Not all UK based companies provide their employees with a pension scheme at the moment and not all employees have access to such a fund join. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, it is a fact that as recently as 2009 only 50 percent of UK employees belonged to ...

For those unfamiliar with the term, a SIPP or Self Invested Personal Pension is, in essence, a pension scheme holding the same tax advantages as other pension schemes, but that provides a higher level of control over how savings are invested. The tax bene...

In the midst of a global financial crisis, GNP maintained the dynamism that has characterised its 110 years and set itself in the vanguard of product innovation and services both for its customers and its distribution channel.GNP is a Mexican insurance co...

According to Stuart Jenkin, Director of Fund Management at Frogmore, the UK-focused property fund manager, the state of the global economy coupled with reduced liquidity available from banks, tax rises (such as the VAT) and the reduction of public expendi...

 Most major market indices have, at best, gone sideways for the past decade. In fact since 1998 investors really haven’t stood a chance. There was the Russian bond default in 1998, tech wreck in 1999, at least two recessions, subprime mortgage ...

It hasn’t been an easy journey, but the Jamaican pensions and insurance industry is slowly finding its feet. Improving financial literacy and a greatly increasing macroeconomic stability also bode well for the future of the Jamaican pensions industry. ...

Pension funds are big players, especially in Brazil where assets under management have soared in recent years. Following the global credit crisis, Brazil was one of the first nations on the road to a sustainable financial recovery: it is now poised to ove...

British insurer Standard Life beat forecasts with a 30 percent rise in first-quarter sales, helped by growth in corporate pensions and in its core retail products, as UK consumers shrugged off economic woes. "What we'd all underestimated was the resili...

The more realistic of us have realised that the days of final salary pension provision are swiftly drawing to a close. What was once regarded as a basic employee’s perk now seems fanciful, and the idea that someone could retire and receive a substantia...