2nd Dec 2008 - abeceder
Up to 9 million people, many of them on low and middle incomes, will get access to a workplace pension, or will be able to save more, now that the Pension Act 2008 has received Royal Assent.
2nd Dec 2008 - Channel 4 News
A pensions body has launched a consultation on how to help people on low and middle incomes convert their pension pot into a retirement income. The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) is looking at ways to help people with the accounts choose and buy an annuity when they retire, as well as exploring..
30th Nov 2008 - The Independent
Lost amid the sound and fury surrounding VAT cuts and tax rises last week was the unveiling of Gateway a government incentive scheme designed to encourage low-income groups to make more financial provision for themselves.
28th Nov 2008 - BBC News World Edition
The government has pledged to add 50 pence to every £1 saved in a national scheme aimed at encouraging the poorest to save.
27th Nov 2008 - FT Adviser
The recession presents new challenges for the savings industry, according to Philip Hammond, Conservative shadow chief secretary to the Treasury.
26th Nov 2008 - This Is Money
The long-awaited Saving Gateway will finally get off the ground in 2010, the Chancellor announced in the Pre-Budget Statement on Monday. The Government will add 50p for every 1 saved in these special cash savings accounts, which will run for two years.
25th Nov 2008 - MoneyNews
The Tax Incentivised Savings Association (TISA) has welcomed the government's pre-Budget report, saying it will benefit savers. According to TISA, the savings incentives announced by the chancellor yesterday, which will see the government contributing 50p for every pound saved in the savings gateway scheme,..
19th Nov 2008 - Mail Online UK
There are growing fears that thousands of savers may have been misled into switching to more expensive or risky pensions. Industry figures show there have been more than half a million transfers into personal pensions and Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs) alone in the past two years.
18th Nov 2008 - Citywire
Support is growing behind a change to the rules governing pension schemes that would allow people to withdraw money early in times of financial hardship.
14th Nov 2008 - Citywire
Life and pensions provider Axa Life has agreed a strategic alliance with Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks which will see the provider take on 129 financial planners in a move aimed at boosting its distribution network.
14th Nov 2008 - Human Resources Magazine UK
This increase in activity is still gaining momentum as more companies look at the options for offloading their pension scheme liabilities, but organisations need to take care to ensure that it is the right option for them and keep an eye on employee relations fall-out from the process.
13th Nov 2008 - FSA
The FSA have announced that TCF will be embedded within their core supervisory work. As a result of this decision, they will not be pursuing one aspect of their previously published strategy the one-off structured sampling of firms and the consequent report in September 2009.
13th Nov 2008 - Webitpr
- 75 per cent of parents are actively investing their Child Trust Fund voucher despite tougher economic conditions starting to hit - The Children s Mutual (http://www.
12th Nov 2008 - Global Pensions
UK - The Department for Work and Pensions is considering options to relax rules which force firms winding up a pension scheme as part of a corporate restructure or demerger to fully cover liabilities.
12th Nov 2008 - Civil Service Network
Chris Pond is an experienced economist, charity activist, campaigner and politician but his timing is definitely suspect. Pond joined the Financial Services Authority in October last year, as the credit crunch got into full swing; the previous month had seen the historic run on Northern Rock.
