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  A little planning goes a long way to boosting people’s financial positivity. Here’s how your clients can help members set up a 2025 savings plan that they’ll stick to all year...

Pension credit claims for the 2024/25 year to date have reached 300,000, according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), surpassing the 251,100 applications received during the entire 2023/24 period. About...

Spectrum.Life has appointed Ian Ranger as head of insurance for the UK and Ireland.  Ranger has over 17 years of experience in the protection market having held roles at Canada Life and...

Strong growth in its wealth and retirement division have helped Aviva deliver profits of £1.77bn last year, a figures that was ahead of analysts' expectations.  Publishing its full-year results this morning, Aviva...

The People’s Pension has appointed Amundi and Invesco to manage £28bn of the master trusts £32bn of assets.  State Street Global Advisors had previously run the entire portfolio, but this US-based asset...

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has called on regulators to focus on ‘practical solutions’ to ongoing problems with pension transfers.  Its response is to the FCA discussion paper: “Pensions: Adapting our...

Standard Life says it has seen increased demand for offshore bond last year, in part due to the proposed IHT reforms to pensions.  Standard Life says saw a 56 per cent increase...

Simplyhealth has launched a suite of affordable, flexible healthcare solutions to help businesses provide accessible health benefits for employees. The new solutions include customisable health packages, with bolt-on funding solutions and quick...

European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIF) are expanding after regulatory changes boosted approvals in 2024, signalling growing investor interest, but challenges remain, including high fees, liquidity risks, and the need for asset managers...

DC pension schemes will soon be able to access a new fund structure — the Reserved Investor Fund, or RIF —  designed to facilitate investment into illiquid assets such as UK property...