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Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) has bought SME broker Chartwell Healthcare to create a £200m premium PMI and group risk business. Chartwell is headquartered in Bristol and has 50 employees, specialises in private...

Ben Pollard is the founder and managing partner of Smarterly, the investment platform that targets workplace savings with what he describes as a data-driven yet user-friendly approach. The platform has Staffcare founder...

Standard Life Aberdeen has announced the sale of its workplace pensions business to Phoenix Group just days after the collapse of a proposed merger with Scottish Widows had been announced. Standard Life,...

Now: Pensions, the third-biggest master trust in the UK, has been put up for sale following a catalogue of administration problems that has led to the provider exiting the regulator’s approved provider...

Paul Budgen has left his role as business development director at Nest to take on the same role with tech-based master trust provider Smart Pension. Budgen has nearly 25 years of experience...

Scottish pension savers will have to contact HMRC to get full tax relief if they are in relief-at-source schemes and qualify as 21 per cent taxpayers, the Revenue has confirmed . People earning...

The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) will publish data on the performance of the asset managers that investment consultants (ICs) have recommended, as part of an eight-paper schedule of publications coming out...

Ronnie Taylor, who formerly held the role of distribution director at Scottish Widows, is understood to be joining Aegon, Corporate Adviser understands. Taylor is understood to be taking on a role at...

Scottish Widows aims to add a million new pensions customers to its book as part of a £50bn drive into financial planning and retirement, a strategy update from Lloyds Banking Group (LPG)...

The FCA has issued a Call for Input  on how to make the filing of compliance documents machine-readable to simplify a process that swamps the regulator with more than 500,000 regulatory submissions...