Cash plan provider SimplyHealth is making a subsidised coronavirus antibody test available to its corporate and retail customers. This test will be available from July 13. SimplyHealth says it is heavily subsidising...
A raft of A-list celebrities including Gary Lineker, Graham Norton, Westworld star Thandie Newton, and Mariella Frostrup have backed a campaign calling for greener and more ethical pensions. The string of celebrity...
There’s a great Vietnam war movie called ‘We Were Soldiers’. Mel Gibson plays the commanding officer who states: “I will be the first to set foot on the field. I will be...
Real estate and emerging market government debt have both been introduced to Scottish Widows’ pension defaults following a strategic review of its asset allocation strategies that also sees currency hedging introduced. The...
MetLife’s 2019 Employee Benefits Trends Study revealed that six out of ten employees say that benefits were an important reason why they joined their company and 72% said having benefits customised to meet...
How has the delivery of group risk products and services been affected by the Covid-19 lockdown? The lockdown has forced all parties – brokers, employers, employees and insurers – to operate online,...
The role of the trustee is under unprecedented scrutiny with huge pressure and demands for change in the way schemes are run emanating from The Pensions Regulator. Single employer trust-based schemes have seen...
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, we have been sharply confronted with the environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts that global capitalism – and its corollaries: trade and travel – has...
He’s arguably the most influential pensions opinion-former, lobbyist and commentator of the last two decades. He’s been on text or direct message terms with virtually every pensions minister this century. His contact book...
Is it possible to have just as good an interaction with a client via a virtual meeting as one in the same room as them? This was a hotly debated subject before...
