Group Risk

HSBC Bank’s mean gender bonus gap - the difference between the bonus paid to male relevant employees and that paid to female relevant employees – is even bigger, standing at 86 per...

Unum’s employee assistance programme (EAP), provided by LifeWorks, received 12,610 calls in 2017, 70 per cent of which related to mental health issues. A further 14 per cent of callers had legal...

While the UK’s productivity gap is a mammoth problem, the range of tools the group risk industry brings to employers to help tackle it is wide and varied. The tools that insurers...

Arguably the biggest challenge facing the UK economy is the stagnation in productivity that has persisted since the 2008 financial crisis. Figures released last October by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

Debbie Abrahams has been forced to step aside from her role as shadow secretary of state for work and pensions pending an investigation by the Labour Party into claims she has been...

Women make up just 37 per cent of the 11 million people within the target group for auto-enrolment, despite making up 46 per cent of the workforce. This disparity is in part...

Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) has bought SME broker Chartwell Healthcare to create a £200m premium PMI and group risk business. Chartwell is headquartered in Bristol and has 50 employees, specialises in private...

MetLife has appointed its executive vice president James Reid as head of its global employee benefits (GEB) business. He is charged with expanding relationships with global EBCs and other financial organisations, as...

Following publication of the Government’s response to the consultation process on “Improving lives: The Future or Work, Health and Disability” the initial opinions and reactions seemed to suggest a fundamental difference of...

Group risk products should be renamed to more engaging alternatives to make them more understandable and likely to be bought, research from Canada Life Group Insurance suggests. ‘Group life assurance’ has been...