‘Promising lead’ or ‘Back to the lab’?
Aon Employee Benefits research
Aon has trialed an apprentice scheme to recruit staff and solve training shortages.
Insurer Aon has been hit with the FSA's largest ever financial crime-related fine after it unwittingly made more than $7m worth of "suspicious" payments to overseas firms and individuals.
Final salary scheme funding jumped back into a £23bn surplus in November - the largest single monthly rise on record, Aon Consulting says.
The Pension Protection Fund has denied allegations it is "systematically overcharging" companies to the tune of millions of pounds on their levy payments.
Gordon Brown's decision to abolish tax relief on dividends to pension funds in 1997 has cost the 200 largest defined benefit pension schemes £20bn, claims Aon Consulting.
Only one in ten companies over the next three years are expected to remove their pension scheme liabilities, suggesting an increase in providers has not boosted business within the bulk annuity market.
Recent volatility in global stock markets, which has seen the FTSE 100 fall 4.4% in three days, has caused UK pension deficits to rise by £11bn, claims Aon Consulting.