All articles by Employee Benefits – Page 142
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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 ...
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Rethinking Retirement
By Henry CobbeThe new pensions freedoms that came into force this April allow much more flexibility on how to invest for and in retirement.This flexibility is welcome and overdue. It also means that advisers have a more important role than ever in helping their customers navigate the multi-dimensional world of ...
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Is control of your business at risk?
Ask yourself:If a co-owner died or suffered a critical illness, is the control of your business under threat?If the worst happened, what would your family receive?If it was you who died, would your family receive a fair value for your share of the business?Here’s some more questions to consider:What is ...
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The case for international diversification (Investment Insight)
By Global Equities Team, AberdeenThe benefits of investing internationally have been well documented and yet investors have continued to invest a disproportionate amount in stocks listed on their home market. This phenomenon, termed ‘home-bias’, became apparent following the most recent global financial crisis. Starting in the US with sub-prime mortgages ...
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Company sick pay – new findings
The insurer rightly points to the self-employed and those on zero-hours contracts as the grouping most exposed to this issue. Yet that overlooks that many employers – often established businesses with sizable workforces – offer nominal or no sick pay cover to their employees. And many more have a sick ...
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Are auto-enrolment pension contributions set to go up?
This topic did not feature in the election debate on pensions, yet now that the dust has settled on a new majority administration Conservative government, and indeed a new pensions minister in the form of Dr Ros Altmann, we suspect that this subject will soon rise towards the top of ...
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Research reveals surprising support for increases to AE contributions levels
The survey of more than 200 senior HR and finance professionals found that more than three in four (76 per cent) employers believed that an increase in pension contribution levels should be made. Only 15 per cent of respondents felt that no increase was necessary.The findings also reveal that 85 ...
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The luck of the Irish (Investment Insight)
By Richard Dunbar, Investment Solutions, AberdeenIn October 1997, McInerney Holdings plc debuted on the Irish bourse. With a prospectus boasting of strong demand for Irish housing, rising employment and favourable demographics, what could possibly go wrong?Well a few years later we found out, in a letter to shareholders detailing the ...
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Europe outlook: Greek gridlock and Italian banks
By Rob Burnett, Investment Director, Head of European EquitiesAs investors await a resolution of Greece’s repayment difficulties, we anticipate a period of consolidation in the European market over the next few weeks. Our base case is that the Greek government and the European Central Bank (ECB) will come to a ...
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Loomis Sayles US Equity Leaders Fund: concentrated on high-quality growth stocks
Click link to view full videoPortfolio manager Aziz Hamzaogullari talks about the unique style he brings to growth investing, shares examples of companies that meet his growth criteria and explains the importance of fundamental research in a concentrated fund.
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Large-cap growth alpha thesis: seeking risk-adjusted excess returns
By Aziz V Hamzaogullari, CFA, Large Cap Growth Portfolio Manager, and Hollie C Briggs, CFA, Large Cap Growth Product ManagerFor mutual fund investors and managers of large pensions or endowments, a major challenge is to identify those portfolio managers who are most likely to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns in the ...
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Emerging Markets: Some are more vulnerable than others (Economic Insight)
By Paul Diggle, Economist — Investment Solutions, AberdeenWhich emerging markets (EMs) are most at risk from a strong US dollar? The simple answer is those that are highly indebted, are commodity dependent and have inflation problems. Russia, Brazil, Malaysia and Turkey are among the most vulnerable on these measures, although ...
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The good old days
While there are exceptions, the UK, along with most of its trading partners, appears to have moved past the eye of the global economic recession storm. While most countries’ economies are now recovering, the rate of recovery is slow and not expected to speed up significantly any time soon. With ...
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Buck Consultants at Xerox launches pension platform for employers
John Deacon, head of corporate solutions, said: “Individuals in DC schemes now have more choice than ever on how and when they take their retirement savings. It’s essential that employers are offering a means for employees to really engage with their retirement planning throughout their working life and take advantage ...
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Conflicting growth and inflation signals (Economic Insight)
By Lucy O’Carroll and Paul Diggle, Investment Solutions, AberdeenGlobal bond yields have backed up in recent weeks, with a recovery in oil prices partly to blame. There is scope for continued volatility in bond and other asset markets in the months ahead as they respond to potentially conflicting growth and ...
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Will the government listen to its new pensions minister?
Her first major task will be to keep the Treasury’s hands off the pension piggy bank. Not an easy task as Steve Webb found out. Since 2006, we have had a lifetime allowance: a ceiling on the amount of tax-privileged pension savings any one individual can accumulate. The recent coalition ...
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Coping with cancer — a nurse’s story
According to recent statistics from Cancer Research UK, one in two people* born after 1960 in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. The good news is that more people than ever are beating cancer. Now 50 per cent survive for 10 years or more*.A cancer diagnosis ...