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Fintech company Iress has acquired O&M Systems — a firm providing pension and investment data and comparison tools for financial advisers. O&M, which started in 1992,  has over 2,000 clients. This includes...

Aetna International has announced it will provide all their members with free access to its virtual GP service, vHealth, to help ensure continuous access to health care during the Covid-19 outbreak.  This...

Employers need support staff with anxiety about the coronavirus, and take positive steps to reduce uncertainty. Nuffield Health’s professional head of emotional wellbeing, Brendan Street says: “As more more cases of the...

Aon has warned trustees that they need to get to grips with virtual meetings to ensure business continuity for pension schemes during this period of upheaval. With coronavirus causing serious health problems...

There is a significant gap between employer and employee expectations when it comes to the support available for health and wellbeing. Research by Group Risk Development (Grid) found that while employees and...

Why is there so much focus on ESG at the moment? ESG has definitely passed a tipping point over the last 12 months, with everyone talking about it now and lots of...

At the start of 2020, it could be said we are living in interesting times. Over the past couple of decades, society has come a long way and while the pace of...

The Pensions Climate Risk Industry Group (PCRIG) has launched a consultation on the new guidance it is publishing for  trustees. This guide is designed to help trustees meet existing legal obligations, when it...

The rate at which individuals are using pension freedoms to access their pension funds continues to surprise official forecasters, bringing the Treasury an extra £400m a year, according to papers published alongside...

Employee benefits consultants are warning businesses they need to have adequate staff absent systems in place, in order to benefit from additional government help with coronavirus. In the Budget, the chancellor announced...