Technology

Consultancy and administration firm Buck has launched a new digital assessment app for DB schemes trustees and company sponsors. This application will give access to a range of information on how a...

The Money and Pensions Service has appointed Angela Pober as implementation director of the Pensions Dashboard Industry Delivery Group. In this new role Pober will lead the implementation executive of the IDG,...

GBST has upgraded its pension drawdown offering, enabling clients more flexibility about how they take an income in retirement. GBST provides wealth administration software through its composer platform, and said these changes...

Financial advisers are wasting an average of 43 days a year with onboarding tasks that could be automated by technology, according to new research.  The research found that parts of the advice...

The Chartered Insurance Institute is calling for insurers to tackle gender bias within their artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.  Many insurers now use this AI technology within their claims, underwriting and marketing processes. However...

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,...

Although this will initially only be available to US employees, the partnership between Microsoft and BlackRock could provide a seismic shift to the workplace pensions market across the globe. This joint initiative...

Salvus Master Trust is launching a new app to encourage more engagement with members. The app, which will be available on both IOS and Android platforms, will allow members to access information...

Quoted in the Daily Mail this Saturday, the prime minister said: “This Government is committed to helping people plan for their future and making sure they can look forward to a more...

Artificial intelligence is set to shape the healthcare market, delegates were told at an the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries’ Health and Wellbeing summit.  AMII chairman Stuart Scullion says: “I believe...