TPT Retirement Solutions’s DB Superfund has appointed Mercer as its scheme actuary and LCP to provide independent investment oversight. The trustee board has also appointed Gowling WLG to provide legal advice and...
Employers are adapting benefits to meet changing financial pressures but uptake and provision remain uneven according to Broadstone’s second UK Employee Benefits Landscape report. The report, produced in partnership with Investor in...
Aviva has will extend its employee assistance programme (EAP) to all 2.8m of its group protection customers. Until now this EAP has only been available to group income protection (GIP) clients. From...
Employee satisfaction with benefits is falling despite workers feeling better informed, signalling a widening gap between communication and perceived value. WTW’s latest EX Intelligence report shows 84 per cent of employees now...
Fintech company PensionPay has partnered with Visa, to launch a new ‘digital wallet’, to allow savers to make payments directly from their pension plan, via card or an app on their phone....
AJ Gallagher has further expanded its UK footprint with the acquisition of employee benefits firm First Actuarial for an undisclosed sum. First Actuarial offers pension administration, investment services and employee benefits consultancy...
WTW has acquired the US-based alternative investment manager FlowStone Partners. FlowStone specialise in investments into private equity secondaries for both institutional investors and high net worth clients. WTE says this will this...
The next challenge for DC pension providers is solving what economist Professor William Sharp described as “the nastiest, hardest problem in finance” — delivering sustainable income solutions for members. This was the...
Professional trustees are concerned that their role will be undermined by Government pension reforms, with specific concerns about reserve powers to direct DC investment decisions. In a panel debate at Corporate Adviser’s...
For years, diversity and inclusion were viewed as internal workforce matters, issues for HR teams not advisory firms. But, this separation no longer applies as diiversity has become more central to governance...
