In Depth

Currencies can be extremely volatile, especially when major political events such as Brexit occur. This can  have a significant impact – negative or positive – on the value of investments. In a globally...

With dental and optical the top two benefits on healthcare cash plans, the closure of these services during lockdown presented a challenge to the sector. But, by being forced to find other ways...

The Covid crisis has underlined how important it is for employers, insurers and wellbeing providers to provide effective services to support employees’ mental health. In recent years campaigns run by charities such as...

The UK asset management and pensions sectors are well on the road towards getting greater transparency of investment costs and charges. Understanding the costs incurred through investing is important to deliver value for...

When data goes wrong in pensions, it can go very badly wrong. The case of Now: Pensions is instructive. It had to radically overhaul its administrative systems, ended up removed from The Pensions...

Whether furloughed, facing redundancy or working from home, Covid-19 has had a lasting effect on many employees’ financial health and wellbeing. Given the links between financial, physical and mental health, employers have a...

The global nature of the Covid-19 crisis is pushing global underwriting solutions further up the corporate agenda. There are a limited number of networks in the UK that offer global underwriting in the...

Most pension schemes recommended  by consultants and advisers are ‘4 degree warming’ schemes that do not reflect the corporate values of their sponsors or the beliefs of their members. Such is the stark message from Tony Burdon,...

Further industry harmonisation and consensus around standardisation is needed if there is to be a smooth adoption of new regulations on ESG reporting within the pensions market. This was one of the...

 Pension scheme trustees, investment consultants and asset managers face tough new regulatory requirements that will compel them to generate, process and publish reams of comprehensive data relating to climate change, carbon emissions,...