All articles by System Administrator – Page 131
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Financial Advice Supplement 2003: Theory - Staff need financial advice more than ever before
The arrival of independent financial advisers (IFAs) in the workplace coincided with changes to pensions legislation and the introduction of complex executive and employee share schemes. Just as employers sometimes struggle to get to grips with such issues, so employees need someone they can trust to unravel the financial mysteries ...
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Following 2000 fuel crisis, 59% have considered buying diesel
With 86% willing to pay the additional cost for a more efficient vehicles this figure looks set to rise. ¨ For more information contact the marketing department at LeasePlan on 01753 802678.
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Citicapital Fleet launches Pocket Car Tax Guide 2002/2003
Citicapital Fleet has launched a new Pocket Car Tax Guide for 2002/2003. It features a scale charge calculator, approved mileage rates, diesel supplements and VAT on private fuel, among others.
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Budget 2002 roundup
A number of Budget announcements had implications for benefits packages.The pensions cap will rise from £95,400 to £97,200 for the 2002/03 tax year, helping high earners save more for retirement.Family-friendly policies may need to be improved after the child tax credit was introduced to help parents afford to stay at ...
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Pensions Supplement 2002 - Reseach: All change - pensions under review
Anecdotal evidence of pension scheme closures may suggest a trend, but without wider research you cannot prove whether this is a pattern or a co-incidental cluster of events. This research aims to put the news stories in context. Our figures show that 98% of employers offer a pension plan to ...
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Pensions Supplement 2002 - Reseach: All change - pensions under review
Anecdotal evidence of pension scheme closures may suggest a trend, but without wider research you cannot prove whether this is a pattern or a co-incidental cluster of events. This research aims to put the news stories in context. Our figures show that 98% of employers offer a pension plan to ...
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Pensions Supplement 2002 - Results at a glance
Do you offer a pension to all or some staff? [sample: all responents] Yes 98% No 1% Pension plans on offer [sample: all respondents] Which of the following do you offer to some or all of your staff? defined benefit, including final salary, (DB) pension scheme all staff: 22% some ...
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Pensions Supplement 2002 - Results at a glance
Do you offer a pension to all or some staff? [sample: all responents] Yes 98% No 1% Pension plans on offer [sample: all respondents] Which of the following do you offer to some or all of your staff? defined benefit, including final salary, (DB) pension scheme all staff: 22% some ...
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Analysis
Pensions Supplement 2002 - Theory: In search of a pensions solution
The papers have gone crazy over pensions. Tabloids that once dismissed pensions as dull are now packed with headlines screaming: 'Death Knell for Final Salary Pensions', and 'Greedy Companies Will See You Starve in Old Age'. And it's hardly surprising, after-all pensions are undergoing one of the biggest transformations since ...
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Pensions Supplement 2002 - Practice: Pension solutions in all directions
It is not often that pension funds manage to grab so many headlines - everywhere from the broadsheets, to the tabloids. The closure of defined benefits (DB) schemes is finally penetrating the public consciousness. Iceland and Ernst & Young announced plans to freeze their DB schemes altogether, while BT, J ...
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Analysis
Pensions Supplement 2002 - Theory: In search of a pensions solution
The papers have gone crazy over pensions. Tabloids that once dismissed pensions as dull are now packed with headlines screaming: 'Death Knell for Final Salary Pensions', and 'Greedy Companies Will See You Starve in Old Age'. And it's hardly surprising, after-all pensions are undergoing one of the biggest transformations since ...
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Analysis
Pensions Supplement 2002 - Practice: Pension solutions in all directions
It is not often that pension funds manage to grab so many headlines - everywhere from the broadsheets, to the tabloids. The closure of defined benefits (DB) schemes is finally penetrating the public consciousness. Iceland and Ernst & Young announced plans to freeze their DB schemes altogether, while BT, J ...
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Flexible Benefits research supplement 2002 - Flexible benefits : the context
Last November Employee Benefits magazine and interactive conducted research into the attitudes and practices of UK employers regarding their benefits packages. The 282 respondents represented all sectors and all sizes of organisation. The results of the research have been written up in two parts. Part one looked at the benefits ...
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Flexible Benefits research supplement 2002 - Voluntary benefits : The popular choice
Voluntary benefits can take flexible benefits to the extreme - allowing employers to offer benefits to suit every taste - if they want to. It's one reason why voluntary benefits can be an ideal first step towards a flexible benefit plan. By merely facilitating discounts for employees, employers can avoid ...
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Flexible Benefits research supplement 2002 - Flexible solutions: When flex is a stretch
When 101 Dalmatians opened at cinemas in 1996 it had a strange side-effect. Suddenly people with tiny top floor flats and full-time jobs tried to convince themselves they could care for a destructive dog that needs endless exercise and sheds hair constantly. Dog lovers rushed into something that cost much ...
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Flexible Benefits research supplement 2002 - Results at a glance
Most common benefits offered in flexible benefits plans [sample: 25 respondents] Season-ticket loan 68% Dental insurance 56% Home insurance 56% Long-term care insurance 48% Legal advice/counselling 44% Company cars 40% Critical illness insurance 40% Share or share option plan 40% Luncheon arrangements/vouchers 32% Group personal pension plan (GPP) 32% Additional ...
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Fleet Management Supplement 2002 - Research: Results at a glance
Attitudes to company cars (Sample: all respondents) Which of the following do you agree with? Cars are seen as part of the overall benefits package 75% Cars are an essential recruitment and retention tool 54% Administering the fleet is increasingly complex 33% We would get rid of company cars if ...
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Fleet Management Supplement 2002 - Strategy : How to review a car policy
It's amazing how two years can sneak up on you. One minute Gordon Brown is announcing tax changes which won't happen for years, and the next minute half the company is up in arms because the CO2 tax rules have hit them hard in the wallet and they want to ...
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Fleet Management Supplement 2002 - Practice: On the road to new fleet solutions
The company car is a benefit bound up as much with prestige as practicality, and the new CO2 tax rules mean benefits managers have a delicate juggling act to perform. The government's main aim is to get company car drivers into smaller, greener models. But many benefits managers baulk at ...
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Fleet Management Supplement 2002 - Research: Employers embrace CO2 tax
The changes to company car taxation will be the issue with the biggest impact on benefits in 2002. The move to making employees pay tax on the basis of the CO2 emissions of the car they drive, rather than on the number of miles they cover, will do for company ...