general election draws closer, the temptation for politicians to duck important decisions grows ever stronger
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Tot-ting up finances
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
Martin Palmer, Head of Corporate Pensions Marketing, Friends Provident
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Willcock joins Aviva as MD
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
Aviva has appointed Phil Willcock as managing director of its UK Health business. Willcock first joined Aviva (formally Norwich Union) in 1996, and has held many roles at the provider, including sales and marketing director for Norwich Union Healthcare (now Aviva UK Health), director of life and healthcare distribution, director of business development, retail and recently, director of corporate benefits. Willcock says: “I’m delighted to be returning to UK Health and look forward to ...
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Workers can retire earlier, says Mercer
1 February 2010 Corporate Adviser
Surging equity prices mean that many employees may be able to work fewer years than recently feared in order to retire on a reasonable income, according to calculations from Mercer. Mercer’s new “DC Barometer” shows that on the basis of stock market conditions and annuity price movements between the end of December 2008 and December 2009, a scheme member considering retirement will now have to work around 15 months less in order to retire on the same expected income.
