The leaked Labour manifesto proposal to scrap the planned pension age rise will cost taxpayers around £300bn, says former pension minister Steve Webb. Webb calculates the combined effect of the proposed rise...
Transfer values touched record highs in April and fluctuated by more than 3.5 per cent across the month, meaning the value of a £10,000 a year income changed by £9,000, according to...
Protection Review co-founder, campaigner and high-profile life and health consultant Peter Le Beau MBE is retiring from the industry at the end of the year. Le Beau began his career at British...
The Government should rethink its cut to bereavement benefits and employers should be given fiscal incentives to offer group income protection says Baroness Altmann. Altmann’s call for a rethink on bereavement benefits...
Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management expect to lose 800 roles – almost 10 per cent of their combined workforce of 9,000 – over a three-year integration period following their proposed merger....
Dave Ireland, one of the architects of State Street Global Adviser’s target date funds is returning to company as its new global head of defined contribution. Ireland leaves Wellington Management to join...
GIP insurer’s early intervention and rehabilitation services are now returning more than one in four workers back to work, according to industrywide group risk statistics published today. Group Risk Development’s GIP return...
A white-labelled service that allows advisers to deliver robo advice to their clients in under two hours has been launched by Wealth Wizards. The software as a service paraplanner tools is designed...
BlackRock is expanding its Tax Transparent Fund (TTF) range with seven new trackers, giving pension schemes looking to minimise withholding taxes a greater range of investment options. Claire Finn, BlackRock The funds,...
Aon has bought online talent assessment company Cut-e boosting the number of job applicants assessed worldwide to 30m. The Hamburg-based company has 35 offices around the world, and assesses over 12m candidates...
