Friday 27 January 2012

January 2012 issue

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Leap forward

The new NAPF chairman, Mark Hyde Harrison, looks ahead

Since I became chairman of the National Association of Pensions Funds (NAPF) in late October, pensions have never been out...
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Analysis

POLITICAL STAGE Sharing the pain

Could free TV licences and free bus passes be axed for millionaires? Ceri Jones, financial journalists reports

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg believes that means testing benefits such as free bus passes and TV licences, currently...
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POINTS OF LAW Season of excess

Our legislators have been overindulging in regulation again says Robin Ellison, Pinsent Masons

The whole point of a winter festival is to overdo it. Certainly in the northern climes, the grey skies and short days make...
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PENSION PREDICTIONS 2012 On your marks

Will 2012 see an Olympic leap forward in pensions provision? Editor, Stephanie Hawthorne asks the great and the good for their predictions

Threats and opportunities John Ball, head of DB pensions consulting at Towers Watson Between July and November 2011, there...
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INVESTMENT BRIEF Making ends meet

As the Chancellor saves £60bn by raising the retirement age earlier, pension providers are lagging behind, says Anthony Hilton, Evening Standard

The most telling figure in the Autumn Statement delivered by Chancellor George Osborne in November was that extending the...
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Surveys

SURVEY GSIPPs Are you a groupie?

Financial journalist Allison Plager explores the popularity of group self invested personal pensions as an employer sponsored pension scheme

Flexibility comes at a price – or at least it does when pensions are involved. Defined contribution (DC) schemes are...
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