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XPS Pensions Group has appointed Paul Armitage as the new head for its master trust, The National Pension Trust.  Armitage, who was formerly head of distribution at NPT replaces Dave Hodges who...

Scottish Widows is investing £2bn from its pension portfolios into BlackRock’s new Climate Transition World Equity Fund.  This is the first investment into this fund, which Scottish Widows helped design. The fund takes...

Workplace health, wellbeing and rehabilitation consultancy Sparta Health has joined Group Risk Development, the trade body that lobbies on behalf of the industry.  The company said it had made this decision in...

A cross industry working group has issued new guidance on GMP equalisation, designed to help pension scheme trustees communicate the complexity of these changes to members. This guidance specifically relates to communication...

Only a minority of working adults (44 per cent) feel they understand enough about pensions to make decisions about their retirement, according to new data from the Office of National Statistics. Its...

Three out of four employees don’t have any access to financial education in the workplace, according to new research. The financial wellbeing survey, by Aegon, highlights a shortage of financial education with...

There has been a 400 per cent increase in the usage of the virtual GP since the start of the Covid pandemic, according to one employee benefits insurer. Unum has said that...

Pension deficits have continued to rise during July, despite the economic lockdown easing, according to the latest data from Mercer. Its Pensions Risk Survey data shows the accounting deficit of the DB...

New best practice guidance has been issued to pension administration to help them navigate their way out of the lockdown.  This guidance is provided by the Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA), and...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a marked effect on the funding of DB schemes, with a wide gap remaining between the best and worst-funded schemes, according to Aon’s latest accounting report. It...