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It is one of the largest benefits and insurance brokers in the US, but NFP is a brand that few people working in these sectors in the UK will be familiar with....

Glenn Thomas, managing director of Howden Employee Benefits and Wellbeing has seen both sides of the acquisition experience in his quarter century in the employee benefits consultancy sector. As one of the...

For centuries we have come to expect that we will live healthier, longer lives than our parents’ generation. But research led by Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University...

With a couple of decades’ head start on the UK’s auto-enrolment system, Australia’s superannuation market offers numerous insights for British pension professionals. Perhaps most striking is just how huge the market will...

Interviewing Kenneth Clarke MP it is hard not to feel a sense of history. Anecdotes range from telling Margaret Thatcher that it was time to step down, to predicting terrorist atrocities in UK cities...

After four years out of the employee benefits world, Nick Burns, the man who has headed PIFC, Bluefin and Capita Employee Benefits, is now back at the helm of Gallagher Benefit Services...

One day you have the security of a steady job and a regular income, the next you have no clients,  no  routine  and no money coming in. This was the choice made by...

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...

All-out growth or volatility control? When it comes to savers with decades to retirement it is surely one of the greatest questions those charged with managing defaults face. Of the more than 30 default funds reflected in...

It was the year David Hemery won the 400m hurdles Olympic gold medal, The Beatles released The White Album and a young Ron Wheatcroft joined an insurance company that was ultimately to become part of Swiss Re....