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Isio Group, the pension consultancy spun out of KPMG, has bought Premier Pensions Management. Isio’s first purchase since launch in 2020 will allow it to broaden the spectrum of pensions and financial...

Total employer pension contributions fell 5 per cent between Q4 2020 and Q1 2021 driven by a 27 per cent decrease in deficit reduction contributions. The quarterly Financial Survey of Pension Schemes...

The pensions minister, Guy Opperman MP, has emphasised the Department for Work and Pensions’ commitment to the 2017 automatic enrolment review proposals that are due to be implemented by the mid-2020s. The...

The Investing and Saving Alliance (Tisa) has partnered with data, intelligence and payments platform Moneyhub to develop a set of API standards for Open Finance. Tisa’s Open Savings, Investments and Pensions (OSIP)...

A product claiming to be the UK’s first app-based hybrid auto-enrolment and personal pension has been launched by a team operating through Oxford University’s start-up incubator. Called Collegia Pension, the product is...

Employers are being urged to prioritise workers’ optical health, after research shows a growing number of eye problems post pandemic. Research by Unum found over half of UK employees said screen time...

Financial wellbeing will be the next big employee challenge according to 65 per cent of HR decision-makers. Scottish Widows surveyed over 500 HR leaders from UK firms who have revealed that financial...

There has been huge demand for the government’s first ‘green’ gilts, with £10bn sold to institutional investors. A further £5 billion of UK green gilt issuance is expected this year, with NS&I...

Financial worries are causing mental health problems for more than half of UK employees according to new research.  Barnett Waddingham found 60 per cent of employees said money worries were causing them to...

Pension schemes were hit by a £46bn increase in liabilities in September as rising inflation put downward pressure on long-term interest rates, according to XPS Pensions Group’s DB: UK tracker. UK prices...