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PMI provider General & Medical is offering a new virtual GP services to members, through Medical Solutions.  This service will be available to all policyholders at no additional cost and will give...

Group risk professionals are celebrating the confirmation that group life assurance is exempt from having to register with the Trust Registration Service, saving an extra admin burden for over 50,000 group life and critical...

The Pensions Regulator issued employers with fines of £23.1m in the last financial year for non-compliance with auto-enrolment duties, with one employer fined £350,000. In the year ended 31 March 2020, a...

Axa PPP Healthcare has appointed former Marsh marketing and comms chief Andy McClure as marketing and proposition director. Prior to his new role McClure was managing director, international marketing & communications, at...

The number of people retiring before age 65 has increased by more than 55,000 in the last four months, suggesting Covid-19 may be driving a rise in early retirement. Figures from the...

Howden Broking Group has bought a 60 per cent stake in Spanish flex provider Compensa, expanding its footprint in both Spain and Mexico. The business is also known as a specialist in...

The time taken to transfer pensions during the coronavirus lockdown only increased marginally, despite the significant disruption to usual business operations.  Data collated by Origo show that during the second quarter of...

More than a third of FTSE250 companies will offer master trusts as their main pension vehicle within the next two years, according to a new report. Willis Towers Watson's annual DC pension...

Australian asset manager, Macquarie Investment Management, is launching into the UK workplace pensions market with its fee-free True Index strategy.  This strategy has been available to Australian DC schemes for 20 years....

Fraudsters have raked in around £4m in by ‘cloning’ existing investment products, and persuading investors to buy them. The Investment Association has seen 300 incidences of this fraud to date. It warned...