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As 2024 draws to a close  it is clear that consolidation has been a dominant theme for the DC pensions market this year — not just among providers but also for the sector’s...

Kerry Baldwin runs a ‘deep tech’ venture capital fund and chairs the government body looking to facilitate greater DC investment into private markets. She tells Emma Simon why this could deliver benefits...

PIB Employee Benefits, the most recent winner of the Firm of the Year award at the 2024 Corporate Adviser Awards, has in recent years gone through a period of rapid expansion. For...

Emma Simon talks to the Society of Pension Professional’s new president Sophia Singleton about how a new Government and an insightful girl guide might inspire a new approach to retirement savings After...

Pension professionals aren’t usually seen as being natural born rebels, particularly those that have worked in the industry for 40-plus years, have sat on the boards of major providers and chaired government...

Group protection sales may be on the up, with 900,000 new members covered on these workplace policies last year, but the new chair of the trade body, Group Risk Development (Grid) Colin...

Like most large pension providers Scottish Widows is enjoying stellar growth, with auto-enrolment helping boost its assets under management from £32 billion to £92 billion in recent years.  But Scottish Widows workplace...

At both work and play, it’s fair to say that Roger Brosch, CEO of Foster Denovo, is a very busy man. While not training for endurance events, cycling or satisfying his passion...

It can be a tough market for employee benefit consultants, given rising regulatory and insurance costs and the need to invest in technology, which continues to develop at pace.  This has driven consolidation...

The growing number of retirement renters is the biggest threat to retirement adequacy in the UK, with millions of tenants having no chance of saving enough to pay their landlord out of...