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Families insured with group life assurance have received more financial payouts as a result of Covid-19 in the first half of 2021 than in the whole of 2020, according to Group Risk...

Britax Childcare Group has completed a deal with Just to insure 70 per cent of the liabilities across three separate DB schemes in a single transaction. The £30m buy-in transaction, completed in...

What is ISO 31030? It is derived from the well-established ISO 31000 (2018) Risk Management Standard, bringing it into the travel industry to create the first globally recognised Travel Risk framework that...

Mark Ramsook, senior director and sales leader for GB and Western Europe has joined Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing as Director of Global Employee Benefits Development for Europe and Latin America. Ramsook...

Mattioli Woods has bought Richings Financial Management for an initial payment of £0.9m, with up to £0.9m more payable after two years. Founded in 1991, Richings is an established financial planning and...

Cognitive assessment engine software  provider Comentis has closed a funding round of £200,000 to enable it to grow its client risk assessment offering aimed at financial and legal firms. The software, that...

Regulations facilitating collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes need to be made more flexible to make them fairer to younger people and reduce intergenerational cross-subsidies warns LCP. As the Government’s consultation on the...

A third of Generation Xers fear health and old age mean they will be able to work for as long as they need to fund their retirement needs, according to research from...

Accessing pension to fund a Covid cash crisis could see even median earners hit with tax penalties for contributing to their pension, Aegon has warned. Individuals earning £30,000 per year who have...

UK businesses are planning inflation-beating pay rises averaging 2.9 per cent in 2022 as pay freezes disappear and optimism returns, a major survey by Willis Towers Watson has found. The rise is...