In Depth

It is typical of the lack of interest and understanding that UK government has shown towards group risk that some of the best potential news the sector has enjoyed for years arose as...

Investors can now invest more easily in productive finance assets since the introduction of the innovative Long-Term Asset Funds (LTAFs). These are regulated open-ended investment vehicles designed to enable investors such as...

In recent decades, individual investors have had a reasonable choice of options certainly in terms of mutual funds and retail pensions. One oft-cited milestone in the UK was the launch of the Friends...

Millions of savers have been brought into the pension system thanks to a successful auto-enrolment strategy that has relied on the power of inertia. But while workplace defaults have proved to be...

Against a backdrop of economic turbulence marked by inflation, surging interest rates, volatile market fluctuations, and unexpected changes to the lifetime allowance in the Budget, the landscape of defined contribution (DC) decumulation...

With all but a handful of countries lifting their pandemic travel restrictions, the world is open for business again. As corporate and expat expectations have shifted, the international medical insurance market has...

Diversity, inclusion and equity — or DE&I — may have become  a buzzword across the financial services industry in recent years, but this relatively new three-letter acronym refers to many age-old and...

When a Chancellor of the Exchequer really wants to pull a rabbit out of the hat, they often turn to pensions. In this year’s Budget, Jeremy Hunt did not disappoint, reducing the...

DATA AND PURPOSE SPECIAL REPORT: IN ASSOCIATION WITH UNUM The recent proliferation of wellbeing options has given employers more data than ever before to shed light on their employees’ wellbeing needs –...

DATA AND PURPOSE: SPECIAL REPORT - IN ASSOCIATION WITH UNUM When it came to putting together a benefits package, it used to be enough to replicate what the competition offered. But, with...