Scottish Widows Master Trust is now offering five new fund options with a focus on responsible investment. These self-select active and passive funds have been added to its core fund range with...
Inside Pensions, which offers independent governance services to trustee boards, has been acquired by Zedra, a global specialist in active wealth and fund services. This transaction is in line with Zedra’s stated...
An inability to get affordable professional indemnity (PI) insurance is the primary reason why financial advisers have stopped offering defined benefit (DB) transfer advice, with premiums soaring or cover not even available...
Davidson Asset Management (DAM) has joined Group Risk Development (Grid) as it looks to boost its insights into group risk industry and related regulatory developments. DAM is the thirtieth intermediary firm to join...
Covid has plunged the nation into a new age of ambiguity, in which previously certain elements of our social and working lives are overlapping and changing beyond recognition – with big consequences...
Health and protection insurer, The Exeter, is appointing former CEO of Royal London's intermediary division Isobel Langton as chief executive, replacing Andy Chapman in April 2021. Chapman announced his intention to retire...
The Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) equalisation working group, chaired by the Pension Administration Standards Association (PASA), has issued a ‘good practice’ guidance to UK pension schemes. The new guidance highlights tax issues which...
Online pension provider PensionBee is giving customers the opportunity to become shareholders if it floats on the London Stock Exchange but says it has not made a decision yet as to whether...
Building a global approach to business has overtaken improving business operations as the main rationale for sending employees to work abroad, a major new survey from Axa Global Healthcare has found. The...
Romance scams have soared by a fifth during the pandemic, with Action Fraud, the National Fraud & Cyber Crime Reporting Centre, part of the Police, revealing 20 per cent increase in bank...
