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Romance scams have soared by a fifth during the pandemic, with Action Fraud, the National Fraud & Cyber Crime Reporting Centre, part of the Police, revealing 20 per cent increase in bank...

Pension schemes will be free to decide how and when to move to the new Normal Minimum Pension Age (NMPA) of age 57 by 2028, meaning some may raise theirs earlier than...

Gallagher's Benefits and HR Consulting Division has named Dieter Gistelinck as managing consultant, global workforce strategy & consulting, responsible for developing the Gallagher Global Workforce Strategy consulting portfolio as a Europe, Middle East and...

The Pensions Schemes Bill received its Royal Assent today, becoming the Pensions Schemes Act 2021, giving legal weight to the structure for the implementation of collective DC (CDC) schemes, the introduction of...

The number of consumers with low financial resilience has soared from 10.7m to 14.2m during 2020 as the pandemic took its toll on UK households, a bleak report from the FCA has...

Chuka Ummuna, the former Labour politician and MP for Streatham, has joined JP Morgan to lead its European environmental, social and governance (ESG) operations. Ummuna joins JP Morgan form communications firm Edelmen,...

Phoenix Group has boosted its bulk annuity team with five new appointments.  Priyesh Patel has joined as an investment analyst, while the company has also recruited Shoyab Alli, Sam Young, Miles Smith...

Cushon has appointed Independent Trustee Services client director Dianne Day and former executive director for regulatory policy at The Pensions Regulator Andrew Warwick-Thompson as independent trustees. Cushon is also bringing in Julius Pursaill...

Auto-enrolment rates remain resilient, despite the financial effects of the pandemic and most recent rise in contributions rates.  This was the conclusion of Nest’s latest insight report, whose survey sample includes around...

Unum’s health and wellbeing app now has over a quarter of a million users, and is utilised by 1,100 businesses. Take up of this Help@hand app, which offers acess a remote GP...