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One of the biggest challenges in selling insurance products is that they are effectively intangible. They promise that if something happens, at a later date, the insurer will be there to pay...

Millions of individuals around the country already face a daunting task saving enough for retirement. But the challenges of saving adequately for old age are set to get much tougher due to...

Women working overseas need to have more support from their employers on a range of health issues. Towergate Health & Protection has highlighted this issue and called for employers to do more...

Fidelity International has bought Legal & General Investment Management’s (LGIM) UK personal investing business, bringing 300,000 customers and £5.8bn of assets under management onto it's Personal Investing platform. The acquisition will double the...

 Pension scheme trustees, investment consultants and asset managers face tough new regulatory requirements that will compel them to generate, process and publish reams of comprehensive data relating to climate change, carbon emissions,...

Critical illness claims for cancer are expected to soar in 2021 after a 45 per cent fall in claims during lockdown in April 2020. Protection provider LV= says a fall in diagnoses...

A small majority workplace pension savers have seen their investments completely protected in the year covering the Covid crash, with the Corporate Adviser Pensions Average (CAPA) showing a gross return of 0.61 per...

The £46bn Northern Local Government Pension Scheme (NLGPS) has become the latest major pension scheme to sign up to the Make My Money Matter (MMMM) pledge as part of its commitment to...

The Pensions Regulator has published new guidance for DB schemes considering consolidation into a new superfund. The guidance —  aimed at trustees and sponsoring companies — stresses that they need to be...

SPONSORED CONTENT A digital revolution has swept the globe over the last few decades. Twenty years ago, it was hard to imagine working without a PC on every desk. Then the flatscreen...