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1 September Corporate Adviser

  • A united front

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Declan White finds that a concerted effort is needed to ensure the right outcome for the Group Risk market when the default retirement age is removed.

  • ABI calls for £10,000 minimum for auto-enrolment

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Only those earning £10,000 a year or more should be automatically enrolled into Nest or qualifying pension schemes, according to the ABI.In its response to the DWP’s consultation Making Auto-Enrolment Work the insurer body says those earning less should be allowed to opt in, but not be signed up automatically.

  • Britons 'not prepared' for retirement

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Just 5 per cent of non retired British adults aged 55 and over feel ’fully prepared’ for retirement, according to the latest Retirement Nation Report from MGM Advantage.This is a dramatic drop from before the recession when, in 2008, 39 per cent felt fully prepared for the financial implications of retirement.

  • Bupa introduces hourly rounding

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Bupa Cromwell Hospital is introducing hourly rounding, a new nursing concept which guarantees that patients will receive a proactive visit from a nurse at regular hourly intervals, in addition to their usual patient duties.

  • Cash plans - the myths and facts

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    By Mike Wagg Head of Intermediary Sales at Simplyhealth

  • Cheseldine leaves Hewitt for LCP

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Andy Cheseldine, the high profile consultant in Hewitt Associates’ DC team is understood to be leaving the firm to join Lane Clarke & Peacock.Cheseldine will be holding a similar role at LCP, and his move is said to be amicable, and is understood not to be related to Hewitt’s merger with Aon. He joined Hewitt from Watson Wyatt in 2005, where he spent eight years as a senior consultant.

  • Companies back 'Big Society', according to Simplyhealth research

    1 September Corporate Adviser

  • Employees suffer in silence rather than tell their boss

    1 September Corporate Adviser

  • Expect evolution not revolution

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    The recommendations from John Hutton’s report will not be as dramatic as one might expect, says Teresa Hunter

  • Former Aegon UK fd joins Zurich

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Zurich Financial Services has appointed Bill Robertson to the position of Chief Life Actuary. He succeeds Nigel Masters, who left Zurich at the end of 2009, to concentrate on his UK-based duties as President of the Institute of Actuaries. Robertson will be responsible for continuing the evolution of group-wide Life Actuarial toward becoming a global function. He will report to Dieter Wemmer, CFO Zurich, and to Joachim Masur, CFO Global Life, and will be located in Zurich.

  • Higher rate tax relief gone completely within 2 years says research fellow behind £40,000 annual limit

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Higher rate tax relief on pension contributions is likely to be abolished altogether within 24 months, says Michael Johnson, the research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies whose radical reform proposals have recently gained traction at the Treasury. Johnson, the author of two ground-breaking reports published by the centre-right CPS think tank, believes it is more likely than not that tax relief at rates above 20 per cent will be abolished altogether, potentially as quickly as ...

  • Ill wind for early retirement

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Reducing tax relief on pensions could precipitate a move from ill health retirement to income protection, says Carlos Correia, senior consultant at Lane, Clark & Peacock

  • Keeping a sense of perspective

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Lehman’s collapse continues to reverberate

  • Know your customer

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Customers are for life, not just your next bonus says Martin Hayward, non-executive adviser to PensionDCisions and former director of strategy and futures at Dunnhumby, the analytical firm behind Tesco’s Clubcard

  • Lessons of lehmans

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    One of the more positive legacies of the post-Lehmans global financial crisis has been an increased focus on risk, asset allocation and governance, says Paul Farrow

  • New order out of chaos?

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Pensions reviews may look piecemeal at present, but a consensus on a better state pension may be growing, says John Greenwood

  • Off the critical list

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    While the global economy has been on the critical list, the group PMI sector has remained in relatively rude health. But there are still some worrying symptoms, says Sam Barrett

  • Pension pots shrinkage continues

    1 September Corporate Adviser

  • Recognising complexity is the key

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Occupational health should be a key component of effective benefit consultancy, says Dr Mark Simpson, medical director, Axa ICAS

  • Shock resistant

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Lehman’s collapse two years ago may have brought many once great financial companies to its knees, but Edmund Tirbutt finds the group risk industry in robust shape

  • Spousal bypass solution from Lift-Financial

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Lift-Financial has built what it describes as the only adviser-backed website for helping members of trust-based schemes to set up spousal bypass trusts.

  • Supreme sacrifice

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Despite the numerous changes to pensions tax relief, salary sacrifice will be a key tool in coping with auto-enrolment. Stephanie Spicer unravels its complexities

  • Talk to the machine

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Even the worst technophobe can cut hours out of their working day with voice dictation software, says Ian McKenna, director of the Financial Technology Research Centre

  • Tested to the limit

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    The financial traumas of the last two years have taught the pension industry some key lessons in risk, says Gill Wadsworth

  • The Corporate Agenda

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    A European Court decision that VAT is due on retail vouchers has caused concerns about the status of other benefits

  • The pain of relief

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    Explaining to George Osborne how he can solve the nation’s financial woes by targeting the billions the Treasury pays out in higher rate tax relief has pushed Michael Johnson into the spotlight. John Greenwood reports

  • Variable annuity sales approach £450m

    1 September Corporate Adviser

    The value of variable annuity sales rose to £445 million in the first half of 2010, an increase of 34 per cent compared to the 2nd half of 2009, according to research by Towers Watson.

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