Generative AI chatbots are proving capable of answering most pension member queries accurately and safely, with new research showing one scheme’s AI tool successfully resolved around 90 per cent of questions without...
Pension savers call for simpler and more accessible pensions, with nearly four in five valuing control over how their retirement savings are invested, according to Pensions UK research. The research shows email...
Group life schemes provide employees with a cheap and impactful benefit. In reality, few of us will die while of working age, but for those that do, a substantial lump sum can...
Utmost Group has agreed to sell its bulk purchase annuity (BPA) business, Utmost Life and Pensions (ULP), to JAB Insurance. The sale includes the entire ULP business, which holds more than £5bn...
Employees working just two days a week on the new National Living Wage will now qualify for auto-enrolment pensions, according to Standard Life. According to the analysis, from April 2026, the National...
Hargreaves Lansdown has partnered with Smart-owned technology platform Keystone in a multi-phase investment to upgrade its Workplace business. According to the firms, the multi-million-pound deal will improve employer administration and allow employees...
Many in the industry may be wary of securitised debt arrangements, given the role that these bundled investments played in the global financial crisis. But as the workplace pension sector looks to...
What’s your current role – and what does it involve? I am an investment consultant at Quantum Advisory. To summarise my role in one sentence, I help institutional investors set and achieve...
Benefits platform Ben has raised £20.8m in a Series B round to support its product roadmap and its go-to-market capabilities. It was led by Mercia Ventures, with involvement from existing investors Atomico,...
More than half of UK pension savers are building retirement wealth outside of pensions, with a heavy reliance on cash according to new research. Interactive Investor found that 57 per cent of...
