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...“Pension schemes will now have time to take stock of their financial positions,” said Willis of XPS Pensions Group....
...David Robbins, director with Willis Towers Watson, the professional services firm, said: “The DWP does not explicitly say that it might force employers to divert contributions to a provider of the employee...
...Steve Webb, the former pensions minister whose reforms prompted the GMP data-checking exercise, said these discoveries would have a knock-on effect for the state pension, which could be reduced for some...
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. Views are personal. merryn@ft.com. Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...The start-up’s founder and chief executive, Jonathan Webb, said they are “building a Farming Now movement using proven technology to grow more fresh food with far less resources.”...
...“For most employers these days an absolute red line on pension design is that their costs are fixed in advance, with no balance sheet impact or unwelcome surprises,” said Simon Eagle, a director in Willis...
...Steve Webb, director of policy with Royal London, which lodged the freedom of information request, said there was a concern that those transferring out were being offered cash lump sums on relatively generous...
...“Any increase in the amount of GMP [from the workplace scheme] is likely to lead to a reduction in the state benefit — and vice versa,” said Philip Titchener, senior director at Willis Towers Watson, the...
...The so-called big-three investment consultants of Willis Towers Watson, Mercer and Aon Hewitt, as well as JLT and P-Solve, which are smaller advisers, control 598 of the 805 fiduciary mandates in the UK,...
...Anthony Webb, head of fiduciary management at KPMG, adds: “There was no real consistency in how fiduciary managers chose to report their performance data....
...Over 40 years of saving, he might expect to build a fund of about £165,000 in today’s prices according to Willis Towers Watson projections....
...“By law, the basic state pension and new state pension have to rise at least in line with national average earnings growth,” says David Robbins, senior consultant with Willis Towers Watson, a professional...
...Astronomers hope to use the next generation of telescopes with acronyms such as Cheops, Plato and Tess, as well as the James Webb space telescope that will replace the venerable Hubble, to characterise exoplanetary...
...Anthony Webb, fiduciary management head at KPMG, told FTfm at the time: “The number of mandates won without a competitive tender process remains uncomfortably high.”...
...Responding on Twitter to claims that the deal was a “smash and grab” by the government, Steve Webb, pensions minister, said savings from the lower deferral rate would be used to fund the increased state...
...flexible forms of defined benefit pensions, which will enable employers to offer pensions with a high level of certainty, but with much greater flexibility over the nature of benefits provided,” said Steve Webb...
...Webb’s comments came as advisers echoed concerns that pension providers would begin to cherry-pick business, leading to less competitive deals for members....
...“If we had had a good spring we could have generated enough money to carry us through the summer,” says proprietor Nigel Willis, 51, whose parents founded the business in 1978....
...Phil Willis, Malcolm Bruce, Paul Keetch and Paul Burstow have returned to the backbenches....
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