Healthtech and digital medicine are increasingly been pushed as amongst the most effective ways to manage workplace wellbeing, health, absence and engagement. Group risk providers are starting to adopt new digital solutions...
The fierce debate about the issues of pension transfers from defined benefit schemes shows no sign of abating. There is general agreement that problems emerged in the wake of the pension freedoms, launched...
EAPs have seen a pretty dramatic evolution. Starting out life in the 1940s as a very focused solution to white-collar alcoholism in US office culture, their remit widened over the decades to...
Pooling. It’s not new. It’s not sexy. But it does have the potential to bring to international clients – even the smaller ones – cost efficiencies, control and essential local and global employee...
In recent years there has been renewed scrutiny of gender equality within the financial services industry. More often than not, this has focused on the lack of women in both senior management...
At a time of low unemployment, high turnover, skills shortages and largely stagnant pay, employers are challenged to make much more of what they have, particularly with regards to benefits – a huge area of spend for...
Scheme-specific benchmarks can give employers and trustees a false sense of comfort whereas industrywide comparisons can build broader understanding of performance, said delegates at a recent Corporate Adviser debate on investment strategy....
Group risk support services benefit both employers and employees, and while bosses and staff appreciate different characteristics of group risk products, both may value them as much as the insurance component, agreed...
As employers increase their focus on employee wellbeing and look for a return on their investment to achieve it, the importance of support services in group risk products is arguably beginning to...
Some argue that employee benefits consultants that turn a blind eye to the potential opportunities of expanding into areas such as business protection, group personal accident (PA) cover and Unum’s sick pay insurance...
