12/12/2014
The Supervisory Board of Daimler AG today decided on an extraordinary contribution to the pension fund of €2.5 billion, split proportionately between the Daimler AG, EvoBus and the Daimler Financial Services companies.
12/12/2014
The £10.8 million deal, which was announced in August, received regulatory approval today.
12/11/2014
The investments – totalling €85m – were made in global unlisted real estate funds and are the Rome-based fund’s first abroad.
12/11/2014
There has been a big increase in demand by pension scheme members for online and mobile app access
12/11/2014
Responding to today’s publication by the FCA of its annuities sales review and retirement income market study, the Financial Services Consumer Panel has called on the FCA to take action to address the persistent problems in the annuities market.
12/11/2014
Schemes risk missing out on competitively priced bulk annuities, says JLT Employee Benefits
12/11/2014
The full 2015 programme will be announced in January
12/11/2014
The scheme agreed to survey members about their views on non-financial factors
12/11/2014
The NOP, a portfolio aimed at real assets and real estate mandates, accounted for 0.2% of the fund’s assets at the end of March this year, around £27m.
12/10/2014
Margaret Snowdon has been re-elected as chairwoman of the The Pensions Administration Standards Association
12/10/2014
Davis review criticises regulator for response to the announcement of a review into life insurance policies that knocked billions off the market values of pension providers
12/10/2014
If that is not the case, QNUPS can be deemed as having been established for tax avoidance.
12/10/2014
More than a quarter of those contacted admitted to having been tempted to accept the offer and some 15% subsequently contacted the fraudsters.
12/10/2014
The total assets under management of 6,057 schemes tracked by the PPF index were 1,233 billion pounds, while liabilities stood at 1,454 billion pounds.
12/10/2014
The boss of the Financial Conduct Authority is to give up his annual bonus in the wake of a pension review story, Sky News has learned.
12/10/2014
Wake-up packs are documents sent to those approaching retirement by pension providers to inform them of their right to buy an annuity, but they have been criticised in the past for being too long, and can often run to 22 pages.
12/10/2014
HM Revenue and Customs has provided further guidance in its Revenue and Customs Briefs on VAT in relation to pension funds management costs and services.
12/10/2014
A new government could destroy the public’s faith in pensions if it reversed the changes announced by chancellor George Osborne in the Budget, the chief executive of platform provider AJ Bell has warned.
12/08/2014
Leading law firm, Irwin Mitchell, has announced that it has appointed DWF’s UK Head of Pensions, Martin Jenkins, to its fast-growing London office.
12/08/2014
Pension schemes would need to identify who is a Scottish taxpayer and then claim different top-ups from HMRC as a result of cross-party proposals for further devolution to Scotland