All articles by System Administrator – Page 130
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Share Schemes supplement 2004: Flexible Benefits - With added flexibility
Incorporating employee share schemes into flexible benefit plans is an up-and-coming way to encourage employees to take advantage of share savings programmes. In recent years, a number of leading employers, such as Lloyds TSB and AstraZeneca, have started to include share incentive plans (Sips) under their flex brand. Doing so ...
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Orbit upgrades website offering
Online benefits provider Orbit has upgraded its website offering. The new website for employees features a personalised pension calculator, automated email alerts, and a tracker that lets staff know which benefits they are entitled to.
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New international pension guide published
Aspire have published a fifth edition of International pension funds and their advisors. The new edition records the major pension funds in the occupational, industry-wide and public sectors in 50 countries. It also lists around 3000 providers.
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Star publishes paper on flex
Star has produced a new flexible benefits issue paper. The paper, How to make flex a champion for your organisation, will be available at the Employee Benefits Exhibition (6 - 7 October). Themes include implementing flex, promoting the scheme and using flex to achieve organisational goals.
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Lex wheels out website for drivers
Lex has launched a new website for drivers. The site includes car reviews, motoring news, road tests and a route planner.The site is available to everyone, but offer special discounts for Lex company car drivers, such as RAC services, travel deals and holiday car rental.
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Claybrook brings out new pensions administration system
Claybrook has launched a new pensions administration system. Developed over two years, the new system, Compendia, is web-based and can be used as a stand alone system or as part of a integrated benefits soution.
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4th Contact changes name to Star
Technology provider 4th Contact has changed its name to Star. The firmÂ’s total reward and benefits software will still be branded 4th Contact, but the firm that sells the products will be known as Star.
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HR contacts updated in The Personnel Manager's Yearbook 2004/05
Details of over 70,000 HR and personnel contacts can be found in ‘The Personnel Manager’s Yearbook 2004/05’, which has been published by AP Information Services. Its listings also feature managing directors, health and safety managers, IT managers and finance directors from over 11,000 ogranisations, which have more than 100 employees ...
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Lex publishes 2004 'Rough Guide to Company Cars'
Lex Vehicle Leasing has published the 2004 edition of its 'Rough Guide to Company Cars'. The guide has been updated to include the latest tax and safety issues to help employers and drivers comply with duty of care legislation. It also covers topics such as how to identify the best ...
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Motivation supplement 2003: Budget Changes - Little more reason to party
At first glance Gordon Brown's April budget appeared to be a cause for celebration - but employers might want to take a closer look before popping too many champagne corks. In his spring 2003 statement the Chancellor increased the tax-free limits for staff parties and long service awards. The amount ...
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Motivation supplement 2003: Update
Book staff's themed rewards Employees at Penguin are not just motivated by a love of books. Instead, the company uses opportunities arising from its business activities to create a varied and innovative programme, in many instances bringing its titles to life. The programme operates on two main principles: matching benefits ...
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Motivation supplement 2003: Recognition Schemes - Valuing the power of praise and reward
Competing for staff in a tight recruitment market means employee recognition schemes have become more elaborate as companies vie to put together the most attractive employment package. But sometimes a simple approach is best and, used properly, words can be a powerful motivational tool. Although we might not always like ...
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AP Information Services publishes Pension Funds and their Advisors 2003
Details of over 2,500 UK pension funds are contained in 'Pension funds and their Advisors 2003' published by AP Information Services. Its extensive listings feature the most active buyers within the UK pensions market, the top 1,000 pension funds according to capital value and summaries of over 1,000 funds' investments. ...
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Trustees' guide to investment strategy - Spring 2003: Comment
A recent survey has shown that many trustees feel they need more training on strategic asset allocation and investment manager selection. Respondents also felt they don't understand the different approaches to investment. Our twice-yearly guide to investment strategy is for those part-time trustees who take their role seriously but do ...
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Trustees' guide to investment strategy supplement - Spring 2003: News & Views
Government needs yet more consultation Much needed pensions simplification is being delayed until next year after the government said that it is carrying out market research on its proposed reforms. A qualitative survey of the green paper proposals on pensions reform, conducted by financial services market research specialist Consensus Research, ...
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Trustees' guide to investment strategy - Spring 2003: Juggling flexibility with market returns
The stock market's current dire performance has concentrated the minds of many trustees on the risks they and their funds may run. Ultimately, it is their responsibility to decide how to mitigate these investment risks, without missing out too much on the upturn - whenever it may come. No-one should ...
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Trustees' guide to investment strategy supplement - Spring 2003: Corporate Governance - Pay attention to excesses
Why should pension funds which are suffering shrinking equity investments allow the chief executives of the companies they invest in to get richer and richer? This is an easy question to answer for most trustees, who this year have been given the chance to check the top executive pay following ...
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Trustees' guide to investment strategy supplement - Spring 2003: Hedge Funds - Peering over the hedge
Many trustees' suspicion at the complex and speculative activities of hedge funds has faded in the face of disastrous equity returns. Three consecutive years of negative equity returns between 2000 and 2002 have left some trustees, in the words of National Association of Pension Funds investment council director Ken Ayers, ...
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News update - Pooled funds fall by 4.4% in Q1/2003
Pooled balanced funds for pension funds fell by 4.4% over the first quarter of 2003 according to analysis from performance measurement firm Russell/Mellon CAPS. Negative returns were noted across all major equity classes, which were only partly offset by positive returns of 5.1% on overseas bonds, 3.1% on index-linked gilts ...
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Financial Advice Supplement 2003: Interview - IFA action must be lent to staff debt
In 2001 a report on financial advice in the workplace was published by the Banham Inquiry. In case you missed it among all the raft of reports published in the past year telling us how we can run pensions and other financial products better, this one said that employers are ...