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This month Exaxe publishes its first print edition of TechLife. TechLife will be published every quarter and is filled with industry news, white papers and information on legislative changes. If you wish to receive a hard copy of TechLife please email marketing <at> exaxe <dot> com with your name and postal address. If you would …

Before anyone gets on their high horse and starts sending emails to the editor of this website (hold your virtual pen, disgusted of Tunbridge Wells), I would like to point out that the missing word in the headline above is “pension”. No doubt, actual expletives were used down in the Department of Work and Pensions …

While there has been a general decline in faith-based worship in the western world, one would have thought that life companies’ faith in the core tenets of their business remained intact. So what are we to make of the news that Aegon is hiving off risk, not to a re-insurer but to a bank? Aegon’s …

The European Commission has finally released its long awaited white paper on pensions, which comes with a string of proposals both for national and EU-wide changes to the pension landscape. The paper addresses the issue of longevity and its effect on the sustainability of pensions, particularly within the deteriorating economic situation prevalent across Europe. The …

The debate across Canada around Pooled Registered Pension Plans is a tad surprising. It seems that many industry insiders are determined to resist change even though the current pension system is not ideal. However, criticism of the PRPP initiative continues to be featured heavily in the press and it is not helping people to feel …

Annuity scandal requires drastic action The joint report by NAPF and CASS Business School into the scandal that is the current annuity market, sets out the problems very clearly but when it comes to a solution, it fades away into the same old proposals which we have tried too many times to have any confidence …

Listening to a back episode of the BBC’s Money Box programme, I came across a discussion on the merits or otherwise of the over 50s plans. The presenter Paul Lewis was reviewing the products with a representative from WHICH. These products are based on the idea that, without any medical checks, over 50s can get …

Canadian premier Stephen Harper may have felt that the best way to introduce bad news to Canada’s pensioners was to travel three and a half thousand miles away to the World Economic Forum in Davos so that he could avoid the resulting flack, but there is no doubt that all of Canada heard about the …