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Pensions

  • Insurers fear a £1bn blow from pensions cap as DWP insists saver benefit

    August 19, 2014

    Insurers face a £1bn hit from the new pension fund fee cap which comes in next year, Royal London claimed yesterday – five times above the £200m cost the government predicts over the coming decade. However, the mutual is likely to make little headway complaining about the fees. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) [...]

  • Reformed pensions can provide an alternative to the payday lenders

    August 17, 2014

    For millions of households, the most significant risk to financial security lies in their lack of any form of a short-term cash account on which they can draw in the event of an emergency. The consequence of this lack of reserves, for some, is that a financial shock (a suddenly disrupted income, or an unexpected [...]

  • Aviva weathers pensions storm as bulk annuity sales rocket up

    August 8, 2014

    Aviva was one of the top risers on the FTSE 100 yesterday, following publication of its half-year results. Its shares rose almost three per cent after reporting that operating profit for the half-year period was up four per cent to £1.05bn. The strong results prove Aviva is weathering the storm created by chancellor George Osborne [...]

  • Japan pension fund rumours boost markets

    August 8, 2014

    JAPANESE stocks swelled yesterday on reports that the country’s colossal public pension fund was now preparing to make a significant move into domestic equities. The Nikkei, which had dropped during the day, jumped upward around an hour before the end of trading, finishing at 15,232.27, a rise of 0.48 per cent. The Topix index, which [...]

  • Forget pensions: We need radical Isa reform to really tackle the UK savings crisis

    August 4, 2014

    The UK’s pensions crisis is no longer looming. It’s here. We are dangerously over-heating, and millions of British households, who are simply not saving enough for later life, face a bleak financial future – unless there is swift, radical action. UK adults need and deserve a solid framework that will help them save and plan [...]

  • Pensioners warned not to splash all their cash on a Lamborghini as Treasury unveils pension rules

    July 21, 2014

    Pensioners tempted to splash all of their cash in one go on a new Lamborghini are being warned they would face a tax bill of £63,000, ahead of today’s confirmation from the government that it will push ahead with the biggest shake-up of the pensions industry in a century. Research by financial services provider NFU [...]

  • Thousands walk out over pay and pensions

    July 10, 2014

    THOUSANDS of public sector workers across the country walked out on strike yesterday in dispute over pay and pensions. In the capital, teachers, firefighters and other public sector staff marched on Trafalgar Square. Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude thanked staff who did not walk out, adding that estimates suggest half a million people did.

  • Wall Street-backed insurers and L&G buy out captains’ pensions

    July 10, 2014

    Nearly 40,000 pensioners from the shipping industry have been insured by a Goldman Sachs and Blackstone-backed life company and Legal & General for £1.3bn. Rothesay Life, which is owned by the Wall Street giants, and the UK insurer have bought out members of the Merchant Navy Officers’ Pension Fund, which was founded in 1938 to [...]

  • Rising UK house prices give pensioners a boost

    July 8, 2014

    Soaring house prices and the strong pound have boosted UK pensioners’ standard of living at home and abroad, a raft of new data showed yesterday. For expats living in the Eurozone, the basic pension increased by nearly 10 per cent in the past year, according to an analysis by Prudential. The strengthening pound pushed expats’ [...]

  • Pensions body opposes Sports Direct pay plan

    June 30, 2014

    SPORTS Direct faced further calls yesterday to withdraw its proposed bonus scheme to reward its founder Mike Ashley, ahead of a planned shareholder meeting tomorrow. Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) said it had urged its members to vote against the 2015 bonus share scheme, joining similar calls from the Association of British Insurers and [...]

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