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Therese Coffey is the new secretary of state for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), following the resignation by Amber Rudd at the weekend.  Coffey becomes the seventh minister to hold...

In recent years there has been renewed scrutiny of gender equality within the financial services industry. More often than not, this has focused on the lack of women in both senior management...

Radical change, at least within the financial services sector, tends to happen slowly, and is often the response to external pressure being applied elsewhere.  This is particularly true when it comes to the...

Jesal Mistry is joining Legal & General Investment Management as business development director.  Mistry joins from Hymans Robertson, where he was head of DC scheme design and provider evaluation. Prior to this Mistry...

Mattioli Woods has appointed Sean McSweeney as its new employee benefits team director. In this newly created role McSweeney will oversee the wealth managers' employee benefit consultants.  McSweeney joins from Chase de Vere,...

The Investment Association (IA) has launched a campaign to increase the number of black investment managers working in the industry.  This diversity drive is backed by a new report, which details the...

The Money and Pensions Service has announced that Chris Curry will take up the role as principal of the Pensions Dashboard Industry Delivery Group from July 8th. Curry is currently a director...

Q. Bringing together two organisations of the size and scale of Willis and Towers Watson always carried the risk that there would be cannibisation of business. Did this occur? “Cannibalisation did not...

The idea of a Government- sponsored web-based pension planning tool has been around for quite some time. Back in the early noughties Labour’s DWP secretary of state Andrew Smith outlined an online planner,...

Chair of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and MD of PTL, one of the most widely used professional independent trustees, Richard Butcher can accurately be described...