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The coronavirus pandemic is likely to exacerbate the gender savings gap, with a greater proportion of women saying they will decrease pension contributions in the next six months. Recent research by Aegon...

Income Protection Task Force co-chairs Roy McLoughlin and Kevin Carr will be stepping down from the role at the end of this year, in an announcement designed to give the organisation time...

Canada Life has added excepted group life policies to its CLASS (Canada Life Automated Self Service) administration. The platform, which currently administers 12 per cent of the UK employee group protection market,...

Bulk annuities sales have proved to be resilient despite difficult market conditions, with almost £13bn of business placed in the first half of this year. According to Aon this is the fourth...

Bupa and CS Healthcare have announced a proposed transfer of CS Healthcare’s members and business to Bupa. CS Healthcare is a Friendly Society with approximately 18,500 members and was originally established in...

Nest is appointing Gavin Perera-Betts to the role of managing director of its new Nest Experience business unit which is being created to manage evolving technology and customer expectations in the coming...

Aberdeen Standard Investments chair Martin Gilbert and Chris Hitchen, the former CEO of Railpen, are two of a string of high-profile figures appointed to the asset and liability committee of The Pension SuperFund....

Learning from other countries’ pension reforms is difficult to do as the political and economic context from which such systems emerge are often very different. This means that it is not usually...

I’ve been waiting for a while for anyone to come up with a good argument as to why introducers – particularly those that intervene on DB pension transfers – should not be banned....

 As  with  several other regulatory initiatives, the implementation of investment pathways has been delayed due to Covid-19. The reform had been due to come into force in August, which would have meant investors following...