DC pension providers should be required to offer savers the option to invest in a government-backed investment vehicle, akin to the French ‘Solidarity Investment Fund, and will get tax relief beyond their...
Transparency services provider Simplitium, is hiring Kas Bank pair Stewart Bevan and Tom Hibbard to lead a drive into the pensions sector. Simplitium has delivered reporting solutions in the over the counter...
Canada Life is rolling out a deeper mental health proposition with RedArc following a trial that indicates absences can be significantly reduced with more intensive interventions. Following an eight-month project investigating the...
Working dashboards could be just 12 months away – but it will take compulsion to get there says ITM executive chairman Duncan Howorth It is with a mix of elation and frustration...
Investment managers expect to pay an average of 10 basis points for research formerly paid for out of their customers’ funds when Mifid II comes into effect on January 3, 2018. A...
The retirement income market is being choked by regulatory complexity, challenges to the life insurance business model and rapid sector consolidation, a new report from the Pensions Institute concludes. The report argues...
National Pension Trust, the DC mastertrust from Xafinity, is appointing Andy Flynn and Jonathan Hight-Warburton to build its defined contribution pensions offering. Flynn, who was formerly workplace marketing manager at Zurich, takes...
Pension tax relief is likely to be in the firing line in next week’s Budget says Royal London director of policy Steve Webb. He sets out the Chancellor’s main options, and his...
Cash plan provider Health Shield is buying PMI ecess and shortfall protection provider Medex Protect for an undisclosed fee. The deal adds another product to Health Shield’s existing range, enabling the provider...
The wellbeing of globally mobile workers is significantly lower than domestic workers, with loneliness, anxiety and fear of falling ill while abroad all fuelling a perception that they are worse off than...
