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The financial wellbeing department
Mark Futcher and Jonathan Watts-Lay, director at Wealth at Work offer their own compelling insights into the changing face of the retirement landscape in this int...
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Mutual deferred shares – a panacea to the sector’s difficulties?
In August HM Treasury issued draft regulations that will enable mutual insurers to raise capital under the powers in the Mutuals’ Deferred Shares Act of 2015. We ...
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Simply the best . . . estimate
As Solvency II regulations settle and 2016 year end approaches, insurers have the chance to draw breath and take pride in the past few years work. But do the assu...
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The Greek Gods of employee wellbeing
We are standing at the forefront of innovation in the wellbeing arena, discarding the old fashioned blanket approach to benefit provision in favour of unique solu...
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Analytics Maturity: Dastardly data and despicable solicitors
UK primary solicitors insurance is a battleground. The large claims continue to stress the scant premium pool. Unrated carriers continually enter the battlefield...
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Dividend block – a post-Brexit vote reality?
Adam Poulson explains how an increase in pension scheme deficit can prevent a company from paying planned dividends.
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PPF levy – third triennium proposals
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has given an early indication of the changes that it intends to make as part of its three-yearly review of the PPF levy rules, w...
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VAT on pension costs - part 4: inscrutable force meets immovable deadline
HMRC has been considering for some time how to change the way in which VAT on DB pension scheme costs is reclaimed by UK employers, and with a third extension on ...
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HMRC announce end to new Scheme Reconciliation Service requests
HMRC announced on 5 August 2016 that they would not accept any new requests for new data to be provided through the Scheme Reconciliation Service (SRS), but what ...
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Larger with-profits funds generate greater ROI than their smaller rivals
Our annual report on with-profits investment performance and strategy contains information on one-year returns over 2015 and trends in asset allocations. This bl...