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Willis Towers Watson is calling for trustees to refocus priorities in order unlock “real ESG action” in UK pensions. The consultancy firm says spending an additional eight hours a year focused on...

Almost two thirds of workers across the UK and Europe feel their work-related stress levels have increased compared with pre-pandemic levels, with 81 per cent of this group describing themselves as having...

The UK asset management and pensions sectors are well on the road towards getting greater transparency of investment costs and charges. Understanding the costs incurred through investing is important to deliver value for...

When data goes wrong in pensions, it can go very badly wrong. The case of Now: Pensions is instructive. It had to radically overhaul its administrative systems, ended up removed from The Pensions...

Whether furloughed, facing redundancy or working from home, Covid-19 has had a lasting effect on many employees’ financial health and wellbeing. Given the links between financial, physical and mental health, employers have a...

For the first time in recent years, the number of people planning to work beyond retirement has declined, with experts suggesting this could be one of the consequences of the ongoing coronavirus...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a largely positive impact on adviser businesses according to new research. AKG’s Future of Advice research paper, found that the coronavirus pandemic has acted as “an accelerant”...

The chair of the Work and Pensions Committee has submitted an amendment to the Pension Schemes Bill, which, if passed, will see people automatically enrolled to Pension Wise guidance before accessing their...

The global nature of the Covid-19 crisis is pushing global underwriting solutions further up the corporate agenda. There are a limited number of networks in the UK that offer global underwriting in the...

Whilst the pandemic put significant pressure on our NHS, it coped the best it could. Non-urgent non-COVID- 19-related services were deprioritised to ensure that healthcare resources were pointed at the greatest public...