The Covid-19 pandemic has brought home to employers and employees the true value of group risk insurance, both in terms of the core insurance and associated health and wellbeing benefits. For many years...
Despite the pandemic, the UK sickness absence rate has fallen to 1.8 per cent in 2020, the lowest recorded level since the data time series began in 1995, according to figures from...
The industry response to the publication of the eagerly anticipated report from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) about how to tackle the small pots problem only served to underline what...
The Organistion for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is dropping the concept of annuitisation as a headline priority for quality DC plans. In a consultation published today, the Paris-based thinktank has proposed...
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought home to employers and employees the true value of group risk insurance, both in terms of the core insurance and associated health and wellbeing benefits. For many years...
The government will look to create more flexibility for pension schemes to invest in illiquid and infrastructure assets, as part of a Budget pledge to help rebuild a 'greener' economy after the...
The government is due to refund £3bn to women who have been underpaid state pensions according to the latest documents released by the Office of Budget Responsibility. The figures are contained in...
The Chancellor has confirmed that the pension lifetime allowance (LTA) will stay at its current level of £1.073m until 2026. This announcement came, as Rishi Sunak confirmed that a number of tax...
The decision by the Chancellor to extend furlough pay until September is good news for workplace pension and will help protect people’s longer-term savings. The pension industry has welcomed this decision, which...
DB funding reform could be on a slower timetable that previously expected, according to a written statement from the Pensions Minister, published last night. Following Royal Assent on the Pension Schemes Act...
