News
Employee Benefits
Medical insurers have welcomed proposals by the Competition Commission (CC) to shake-up the private healthcare market, but hospital groups have reacted angrily, calling them "plainly wrong".
16 January 2014
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Employee Benefits
Employee owned businesses (EOBs) are better at maintaining both top-line financial performance and employment levels than their non-employee owned counterparts, research finds.
15 January 2014
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Employee Benefits
Intercede is establishing a share incentive plan (SIP) for its workforce to help recruit staff.
15 January 2014
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Employee Benefits
Treasury secretary Danny Alexander says there is "more to be done" in boosting the profile of employee ownership and advancing the sector over the longer term.
15 January 2014
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Appointments
Heineken UK has appointed former SixtyOne Consulting manager director Neil Parfrey as interim head of pensions, as Carol Young prepares to move to the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) next month.
15 January 2014
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Defined Benefit
The Public Service Pension Bill has passed its consideration stage in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
15 January 2014
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Admin / Technology
Network Rail has hired Capita Employee Benefits to administer two of its three pension schemes, both of which were previously administered by RPMI.
15 January 2014
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Defined Benefit
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has launched a crackdown on companies using asset-backed contribution structures (ABCs) that reclassify pension obligations as equity instruments in their accounts.
15 January 2014
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Regulation
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has issued fresh guidelines amid concern that many employers have been referring to contractual enrolment as auto-enrolment (AE).
15 January 2014
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Risk Reduction
The British Arab Commercial Bank pension scheme trustees have entered the first whole-of-market medically underwritten buy-in with Partnership.
15 January 2014
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