A quarter of employers will be forced to make adjustments to their benefits package by April following chancellor Philip Hammond’s decision to curtail some salary sacrifice benefits, new research has found. In...
The impact of Brexit on institutional investors’ attitude to holding UK assets is broadly neutral, with 63 per cent expecting to maintain their holdings of UK assets in the coming six months,...
Legal & General Investment Management is appointing Anna Troup and Mehdi Guissi to its institutional pensions Solutions Group. Troup joins as head of UK bespoke solutions, working across LGIM’s investment and distribution...
More than 100,000 grandparents and other family members are missing out on valuable state pension credits for looking after their grandchildren while their mother returns to work, a Freedom of Information request...
Child-specific illnesses such as cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy are to be covered in Aviva’s group critical illness offering, a move the insurer is describing as a first for the...
Auto-enrolment staging defaults are accelerating with one in seven businesses applying to Aviva for a workplace pension made their application after their staging date had passed, figures from the provider show. Figures...
Year-on-year CPI inflation rose to 1.6 per cent in December, 0.2 per cent higher than market expectations, with the impact of the weak pound on the cost of imports largely responsible for...
Mercer and Zurich have struck a £300m streamlined longevity hedge deal, taking the level of such deals done since December 2015 beyond £1bn. The deal, which Mercer says is the fifth of...
Protection intermediary LifeSearch has announced a deal with Scottish Widows that will see specialist advisers offering business loan protection advice to SMEs through Lloyds Bank’s Commercial Banking division. LifeSearch CEO Tom Baigrie...
LEBC Group has appointed two managing directors following a corporate restructure that sees the establishment of a distinct retirement advice business. Jeremy MacLeod becomes managing director of LEBC’s ‘Foundation’ business, which includes...
