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With dental and optical the top two benefits on healthcare cash plans, the closure of these services during lockdown presented a challenge to the sector. But, by being forced to find other ways...

The Covid crisis has underlined how important it is for employers, insurers and wellbeing providers to provide effective services to support employees’ mental health. In recent years campaigns run by charities such as...

Legal & General Insurance and Salary Finance have today launched a digital group insurance platform that enables employees to dial up or down cover across group life, income protection and critical illness...

The soaring cost of professional indemnity insurance is impacting consumers ability to access pension freedoms, with a third seeing an increase of more than 50 per cent since last year. Research from...

Just 17 per cent of employers are using video conferencing for pension surgeries despite increased home working, research from Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing has shown. The research, which was conducted in...

Legal & General has extended its lead as the biggest UK DC pensions provider, growing its assets to £98.8bn by the end of June 2020, up 14 per cent year on year,...

The Aviva Master Trust Trustees is adopting the ESG-integrated My Future Focus as the standard default investment strategy for the Aviva Master Trust The scheme’s trustees’ have formulated their own set of...

Tobin Murphy-Coles, the benefits consultancy and tech innovator, has joined PES as its new CEO. Murphy-Coles retains his role of executive adviser to engagement fintech Earthmiles, as well as continuing his management...

WPA Health App has been updated to provide instant health insurance claims authorisations, a development the provider is describing as a first in the UK health insurance market. The new feature allows...

Phoenix Group is launching a new ESG DC default solution for Standard Life schemes that tilts up green technology solutions by 50 per cent and reduces carbon intensity down by the same...