All articles by Employee Benefits – Page 153
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Most talked about news on the website
Charity ShareAction published a league table at the end of January, which ranked the UK’s workplace pension schemes for responsible investment. The BBC and BT were at the top of the table, while Barclays, GlaxoSmithKline and Rolls-Royce were given the lowest scores.”It is incredible that many major pension schemes still ...
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Supplier articleHow the Budget 2014 will impact employers
Find out how key announcements in Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget 2014 will affect benefits:More flexibility to be allowed when taking DC pension savingsGovernment to guarantee free financial guidance for DC pension membersCompulsory pensions annuitisation scrappedEmployer-supported childcare vouchers to goGovernment to consult on four tax simplificationsPersonal allowance increase could impact auto-enrolment ...
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Supplier articleMeet the Employee Benefits Awards 2014 judges
The judging for the 2014 Employee Benefits Awards took place last week. The six panels of judges comprised of:Panel chairs: Debi O’Donovan, editor, Employee BenefitsDebbie Lovewell, deputy editor, Employee BenefitsClare Bettelley, associate editor, Employee Benefits Judges:Carol Baylis, total rewards director, Hitachi Data SystemsGary Brewer, head of reward and organisational development, ...
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Supplier articlePg 10-11 – Interactive – Top Tweets from Employee Benefits Connect
The top tweets at Employee Benefits Connect:@d_ashricky – Reflective mood after EB Connect. Met up with some good networking contacts today and made some more great contacts. #EBConnect@happyflierfrek – Excellent day, came away full of ideas! #EBConnect@hymansrobertson – Had a great day at #EBConnect! Thanks to everyone who came to ...
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Natixis video: Making smarter use of asset classes
Content supplied by Natixis Global Asset ManagementThis video from Natixis Global Asset Management focuses on Active Share. One strategy for the smarter use of equity investments is ensuring you get what you pay for. According to the company, looking at Active Share can give you a better perspective on where ...
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Large-cap growth alpha thesis: seeking risk-adjusted excess returns
Content supplied by Loomis, Sayles & Company — an affiliate of Natixis Global Asset ManagementFor 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 future. Understanding how an investment ...
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Health Shield launches home assistance benefit for corporate members
The non-profit-making Friendly Society has become the first health cash plan provider to include the benefit in its product portfolio, providing enhanced cover for corporate members.The benefit, which will also be rolled out across tailored schemes later in 2014, covers 14 hours of home assistance cover after a pre-planned hospital ...
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Health Shield donates a healthy sum to Beating Bowel Cancer UK
Staff raised more than £4,000 in 2013, which Health Shield has matched — resulting in a total contribution by the Friendly Society of £8,008 to the charity. In total, more than £16,000 has been donated to Beating Bowel Cancer UK.Rachel Thomas, community fundraiser for Beating Bowel Cancer’s North West division, ...
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Interactive Pg 16-17: Top 10 most visited stories on the web
1. Autumn Statement: Basic state pension to increase by £2.95 a week2. Abercrombie staff entitled to guaranteed payments3. Review of the 2013 benefits landscape4. How to measure workplace stress5. How the Autumn Statement will impact employee benefits6. How much do staff need to contribute for a comfortable retirement?7. Autumn Statement: ...
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Interactive Pg 16-17: The month in numbers
£8,844 the average gender pay gap of HR professionals (see page 22)£2.95 a week: the increase in the basic state pension from April 2014. (see Autumn Statement round-up)33% of HR and benefits professionals received pay rises of 2-3% in past year (see page 22)
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Interactive Pg 16-17: Linkedin Discussion Board
Interesting to see you talk about wellness being on the up. The two areas we see ever-increasing levels of activity and spend are anything that relates to more agile and smarter working, and anything and everything that helps talented women.Ben Black, managing director, My Family CareVery pleased the impact of ...
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Pg 16-17: Interactive: Top 10 most visited stories on the web
1. Arsenal Football Club denies paying below living wage2. Royal Mail staff must wait for full shares allocation3. Innocent Drinks staff share £19 million bonus payout4. The Work Foundation report: Absence could be cut by over one-third5. Axa PPP Healthcare research: 48% feel stressed at work6. Challenges around auto-enrolment postponement7. ...
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BMW reflects on EB awards success
Brian Cunningham, general manager – insurance at BMW (UK) answers question about what it means to win two Employee Benefits’ awards.BMW (UK) was awarded the Grand Prix at the Employee Benefits Awards 2013, and was also recognised for its mental health and wellbeing services as winner of best stress management ...
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Pg 16-17 – Interactive – LinkedIn Discussion Board
I totally agree with ‘small data that really matters’. More consideration is sometimes needed to what HR actually wants to analyse or extract and how it will add business value. Big data is not valuable if it takes more time in production than it does in analysis, discussion and action.Natalie ...
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Pg 16-17 – Interactive – Tweets from Employee Benefits Live
Amazing two days at #EBLive2013. Feeling very inspired to start looking at our reward strategy and plan #blueskythinkingEmma Pearson is people adviser, reward at One Stop ShopsGood session at #EBLive2013 today. Also good to see old friends again.Dev Raval is former reward director at BSkyB and VodafoneHR and low #pay. ...
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Pg 16-17 – Interactive – Top 10 most visited stories on the web
1. Employee Benefits Live 2013 speaker slides2. Secondsight research: 32% do not plan to comply with pension auto-enrolment3. Office of Fair Trading publishes DC pensions market report4. Grant Thornton launches salary sacrifice car scheme5. Bank of America extends smoking cessation programme6. Grant Thornton overcomes auto-enrolment postponement challenges7. Barclays launches workplace ...
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Top 10 most read stories last month
1. Government announces Tupe change proposal2. Employers will still be involved in childcare voucher provision3. Hill Dickinson launches salary sacrifice car scheme4. How employers can link benefits strategy to employees’ needs5. Groupon offers staff rewarding benefits deal6. The impact of social trends on flexible benefits plans7. PWC raises partner pay ...
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Pg 18-19 Interactive – Most talked-about news
In her weekly blog, Debi O’Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits, launched a campaign to save the out-of-office autoreply in response to the Financial Times’ Lucy Kellaway’s view that employees should check their work emails while on holiday.I agree. There is nothing that cannot either wait or be dealt with by ...
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Pg 18-19 Interactive – Top discussions from the Employee Benefits LinkedIn group
Which charity should we support through the Employee Benefits Awards 2014?Every year, Employee Benefits selects a charity partner to support through the Employee Benefits Awards.?We would value your opinion on which charity we should support in 2014.??The selected charity should have links to workplace and employee issues. For example, in ...
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Carol Baylis: The role of technology in benefits management
Carol Baylis (pictured), total rewards director at Hitachi Data Systems, will speak at Employee Benefits Live on 26 September about the role of technology in employee benefits management.Employee Benefits asked her a few key questions:1. What has been your biggest challenge in 2013?We have a global request to drive benefits ...