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More than £35bn has been withdrawn from pensions since freedoms were in 2015 with £2.5bn withdrawn in Q1 2020, up 19 per cent on the same period last year. The £2.5bn represents...

Grid is forming a new Workplace Public Policy Committee with the aim of promoting workplace health and wellbeing matters to government. The committee has been set up in response to the group risk sector...

WPA, the not-for-profit healthcare provider, has announced a rebate of approximately 40 per cent of monthly premiums for SME and retail customers during the coronavirus lockdown. The premium rebate will be rounded...

Pension schemes are being urged to send DB members looking to transfer a Covid-19 transfer warning letter highlighting the risks of doing so during the pandemic, following new guidance from the regulator...

Scottish Widows has appointed Stuart Reid to a newly-created role of head of business development, to lead growth in its contract based and master trust schemes. He joins the insurer on 1st...

Unum is giving free access to its digital Help@hand health and wellbeing service during Coronavirus to firms with less than 100 employees. Between 1st May and 31st July, 2020 small firms that have a...

Tackling the epidemic of non-communicable chronic diseases has been a key aim for wellbeing programmes for many years. Now we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic, other health and wellbeing interventions...

The 2019 update of the European Benchmark Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/2089) creates labels for benchmarks that are on a decarbonisation trajectory or are aligned with the Paris Agreement under the United Nations...

Tom McPhail, arguably the most high-profile pensions pundit of the last 20 years and one of the sector’s most influential lobbyists, is leaving Hargreaves Lansdown to work for a cycling and e-bike...

Some companies could see the levy paid to the Pension Protection Fund rise by £1m as a result of the Covid crisis, according to new analysis. Data from pension consultants LCP suggests...