Smart Pension customers can now increase their pension contributions by speaking into their phone, following the provider’s adoption of Amazon Alexa technology. The functionality is available through Amazon’s Echo home hub suite...
Mark Till has been appointed managing director for Aegon Digital Solutions, the provider's workplace and platform business, in a leadership reshuffle that see Adrian Grace add the role of CEO of Cofunds to the identical...
Disagreement over how to structure a combined Scottish Widows / Standard Life pension provider have left the deal dead in the water and was the trigger for Lloyds Banking Group's (LBG) withdrawal...
Start-ups targeting asset management will be helped to turn into business-ready solutions through a fintech accelerator project unveiled by the Investment Association (IA) today. The new IA fintech accelerator – named VeloCity – will...
A rumoured Scottish Widows purchase of Standard Life’s pension book looks less likely following Lloyds Banking Group’s decision to pull its multi-billion investment deal with Aberdeen Asset Management, say industry experts. Lloyds announced yesterday...
Aegon is planning a £20m investment in its workplace pensions proposition, aiming to improve functionality and to further integrate the BlackRock DC business into its offering. In a statement published alongside Aegon’s...
Ellipse has launched a benefits benchmark tool to help advisers benchmark their clients’ employee benefits offerings with those of their competitors. Called ‘benefits benchmark’, the tool uses Ellipse’s employee benefits research and allows advisers...
The number of employers that have met their auto-enrolment duties has passed the one million mark, a Pensions Regulator compliance update has confirmed. TPR says 1,032,567 employers had complied with their auto-enrolment...
More than half of UK employees would be willing to wear tech devices that detect mental health symptoms if their employer provided it for free, according to research. A survey for Axa...
The Pensions Advisory Service’s (TPAS) dispute resolution function is being transferred to The Pensions Ombudsman (TPO), consolidating all complaint handling within a single body. At present customers can approach both TPO and...
