Opinion

What factors are behind the significant increase in demand for mental health support services across the UK? There has been a renewed focus on wellbeing and good mental health in the last...

Pensions have traditionally been seen as the “jewel in the crown” of employee benefits but were temporarily dislodged after Covid-19, when flexible working topped many people’s employee benefits lists. Now, two years...

UK pensions should support UK growth, including green growth, infrastructure, climate and nature protection.  At least 25 per cent of each pension is funded by taxpayers, which could justify requiring allocations to...

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  if we heat our planet by 1.5°C, we will lose 70% of the world’s coral reefs. At 2°C or more, the pathway many scientists...

We keep hearing about biodiversity and the Taskforce on Nature-based Financial Disclosure (TNFD). Why do they matter to DC pensions? The pensions industry has spent a lot of energy focusing on climate...

The National Health Service (NHS) is seemingly in a state of crisis, with 7.2 million people now waiting for treatment. Yet the UK electorate remains fiercely loyal to the service, although few...

SPONSORED COMMENT For over forty years we’ve been talking about ‘management information’. It’s an ongoing challenge for providers working to improve the data insights they offer their clients, and for clients trying...

SPONSORED COMMENT How does a DB master trust work? Recent additional governance requirements and their associated cost of compliance mean that many companies are reconsidering how best to deliver their legacy defined...

SPONSORED CONTENT Cost and time pressures are the key barriers to offering much-needed digital benefits in SMEs - but there is a solution – and it’s already serving over 47,000 UK employees....

While there can be no debate that auto-enrolment has transformed the retirement prospects of millions of workers, we can’t escape the fact that there’s still much to be done to improve the...