Experts are warning that high valuations, reflected in low dividend yields, and unencouraging prospects for global growth mean caution is needed. Schroders points out that three-month US Treasury bonds are currently yielding...
The research shows that while absence is an issue across the board for businesses of all shapes and sizes, 35 per cent of SMEs with up to 249 employees are actively using...
When the excellent Swiss Re UK Group Watch report is published each year we generally hear positive and optimistic words from insurers, reinsurers, distributors and Grid. But industry claims that there is...
Called ‘Transfer Tracking’, the new service comes from Origo’s Integration Hub and provides real-time data directly to a platform or provider’s adviser portal. The data is provided by Origo’s Options Transfers service,...
The brand has been revived following the completion of the sale of Conduent’s benefits business to an investment fund managed by private equity firm HIG Capital. Buck Consultants was rebranded as a...
The new FCA/TPR ‘ScamSmart’ campaign has been welcomed by stakeholders from across the pensions industry, but former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann says the campaign, combined with the delayed cold-calling ban which...
The report, which examines the investment strategy and performance of nine major defaults, found the offerings of Royal London, Standard Life, Fidelity, Aviva and Legal & General were generally more diversified than...
In some ways, the defined contribution space has hardly changed in the last two decades. Most of the conversations we have today are the same ones heard 20 years ago - how...
What do you get if you combine a stressful job at Goldman Sachs, a deep understanding of tech startups and a passion for wellbeing and behavioural psychology? For Earthmiles co-founder Megha Prakash,...
Group risk insurers have been talking generically about early intervention for years - but now they are increasingly doing so in terms of the return on investment such approaches can bring. Premier Choice...
