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Canada Life UK has appointed Stuart Robinson as its new chief financial officer and David Germain as its chief information officer. Robinson (pictured below) will join from Aviva where he has worked...

Legal & General has launched a new HR communication toolkit designed to help employers promote health and wellbeing benefits more effectively.  The toolkit include various six-step guides, templates, examples and a checklist...

The number of people accessing their pensions under pension freedom rules fell in 2020/21 according to new data from the Financial Conduct Authority. Its data shows a 12 per cent reduction in...

A total of 40 per cent of employees, or 11.7 million workers, say they would consider switching employers to get better employee benefit, according research from Unum. The research, by Unum and...

Only a third of active equity funds, 34 per cent, outperformed a passive alternative this year, according to AJ Bell’s latest ‘Manager versus Machine’ report. According to the report, active outperformance was...

Master trusts default funds have held on to their post-lockdown growth during 2021 delivering steady returns for members according to Hymans Robertson’s latest research. However its Master Trust Default Fund report says...

Canada Life has confirmed that its group income protection cover will include higher national insurance payments, provided NI cover is already insured, however in many cases this will not result in a...

Andy Dickson will take up the newly created role of master trust strategic development director for Aegon UK. Dickson joins from Atlas Master Trust where he was head of market strategy. Prior...

Phoenix Group has appointed former managing director of JPMorgan Chase's investment banking division Anna Franekova as corporate development director, effective 1 March 2022. Franekova will oversee Phoenix Group's corporate activity, which will...

The Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) has published a report which found that policies aimed at improving the retirement outcomes of underpensioned groups will be most effective if they consider how the negative labour market...