Employee Benefits

FOUR in ten workers fear their pensions provision will not be sufficient for a comfortable retirement, research by JLT Benefit Solutions shows.

AUSTRALIA - The standard of employer-nominated default funds for superannuation savings should be improved and fees brought down, the Australia Institute and Industry Superannuation Network have proposed.

Trustees of the Thorn pension fund have completed a £1bn buyout transaction with Pension Insurance Corporation.

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EMPLOYEES are missing out on more than £5bn a year by failing to join company pension schemes, Prudential says.

ALMOST 70pc of employees believe they will take up auto-enrolment into an occupational pension from 2012, government research claims.

AUSTRALIA - Proposed reforms to the calculation of employer superannuation contributions for income test purposes are too complex and will leave both employers and employees worse off, Mercer says.

AUSTRALIA - The government has rejected a call from leading economists to drop compulsory superannuation contributions to 6% as part of an economic stimulus package.

COMMERCIAL law firm Beachcroft has re-launched its occupational pension scheme for its 1400 employees.

Trustees of the British Regional Airlines Group pension scheme have appointed Mercer as actuarial and investment adviser to its Isle of Man-based pension schemes.