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...Handpainted in situ, the American-born designer’s delicate works have graced the bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens of clients including Alice Temperley and Kate Moss....
...Sign up here with one click Nick Wyatt, GlobalData’s head of research for travel and tourism, said that smaller players such as LateRooms and Super Break were struggling to compete with the multibillion...
...McNally became obsessed with its earworm of a melody and gave it a setting that starts like a lost collaboration between Miles Davis and Alice Coltrane, moves through appropriately Protean musical shifts...
...“It sends a really unfortunate message to employees and also an unfortunate message to the market,” warned James Colegrave, pension consultant at Watson Wyatt....
...John Ball, head of UK pensions at Watson Wyatt, advised that those considering transferring out of a final salary scheme should act soon, as pension scheme trustees might start reducing transfer values to...
...Andy Sanders, senior consultant at Watson Wyatt, said the rise in sales was “good news” for consumers, as it gave them more options to maximise their income from pension savings....
...Figures from Watson Wyatt to be published on Wednesday will show that sales grew nearly 8 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared to the last quarter in 2008....
...“The third-way product concept is still completely viable – it’s just whether people are happy to pay the costs,” said Andy Sanders, a senior consultant at Watson Wyatt....
...A recent report from Watson Wyatt said that the use of default funds remained “stubbornly high”....
...Some defined benefit schemes have it contractually written in that a “good leaver” – someone departing voluntarily – should receive better terms than a “bad leaver”, according to Mick Calvert at Watson Wyatt...
...referred to as long-term performance plans, or L-tips, have grown more popular than share option schemes in recent years and are seen as more stable, according to Sue Bartlett, a pay consultant at Watson Wyatt...
...Watson Wyatt, a consultancy, believes some people may have already left it too late, pointing the finger at pension providers being very slow to respond to requests for information....
...In January, Watson Wyatt said as many as 40 per cent of people who buy an annuity could qualify for an enhanced annuity....
...Mike Williams, a strategy consultant at Watson Wyatt, the financial manager, suggests that in the current economic climate, it makes more sense to have a wrap....
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