Origen

An increase in the state retirement age could cause a significant rise in group income protection premiums and may result in changes to scheme design and the level of protection employers can justify, according to several industry experts.

IFA firm Origen has attacked senior executives in large UK companies for protecting their own final salary pension schemes while closing the same pension arrangements to new staff and denying further accrual of benefits to less senior current employees....

There are no surprises in the white paper pension document and it is a small step forward which is probably as much as we could have expected.

The Association of British Insurer's (ABI) alternative to the National Pension Savings Scheme (NPSS) would aslo eliminate the need for advice based interviews, Lord Turner told the Treasury Select Committee today.

Wayne Gibbs, head of mortgages at Origen, says all mortgage intermediaries should now start looking beyond the minimum qualifications required to take part in the regulated market as part of industry-wide attempts to boost skillsets and consumer confidence....

Close to one in three UK employees are opting not to join a company pension scheme, new research indicates.

Canada Life is buying a pension annuity in payment portfolio valued at over £2bn from Phoenix & London Assurance which is owned by closed book with-profits insurer Resolution Life Group.

Origen has done a deal with Resolution Life Group to provide its client base with financial advice and give Resolution a cut of the advice remuneration.

Mike Baggaley has left Aegon-owned IFA group Origen to join Park Row Corporate & Private Clients as its southern regional sales manager.

The integration of the five separate Aegon IFA businesses under the Origen brand will be completed by the year end of first quarter of 2005 by the latest, the provider says.