Trustees should consider how a covenant is impacted by geopolitical volatility and factor that into assessment of covenant reliability, according to consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock. The statement comes at a time...
Benifex has appointed Mohamad Awada to be its chief services officer. In this role he will lead Benifex’s global professional services and consulting functions from London, with a focus on scaling the...
Canada Life has appointed Rhian Littlewood as strategic delivery director, bulk purchase annuities (BPA). Littlewood will help shape Canada Life’s growing footprint in the BPA market and will join the BPA Senior...
The Iran conflict, which escalated in the second half of Q1, triggered a 22.5 per cent quarter by quarter decline in deal value and a 12.4 per cent drop in deal count...
I have spent two decades talking to financial planners about technology and learned one thing which is that the profession is the ultimate chameleon. We’ve evolved from the manual grind of stock...
Origen Financial Services has appointed James Ellison as head of corporate pensions. Ellison joined the firm in April 2026 and leads pension-related corporate and trustee engagements, providing support, guidance and advisory services...
Collective defined contribution pension schemes (CDCs) offer opportunities for better retirements than traditional DC schemes. That prize is eye-catching: the DWP’s own recent press release claimed “retirement incomes could increase by as...
The UK government is to give an annual payment of £70 to approximately one million individuals in net-pay schemes, two years after first offering to pay the compensation. People earning £10,000 or...
DC savers are expected to see an increase in future living standards, despite wider geopolitical volatility, according to Aon’s pension tracker for 2025. Figures relating to the final quarter of last year,...
More people are using private health insurance for treatment, with a record 500,000 admissions in the first nine months of 2025, while NHS waiting lists remained broadly unchanged. PHIN and NHS England...
