Public sector workers are making a stand, State Pension is under threat and world markets are in disarray. Newspaper headlines are full of one pension scare after another! So will there be enough in the pension kitty when you eventually come to retire? You should be concerned! After all you work long and hard enough…
Month: December 2011
Benefit from the success of your business
If you are running a successful business how can you use that to generate financial security in retirement? There are a range of potential solutions that will provide both you and your employees with tax efficient retirement benefits. Stakeholder arrangements and group pension plans for your colleagues and employees are both an attractive recruitment tool…
Flex Benefits – providing the right package
More and more employers are aware that a good salary alone is not enough to attract and retain the best staff. Companies realise that offering the right benefits package is essential whilst employees are demanding greater flexibility from their package. Employers planning to introduce a flexible benefit package may also provide a solution for the…
Could longer life expectancy be the death of pensions?
Increasing life expectancy, new accounting standards, regulatory changes and the continued volatility surrounding scheme deficits have all contributed to make Defined Benefit pension schemes a major corporate headache for many companies. As a result many employers are looking at ways of reducing the exposure to risk that the pension scheme poses, ranging from…
The pensions timebomb
Falling markets could devastate the retirement incomes of a generation – but there are ways to reduce the pain.
Plummeting stock markets have dashed the plans of more than 100,000 people in risky money-purchase pensions planning to retire in the next year.
Worst hit are people approaching retirement who saved in old-fashioned personal pensions that do not protect funds against stock market volatility.