Mercer

Helm Godfrey has expanded its corporate consultant team in the run-up to auto-enrolment.

Employer contributions have stalled in the last two years, raising concerns that companies will level down under auto-enrolment, a poll reveals.

The Pensions Regulator will give trustees a "clear steer" on acceptable approaches to funding and recovery plans in the spring, Bill Galvin confirms.

There is "scope for tremendous confusion" if trustees try to comply with all of the defined contribution principles and initiatives currently in operation, a consultant says.

Mercer has called on The Pensions Regulator to clarify trustees' role in an economic environment where low gilt yields are distorting funding levels.

Sage UK and Mercer have teamed up to launch a new service to help small and medium-sized firms introduce staff benefit packages.

Analysis of the longevity swap market

The Department for Work and Pensions has admitted it is ‘gravely concerned' over proposals to bring the IORP Directive more into line with the Solvency II.

EIOPA's consultation could impose Solvency II requirements that would send the UK pension system into "limbo", according to Mercer.

The Bank of England yesterday signalled it was ready to pursue more quantitative easing after plunging inflation forecasts, raising further spiralling deficit concerns for schemes.