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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...

Originally from Winnipeg, the home of Canada Life, it was as CEO of the UK arm of that insurer that Doug Brown made the switch to Aviva in 2021, succeeding Aviva Life’s...

There is now a plethora of wellbeing services, products and apps available to companies and their employees — covering everything from stop-smoking programmes, daily step ‘challenges’, financial coaching, neurodiversity support, menopause advice,...

Diversity, inclusion and equity — or DE&I — may have become  a buzzword across the financial services industry in recent years, but this relatively new three-letter acronym refers to many age-old and...