Pensions

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...

Headline figures in Group Watch 2017 suggesting positive growth disguise a lacklustre level of new-to-market business says Ellipse distributor partnerships director Chris Morgan While the number of people insured has increased by...

Pensions re-enrolment and the changes in the law governing salary sacrifice are the two main reasons employers are planning to review their overall benefits package, according to new research. A poll of...

Independent trustee Pitmans Trustees (PTL) has become a manager-owned business following a management buy-out announced today. Richard Butcher, Pitmans Trustees The firm, which has governance oversight of over £150bn of assets across...

Financial forecasting provider EValue is appointing Paul McNamara as chief executive officer to drive growth in the workplace and robo advice sectors, replacing Mark Cappell who has left the company. McNamara was...