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1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

  • Are your portfolio tools impartial?

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    The industry needs to be wary of the assumptions underlying the risk profiling and asset allocation tools currently being added to financial products says Ian McKenna, director of the Financial Technology Research Centre

  • C is for cost-counting

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    The cost implications of cancer claims are forcing insurers to rethink the way they cover the condition, presenting difficult decisions for advisers and employers says Sam Barrett

  • Cancer drug Avastin puts spotlight on NICE

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

  • DWP blames EU legislation as it ends DC risk-sharing consultation

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    THE DEPARTMENT for Work and Pensions says fear of breaching European legislation and the risk of creating unfairness between generations has led it to discontinue its DC risk-sharing consultation.

  • ETVs – getting it right

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Prudential’s Martyn Phillips assesses the vital role that corporate advisers play in delivering a successful ETV exercise.

  • Friends launches execution-only Sipp

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

  • FSA ban on commission on group pensions ‘to force adviser contraction’

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    THE BAN on commission on group personal pensions set out in the Retail Distribution Review will lead to a contraction in the numbers of corporate pension advisers and could see fewer consumers accessing generous workplace DC pensions, sayindustry experts.

  • Gilts set to wilt in inflationary heat

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    The gilt market is set for some stormy weather as the new year unfolds, so get your umbrellas ready, says Teresa Hunter

  • Group Sipp take-up soars

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Take-up of group Sipps has almost doubled in the last two years according to figures from Defaqto. In 2009 group Sipps made up 23 per cent of group pension recommendations amongst a sample of 500 IFAs, up from 14 per cent in 2007 and 15 per cent in 2008. GPP recommendationsconstituted 62 per cent of recommendations last year, up 50 per cent from 2007, according to the research company’s Retirement Savings & Income report 2009.

  • It’s time to embrace e-commerce

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Why is the group risk sector the only market that cannot embrace customer-friendly online solutions? asks Cheryl Brennan, risk manager at Enrich

  • JLT leapfrogs Aon with HSBC acquisition

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    JLT GROUP has become the UK’s fourth biggest employee benefit consultant with the acquisition of HSBC Actuaries and Consultants. Combined revenues of £125m and staff of 1,400 mean it has leapfrogged Aon, taking its place in the top four alongside Mercer, Watson Wyatt and Hewitt.

  • L&G launch aims at small DB schemes

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

  • Master-trust RDR loophole to remain, but pressure grows for level playing field

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    THE FSA has no plans to extend its powers to cover occupational schemes at present, but says it will look again at the issue if commission through trust-based arrangements becomes prevalent. Some providers have said they will offer pension business on a trust-based basis, offering both the ability to sidestep the requirement of the RDR and also to allow employers to rebate contributions to staff thatleave within two year. Experts have pointed out that the FSA has no jurisdiction over ...

  • No signs of resistance

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    ‘Dodgy dossier’ may be going too far, but the FSA’s latest CP on corporate pensions seems sexed up.

  • Nothing reckless about conservatism

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    The personal accounts default fund cannot afford to take too many risks in its early years says Mark Fawcett, investment director of the Personal Account Default Fund

  • Payment holiday

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    A series of cases relating to holiday pay have left group risk professionals struggling to advise their clients on the matter, says Edmund Tirbutt

  • Personal accounts roll-out a casualty of Chancellor's austerity drive

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    THE FULL roll-out of personal accounts and automatic enrolment will be delayed until 2017 to reduce the amount of tax relief given away by the Treasury, but large employers will still have to start contributing into the scheme from 2012.

  • Promises promises

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    The countdown to a general election has all but begun. John Lappin investigates what the politicians have in store

  • Provider division ‘killing off GPPs’

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Providers who conspired against commission in the group pension market will come to regret their decision, advisers are warning.

  • Ritchie's solid geometry

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Biggest player in his chosen market within five years, an e-commerce solution for SMEs by the end of the year and a GIP launch to boot. Ellipse chief executive John Ritchie has big plans for his baby.

  • Sins of commission?

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    The ABI may be happy with the outcome of the RDR on corporate commissions. John Greenwood finds not everyone else is

  • THE BIG QUESTION

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Do you see fundamental problems in the introduction of corporate wraps into the workplace?

  • THE CORPORATE AGENDA

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Employers should handle any ETV exercises with kid gloves

  • The return of buy-to-let

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Newspapers are telling us that house prices are on the way back up. Mark Lewis examines the case for and against getting back into bricks and mortar

  • The ultimate choice

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Once again Corporate Adviser wants you, the advisers who effectively decide where most British workers’ pensions are invested, to vote for your favourite default fund. John Greenwood reports

  • This way or that

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Martin Palmer, Head of Corporate Pensions Marketing, Friends Provident

  • Time to look beyond PMI

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Kicking off our new monthly healthcare comment section, Dudley Lusted, head of corporate healthcare development at Axa PPP healthcare argues PMI intermediaries risk losing business if they do not embrace employee wellbeing

  • Turf war between providers and advisers

    1 January 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Advisers say providers are increasingly targeting their clients direct. Gill Wadsworth finds insurers parking their tanks onconsultants’ lawns

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