Vitality’s cover now includes access to its employee challenges feature, built into the app, which supports better health and wellbeing across teams. Employee challenges are an interactive digital tool that promotes physical...
Smart Pension is investing £330m - 5 per cent of its default fund - into two funds looking to help transition the UK to cleaner energy sources. Both funds are managed by...
Nest, Smart Pension and consultancy firm XPS Group have connected to the pensions dashboard programme. This is the first stage of the dashboards programme, with connection to a centralised dashboard run by...
The Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) has been commissioned to prepare a report on the state pension age as part of the third state pension age review. The review will evaluate how current...
Schroders now manages more than £500m in assets across 10 defined benefit schemes through Enplan, the consolidation platform developed by Entrust and Isio. The milestone comes 18 months after Schroders joined as...
Retirement fintech platform Freedom has named Damian Stancombe as its chief executive officer. Stancombe was previously a partner at Barnett Waddingham and is the founder of 60 Paydays to Retirement, a financial...
The value of DB transfers have increased for the first time this year according to data from XPS Group. Its transfer value index increased to a month-end value of £141,000 on June,...
The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has launched a £1 million programme aimed at tackling the decline in new entrants to the financial advice profession. The three-year initiative called Pathway to the Profession...
Aviva has launched a new ‘flex first, fix later’ guided retirement solution for its workplace customers. This is initially available to those saving through Aviva’s master trust, with a view to rolling...
Death-in-service benefits from a registered scheme will be excluded from inheritance tax when the government brings pensions into the IHT net in 2027. This was confirmed in details published yesterday, setting out...
