Pensions

Tata Expands Partnership with Life & Pensions Provider, Phoenix Group

3 December 2018 // 0 Comments

Tata Consultancy Services, a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, today announced an expansion of its ongoing 12-year old partnership [...]

Budget 2018: ABI, RAC and BIBA Reaction to IPT Freeze

29 October 2018 // 0 Comments

For the insurance industry the Budget was something of a non-event, with no change announced in Insurance Premium Tax. On the upside, there was no rise, but on the downside [...]

Aspirin effect equivalent to eradicating smoking says RMS

2 April 2013 // 1 Comment

Financial modelling experts have confirmed the potential impact of daily Aspirin doses on life expectancy and said UK pension liabilities could rise by £100bn. Recent [...]

Top 10 predictions for UK Budget; Grant Thornton

7 March 2012 // 0 Comments

THE UK CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer George Osborne will deliver his spring budget on 21st March and Francesca Lagerberg, Head of Tax at business and financial adviser Grant [...]

Referral fees – cash in while you can

1 June 2011 // 1 Comment

Understandably the insurance industry reacted negatively to the news, but in the end cold, hard cash did the talking some days later. on 31st May, stock market analyst Collins Stewart was bullish about the prospects of FTSE 100 darling Admiral Insurance precisely because of the LSB's protectionist stance. Referral fees are to continue and Admiral will carry on earning a tidy sum from them; a fact that won't have gone unnoticed by the many pension funds with holdings in the motor insurer. [...]

Something for personal injury lobbyists in 2011?

7 December 2010 // 1 Comment

It took the insurance trade media a couple of weeks to notice that the Discount Rate was officially under review but this certainly got the defendant lobby talking amongst themselves with the actuaries pulling out their calculators first off. [...]