The glamour, the glory, the grandeur of the Oscars, the Baftas, the Brits. Industry awards are often compared to them, and with good reason. Comparisons can be drawn not just to the...
Absence due to sickness or injury is a massive drain on UK businesses. Over 130 million days are lost a year according to official figures. Some of that is down to short-term...
Centre-left think tank The Fabian Society and centre-right Bright Blue have joined forces to call for a Turner-style commission to address challenges such as the future of auto-enrolment and pension decumulation. The...
Rumoured Treasury plans to address the tapered annual allowance (TAA) issue by increasing the threshold from £110,000 to £150,000 have been described as ‘naïve’, pointless tinkering and blind to the inequalities in...
UK defined benefit funds have long been allocating to what is broadly termed ‘alternative’ assets. According to the Pension Protection Fund’s Purple Book, UK private sector DB funds invested on average 15 per cent of...
EBC and risk broker Sutton Winson has launched a home insurance proposition that can be incorporated into any benefits platform. The product, called HomeFlex, has been created specifically for the flex benefit...
LCP has announced that former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb is to join the firm as a partner. He joins from Royal London where he has been policy director since 2015. At...
Finch Insurance Brokers and Employee Benefits and Verlingue Limited, which was rebranding from ICB Group on 1st December 2019, have merged under the brand name of their French EBC and broking giant parent...
Employee assistance programmes (EAPs) have been developing at such a pace that one could be forgiven for assuming that their race has already been run. After all, according to Institute for Employment Studies...
Nine out of 10 manufacturing companies investing in staff health and wellbeing have seen a productivity increase, according to a new report. Manufacturing companies also saw improved workforce relations, a reduction in...
