pensions

UNIT TRUSTS and other independent fund managers could benefit from multi-billion pound transfers out of life assurance policies after next April, reports the Daily Telegraph .

Financial advice has a direct impact on the level of savings people make, and could be the key to solving the savings crisis claims new research from Standard Life.

The head of strategy at the Pensions Regulator has been re-elected as the president of the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS).

The Government has dropped plans to issue a blanket ban prohibiting all self-invested pension plans (SIPPs) from holding protected rights.

There is always one thing you can predict about the last week before Christmas - everybody will be making predictions.

BLUE CHIP companies tempted to follow Rentokil Initial's landmark move to water down staff pension rights were warned by unions yesterday to expect fierce resistance, according to the Times .

With just over four months to go until A-Day, 45% of trustees and employers still have not started adapting their pension scheme administration ready for the changes, claims new research by Mercer.

Prudential will be writing to almost half a million customers who are contracted out of the State second pension (S2P) to say they strongly believe they should contract back in for the 2005/2006 tax year onwards.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is "mustering the troops" in an effort to come up with an industry alternative to the National Pensions Savings Scheme (NPSS), and could be up and running by 2007 if approved.

Contingent assets, such as parent group guarantees, will be taken into account by the Pension Protection Fund when calculating a company's risk based levy.