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Due to an internal promotion, we have an opportunity for a brilliant Financial Services Administrator to join our Cirencester Office. This is a full-time office-based role for someone with experience within the financial services profession. The successful applicant will be an adaptable, creative, self-organising problem-solver who thrives on responsibility and

You may have noticed over recent weeks, months and years that both Huw and Russ have been expanding their brains and adding additional qualifications and experience to their CV’s. Huw is now a Registered Life Planner® and a qualified coach, specialising in money coaching and helping business owners to overcome

We have a job vacancy for an experienced Financial Services Administrator to work in our Cirencester Office.  This role is full time however we will consider a part-time role for an exceptional candidate. The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated, multi-tasker who will thrive as part of a small team

Less than 250 employees More than 250 empoyees The date that an employer will be required to comply with the workplace pension reform is called the “Staging Date”.  This date is determined by the size of the employer’s PAYE scheme.  The staging date is the latest that

If you would like to understand in more detail how the pension reforms will affect you as an employer, the register to attend our informative breakfast seminar on Thursday 18th October 2012. Click here for more details or to register… The staging date is the

The timetable of staging dates is shown below. You will need the last two digits of the employers’ PAYE code Employer by PAYE scheme size or other description Staging date 160-249   1 April 2014 90-159 1

This week the Government have launched a £3.5million advertising campaign in attempt to get the auto-enrolment message across to businesses. Earlier campaigns seem to have failed to reach the intended audience of around 1.3 million employers, with a large proportion of business owners still failing to find out about or

Even if you only employ one other person, then the huge changes to the workplace pension landscape that start rolling out this year will have an effect on your business over the next few years. A range of new responsibilities will fall on employers and will have significant

Big stuff in the news from the FSA today about an index tracking investment philosophy and independence. They seem to have forgotten about their conclusions as to the value of active fund management. The following exchange took place during a hearing of the House Treasury Committee at Westminster on 3rd May 2006.

In October 2018 all business will be automatically contributing 3% of their eligible jobholders qualifying earnings into a workplace pension. In addition eligible employees will be paying 5% of their own salary into a workplace pension. Non-eligible jobholders can elect to opt in to auto-enrolment, whilst entitled workers can

Here are the top ten terms you now need to include in your business vocabulary to ensure you know your way around the impending workplace pension reforms: Staging Date Each employer will be given a date from which they will have to comply with the workplace pension reforms. This

Changes to pension legislation have become a bit like buses: nothing for ages then two come at once.  That’s a bit unfair on buses though because to be honest changes to pensions have occurred almost annually since April 2006. Who can forget 6th April 2006? A – Day, pension

On 1st October 2011 compulsory retirement was abolished, with employers no longer able to force mandatory retirement at 65.   Employees can now work beyond this age if they wish without being forced into retirement. Although the charity Age UK have welcomed the change in legislation they still believe that age discrimination is prevalent in

Today I spent a few minutes looking at our digital reach dashboard.  This shows us what’s hot and what’s not in our online channels in the last month.  The numbers from July made some interesting reading… 24.3% of traffic from Google were from people looking for us – Proposito