Pensions

By Jim Grant, Senior Product Insight & Technical Support Analyst Transfers from defined benefit (DB) schemes are a bit of a hot topic just now. In this article we look at a...

The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) brought many benefits to the UK pension industry, but it also created an advice gap, resulting in consumers with the smallest funds struggling to access advice at...

Royal London commissioned Opinium to run our State of the Protection Nation research to find out how people felt about their own protection needs and the industry as a whole. By Ross...

Nearly half of UK workers think their employers should offer them health services as a top-up to the NHS, a new study has found. The research, from Willis Towers Watson, found 48...

By Craig Paterson, Underwriting and Claims Philosophy Manager, Royal London Hard-hitting headlines “Dying mother of two is refused life insurance payout.”1 “What a way to treat a dying man: Grandfather refused life...

Strong relationships don’t just happen by accident. They take time, commitment and effort. When we spoke to a number of advisers last year, it was no surprise to hear regular reviews were...

Pension deficits are a higher proportion of UK companies’ profits than at any time since the height of the financial crisis, standing at 70 per cent of total profits today compared to...

Debt-bound Britons are more than twice as likely to cancel regular payments into Isas than pensions, new research has found. Two-thirds – 67 per cent - of people with persistent unsecured debts...

Morten Nilsson has been replaced as CEO of Now: Pensions by Troy Clutterbuck, who is taking on the role on an interim basis. A statement from the provider says the board says...

Canada Life is buying Retirement Advantage, bringing the number of providers now operating in the open market down to just six. The open market for annuities now comprises just , Aviva, Canada...