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UK defined benefit funds have long been allocating to what is broadly termed ‘alternative’ assets. According to the Pension Protection Fund’s Purple Book, UK private sector DB funds invested on average 15 per cent of...

EBC and risk broker Sutton Winson has launched a home insurance proposition that can be incorporated into any benefits platform. The product, called HomeFlex, has been created specifically for the flex benefit...

LCP has announced that former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb is to join the firm as a partner. He joins from Royal London where he has been policy director since 2015. At...

Finch Insurance Brokers and Employee Benefits and Verlingue Limited, which was rebranding from ICB Group on 1st December 2019, have merged under the brand name of their French EBC and broking giant parent...

Employee assistance programmes (EAPs) have been developing at such a pace that one could be forgiven for assuming that their race has already been run. After all, according to Institute for Employment Studies...

Nine out of 10 manufacturing companies investing in staff health and wellbeing have seen a productivity increase, according to a new report.  Manufacturing companies also saw improved workforce relations, a reduction in...

With a couple of decades’ head start on the UK’s auto-enrolment system, Australia’s superannuation market offers numerous insights for British pension professionals. Perhaps most striking is just how huge the market will...

Square Health is the latest company to join the industry body Group Risk Development (Grid).  The medical support services company says this will help it work more closely with the group risk...

It is widely recognised that one of the biggest challenges in long-term savings is getting customers really engaged with their savings. The FCA green-lighted many highly innovative approaches in their feedback Statement...

Almost lost in the Brexit-related noise of this year was a government consultation with the potential to subtly shift the responsibility employers have for the health of their workforce. In July, the...