Money Marketing
1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

  • A new pension landscape?

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Martin Palmer, Head of Corporate Pensions Marketing, Friends Provident

  • A tale of two new providers

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    The arrival of two new providers into the group risk market has been broadly positive, finds Edmund Tirbutt. Advisers are hopeful more will follow

  • Benefits and brown envelopes

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Reports of backhanders to employers paid from upfront commission have highlighted the broader issue of what that remuneration can and cannot be used to pay for, says John Greenwood

  • Bluefin and TOMAS partnership

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Bluefin Corporate Consulting has launched an annuity desk for its DC pension clients in partnership with TOMAS - The Open Market Annuity Service offered by Kerr Henderson.

  • Cancer Tsar and Bupa chief to head AMII conference

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    THE Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries (AMII) has confirmed Natalie-Jane Macdonald, BUPA’s managing director and Professor Karol Sikora, medical director of CancerPartnersUK and widely respected cancer Tsar as key note speakers at its annual conference on 1 July.

  • Cash plans - are providers listening?

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Cash plan providers and intermediaries are torn over whether the sector needs more claims transparency. Sam Barrett finds the arguments evenly balanced

  • Communication and education key to stopping levelling down

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Advisers believe communication and education are the key factors that will minimise levelling down, according to research from Aegon.

  • Customer service - what does it mean?

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    PMI insurers have yet to crack customer service - if they did, advisers could spend more time growing the market says Colin Boxall, director, Advo Group

  • Employers expecting later retirement

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Employees are expecting to take more personal responsibility for their pensions over the coming years as the recession puts significant dents in many peoples’ retirement plans, according to research by Towers Watson.

  • Exit strategy option key to Chase Templeton growth plan

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Isle of Man based Chase Templeton Group has bought Jigsaw Healthcare, the Cheshire based PMI specialist. This is the second acquisition for Chase in recent weeks following its purchase of Healthcare Quotations at the beginning of April.

  • FSA rumoured to be considering new 'decency test' for Retail Distribution Review

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    The FSA is contemplating enforcing an industrywide figure for adviser and consultancy charging of around 3 per cent initial and 0.5 per cent ongoing, according to a source close to the regulator.

  • FSA's Bradford decision shows switching risk

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Advisers engaged in pension switching advice should exercise extreme caution following the FSA’s decision in the Bradford case, warns Hargreaves Lansdown.

  • Group risk sector risks falling within scope - Wheatcroft

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Uncertainty remains as to whether group life or income protection products offered through flex or voluntary schemes could be caught within the Retail Distribution Review, warns Swiss Re.

  • Having something

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

  • Hidden benefits

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Group income protection does more to promote an ability-diverse workforce than ill-health early retirement pensions, says Paul Avis, sales and marketing director at Canada Life Group Insurance

  • Highway robbery on the quiet

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    The public would be outraged by the changes to state pension if only they knew what it was costing them, says Teresa Hunter

  • Holiday reading

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    The RDR may appear to be creating complexity by the minute, but workable models are also beginning to emerge

  • IFAP's David Elms dies after short illness

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Tributes have been paid to IFA Promotion’s former chief executive David Elms who died of cancer last month.

  • In search of a workable model

    4 May 2010

    With the RDR set to abolish commission, Gill Wadsworth investigates how new distribution models will develop

  • Keeping up the pressure

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Pensions risk slipping off the political agenda after the election. John Greenwood finds Joanne Segars, chief executive of the NAPF determined they do not

  • L&G goes live with regular premiums into company Isa

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Legal & General’s regular contribution ’WorkSave Isa’ has come on stream for the new tax year, with a number of employers now offering the arrangement to their staff.

  • Money worries add to high cost of presenteeism

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Employers should not ignore the impact of sickness presence - working when ill- as it relates to lower performance, higher sickness absence, higher work-related stress and poorer psychological wellbeing.

  • Problems coming home to nest

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    A new RU64 test for Nest is unworkable. We need a rethink on the interaction between Nest and existing provision says Paul Goodwin, head of pensions at Aviva

  • THE BIG QUESTION

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    “If commission is to be banned on the setting up of new GPPs from 2012, should providers be permitted to pay it on existing ones?”

  • The corporate agenda

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Advisers, employers and staff will all ultimately lose out by splitting pension commission

  • The Skoda syndrome

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    The DWP report on workplace pension AMCs has put the spotlight back on active fund management charges. Paul Farrow finds as many voices against as for

  • UK plc disenchanted with pension policy-makers

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    The general election’s outcome will make no difference to UK pensions policy, according to the majority of employers responding to a survey by Punter Southall.

  • We deserve to be paid, say pension fund trustees

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Two thirds of UK occupational pension fund trustees believe they should be paid to reflect the ever-increasing pensions expertise they are now required to have, a study has found.

  • Widows revving up for wrap race

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Scottish Widows will start piloting its new corporate wrap proposition with a large employer before the end of the summer.

  • Wrap race off the blocks

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    With providers jostling for position in the corporate wrap space, John Lappin assesses the runners and riders

  • Wrapped up and ready to go

    1 May 2010 Corporate Adviser

    Scottish Widows is first to be able to demo a working corporate wrap, and employees will like it, says Ian McKenna, director of the Financial Technology Research Centre

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