All articles by Employee Benefits – Page 141
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Finding value in UK equities
By Mark Martin, Investment Director & Head of UK EquitiesRegister for a live update on 9 July at 14.30 with Mark Martin, who will be discussing Chancellor George Osborne’s ‘emergency’ summer budget, the UK equity landscape post May’s General Election and his outlook for the second half of 2015. Mark ...
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Birthstar launches CPD Research Series
Birthstar, a research and advisory firm for asset managers and intermediaries, has launched a CPD research series on rethinking retirement. The research is designed to help advisers navigate the new pension freedoms with their clients.The series is designed to assist with the theory and practice underpinning retirement planning from both ...
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Fit For Work rollout continues…
As you can see on their rollout map, the service is now much more widely available than the initial areas of Sheffield and North Wales. The service is now available in large areas of eastern England, south-east England and much of Wales. So a definite step forward there.That’s the good ...
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Time to diversify
By Mike Brooks, Senior Investment Manager, Investment Solutions, Aberdeen Asset ManagementIn the eyes of many investors, bonds and equities enjoy a domestic relationship much like the man and woman in a traditional Alpine weather house. The female figure comes out with a sunshade when it’s dry, while the man comes ...
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The 175 quadrillion dollar (Investment Insight)
By Richard Dunbar, Investment Solutions, Aberdeen Asset ManagementFor the past few years, I’ve had on my desk a 10 trillion dollar note from Zimbabwe. I’ve used it in presentations, along with notes with similar numbers of zeros from Germany in the 1920s, to demonstrate what debasement of a currency really ...
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UK fiscal policy: Bad debts (Economic Insight)
By Lucy O’Carroll, Chief Economist - Investment Solutions, Aberdeen Asset ManagementPublic debt burdens are now higher in many of the advanced economies than they have been for 40 years. This may not be much of a surprise following a financial crisis in which government revenues fell and welfare spending and ...
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Johnson Fleming's fundraising challenge for CLIC Sargent
They provide clinical, practical, financial and emotional support to help them cope with cancer and get the most out of life.To support CLIC Sargent, the whole company is having a fundraising challenge on Friday 10 July, 12pm–5pm. Staff have been split into eight teams, each with the goal of raising ...
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The Rubik’s Cube: China’s policy trilemma
By Douglas Turnbull, Investment Director, Head of Chinese EquitiesChina faces a 'Rubik’s Cube' policy trilemma, whereby it needs to sustain a minimum acceptable level of growth, deal with issues such as overcapacity and reform the financial system to make it a far more efficient allocator of capital. Given the contradictory ...
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Government's ‘fit note’ fails to deliver five years on
43 per cent of employers say ‘fit note’ not aiding employee return to workMore companies saying the quality of GP advice on fitness for work has deterioratedInsufficient GP and medical professional training remains in use of ‘fit note’GPs and medical professionals not working closely enough with employersOnly low numbers of ...
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Financial education for all
This is the first academic year that financial education has been on the curriculum in schools. According to the Personal Finance Education Group (Pfeg), some teachers have even said that 11 years old is too late to start learning about money, and that children should learn money skills in primary ...
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Yorsipp’s Mark Canning explains a new “default option” for their SIPPs
Why do you think there is a need for a governed Auto Invest option?Across our proposition we seek to bring institutional quality and standards of governance to the retail market. The FCA have been very clear in their guidance on “suitability” of both the SIPP wrapper provider and the underlying ...
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Real stories: Ian, 57, retired
For many people, retirement is about more than just stopping work – it’s a new, and exciting, stage in their lives. These short videos feature real people talking about retirement from their perspectives and explaining how they have been preparing for the challenges and opportunities ahead.Click here for video
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Real stories: Mark, 52, retired
For many people, retirement is about more than just stopping work – it’s a new, and exciting, stage in their lives. These short videos feature real people talking about retirement from their perspectives and explaining how they have been preparing for the challenges and opportunities ahead.Click here for video
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EEF/Jelf Employee Benefits Sickness Absence Survey 2015
Click on the link below to download the EEF/Jelf Employee Benefits Sickness Absence Survey 2015LinksSickness Absence Survey 2015
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Risk – Global Themes in Asset Management
Suitable for private investors as well as advisersBy Aberdeen Asset ManagementDespite the best efforts of some of the brightest minds from the world's top universities, the ability to quantify and measure risk still eludes us.That's because risk is more than just a number. The careful investor needs to consider many ...
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Long termism – Global Themes in Asset Management
Suitable for private investors as well as advisersBy Aberdeen Asset ManagementAmerican academic Walter Mischel conducted one of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology back in the 1960s. Nursery school children were each given a choice: they could have a reward immediately (marshmallows were popular) or, if they ...
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Neptune launches Japan Institutional Fund
By Chris Taylor, Investment Director, Head of ResearchNeptune is excited to announce the launch of the Japan Institutional Fund on 22 June, having disclosed to the market in March its intention to offer the product. The Fund will be managed by the highly-regarded Chris Taylor, Head of Research and manager ...
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Government and employers urged to address increasing mental health issues
Overall sickness absence remains low at 2.2 per centBut long-term absence sees the largest rise in five yearsMental health issues are most difficult to make work adjustments forOnly one in 10 companies provide manager mental health trainingA third of employers rely exclusively on NHS to address long-term absenceFour fifths of ...
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A misguided Shakespearean warning to bond investors
By Brad Crombie, Global Head of Fixed Income, Aberdeen“My grief lies onward and my joy behind” sounds rather like something from a Shakespearean sonnet. And that's because it is.Reading it made me think of the Great Rotation and the mistaken belief that the 30-year bull market in bonds was about ...
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Innovation needed for investing in retirement
By Henry CobbeThe new pension freedoms means that advisers have a key role to play in helping their clients get the retirement they expected. In most cases, that’s unlikely to be a simple choice between cash, drawdown or annuity, but more of a combination of each to match a client’s ...