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Microsoft earmarks $1.5bn for Yahoo! staff

News and two Detroit-based pension funds. Microsoft plans to set aside $1.5bn for employee retention at Yahoo! should it succeed in its unsolicited buyout bid for the internet search pioneer, according to court documents in a shareholder lawsuit cited...

Tags: staff, yahoo, microsoft

[30 Apr 2008]

IT at fault: Millions pay wrong tax amount

News Our staff will have access to all of an employee's pay, tax, national insurance and pension information which will be all in one place. Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs has promised to fix its computer systems after it was found to have incorrectly...

Tags: nao, tax, hmrc

[02 Apr 2008]

Pension Provider Boosts Security, Replaces Virtual Private Network With Secure HTTP

whitepaper Based in Zeist, the Netherlands, PGGM manages about £90 billion (U.S.billion). For years, employees had used a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to connect to IT resources from remote locations. However, the VPN introduced several security risks.

Tags: application servers

[23 Mar 2008]

Insurance Firm Uses Virtualization to Streamline Server Provisioning, Drive Agility

whitepaper In business since 1917, today Alecta is the largest occupational pension provider in Sweden. The company's data center, located at headquarters in Stockholm, houses more than 100 older, underutilized servers.

Tags: application servers, virtualization, virtual, operating system

[29 Feb 2008]

Pension Fund Boosts Productivity as Employees Collaborate in Real-Time

whitepaper PGGM is the Netherlands' second largest pension fund, providing pension packages to more than 2 million former and current employees in the healthcare and social work sector. The company has 1,000 employees, who work in four buildings in Zeist, the...

Tags: application servers

[19 Feb 2008]

SAP Business Communications Management Helps Streamline Customer Service and Cut Costs

whitepaper Pension Fennia had been using a traditional PBX-based telephony switch, but the system's capacity was no longer sufficient for the company's needs. The Finnish Mutual Insurance Company Pension Fennia - headquartered in Helsinki ?

Tags: telephony systems - pbx

[08 Feb 2008]

Stolen M&S laptop contains 26,000 pension details

News Retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) could face prosecution if it does not comply within two months to the overhaul of its data security after losing 26,000 employees' pension details. Names, addresses, national insurance numbers and information about...

Tags: ico, data loss, laptop theft, marks and spencer

[25 Jan 2008]

HMRC lose 6,500 pensioners' details

News Details on the cartridge included names, addresses, national insurance numbers and pension contributions, according to Graham Kettleborough, chief executive officer of Chesnara, the parent company of Countrywide Assured.

Tags: hmrc, lost, data, pensions

[19 Dec 2007]

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Improves Financial Securities Reference Data

whitepaper Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (Teachers') is the manager of a pension fund for Ontario's active and retired teachers and is an active global investor. Teachers' had systems in place to automate and validate securities feeds.

Tags: application servers

[18 Dec 2007]

Gov't not trusted with public data

News The Driver and Vehicle Agency in Northern Ireland admitted to losing more than 6,000 motorists' details in the post, Norfolk police admitted losing the details of dozens of prisoners and Sefton Primary Care Trust sent the salary and pension...

Tags: data, dva, hmrc, gov

[14 Dec 2007]

Screen Actors Guild PPHP: Synchronizing Business & IT

whitepaper This webcast shows how the HP BladeSystems helps more than 40,000 actors and their dependents who rely on the SAG-PPHP to manage common funds that provide pension and health benefits.

Tags: data center

[13 Dec 2007]

Top 10 security stories of the year

News After losing an unencrypted CD containing the personal pension details of 15,000 people, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) went on to lose the details of 25 million child benefit recipients after two password-protected CDs were sent unrecorded and...

Tags: security, storm worm, hmrc, data breach

[13 Dec 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 30.11.07

Round-Up To go with their 30 days holiday a year and non-contributable pension schemes. Life is full of little ironies and it's the teeny tiny ones that truly delight the Round-Up. One little irony this week is that HMRC employees are apparently so stressed...

Tags: data, apple, steve jobs, hmrc

[30 Nov 2007]

Pensions details on lost CD not encrypted

News A lost compact disc containing the personal pension details of 15,000 people was not encrypted. One form of pension payment is an Age Related Rebate (ARR). Funds are paid into the accounts of individuals' pension providers by HMRC electronically...

Tags: hmrc, pension, data, life

[07 Nov 2007]

PGGM Realizes Considerable Cost Savings in Human Resources and Payroll Processes

whitepaper The company's pension fund provides former and current employees in the healthcare and social work sector with a comprehensive and wide-ranging pension package, at as low a price as possible. PGGM manages the financial future of more than 1.9...

Tags: hr, peoplesoft, flexibility, administration

[02 Nov 2007]

Pensions info goes electronic today

News From today, registered pension scheme administrators will have to file a number of documents with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) electronically.silicon.com Financial Services Applications to register a pension scheme, registering pension scheme...

Tags: law, financial services, hmrc, pension

[16 Oct 2007]

Unified Messaging Saves Pension Fund Employees Hundreds of Hours a Year

whitepaper PGGM is the second largest pension fund in the Netherlands, providing pension packages for 2 million former and current employees working in the healthcare sector. Many of its 1,000 employees spend several hours each week commuting by car.

Tags: application servers, employees, mail, voice

[28 Sep 2007]

Defined Contribution Pension Site and Application Is Streamlined

whitepaper InvestLink, a major technology provider to the Defined Contribution industry, was outgrowing its existing system, and decided on a redesign to meet its immediate and long-term needs. After finding that an Oracle-based solution would have cost more...

Tags: application servers, productivity, scalability, sql

[14 Sep 2007]

Taxman warns on e-pensions deadline

News With mandatory e-filing for registered pension schemes only a month away, the tax office is urging pension scheme administrators to make sure they're ready. From 16 October, pension scheme administrators will have to submit some types of...

Tags: tax, online, hmrc

[13 Sep 2007]

Administradoras de Fondos de Ahorro Previsiona

whitepaper Uruguay's four Pension Fund Administrators - Republica AFAP, Afinidad AFAP, Union Capital AFAP, and Integracion AFAP - began operating in 1996. The company wanted to optimize the processes of individual accounts and investment portfolios of the...

Tags: database management, oracle database, investment, administration

[05 Sep 2007]

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