It’s not controversial to say a key regulatory objective is to encourage consumers to shop around for financial services products. As well as driving competition, it also ensures the customer gets the...
Nearly five years ago the Income Protection Task Force came up with an idea that arguably changed the protection industry forever. We were constantly being frustrated with a lack of credible case...
Diversity for trustee boards has been on the Pensions Regulator’s (TPR) agenda for quite some time. There is now more focus for trustee boards to become more diverse and representative of their...
The Coronavirus pandemic is exactly the kind of situation that reinforces the value of group protection and the importance of using a quality, strong insurer with beneficial terms and conditions. As an...
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...
It’s good to talk: 6 February 2020 was ‘Time to Talk Day’, organised by Time to Change, an organisation aiming to transform the way we think and act about mental health issues....
David Attenborough’s recent series, Seven Worlds, One Planet was hard to miss. The opening episode alone attracted some 7 million views. The series focuses on the natural world and frequently references climate...
At the end of last year, ShareAction published a review of the 16 largest master trusts by assets under management (AUM). The review set out to explore how environmental, social, governance (ESG)...
Hard-pressed staff having to make complicated decisions, fears of a mass exodus of senior workers, and a government scrambling to react. No, I’m not talking about the NHS taper debacle – which...
