UK

Callum Beaton has been appointed president of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), succeeding Nicola Stacey ACII, while Debbie Mitchell DipPFS serves as deputy president in 2026. Beaton began his career in insurance...

The industry saw significant senior appointments across the pensions and employee benefits sector in 2025, as firms expanded leadership teams, revived advisory capabilities and strengthened their defined contribution and workplace savings strategies....

The biggest deals of the year in the UK pensions and employee benefits sector mostly landed in December, with WTW buying Cushon and Gallagher taking over First Actuarial. Here is a dive...

The pensions sector saw a string of high-profile developments in 2025, from HMRC overhauling pension tax after £1.3bn in overpayments and annuity rates hitting new highs, to master trust assets crossing £25bn,...

Generative AI chatbots are proving capable of answering most pension member queries accurately and safely, with new research showing one scheme’s AI tool successfully resolved around 90 per cent of questions without...

Pension savers call for simpler and more accessible pensions, with nearly four in five valuing control over how their retirement savings are invested, according to Pensions UK research. The research shows email...

Group life schemes provide employees with a cheap and impactful benefit. In reality, few of us will die while of working age, but for those that do, a substantial lump sum can...

Utmost Group has agreed to sell its bulk purchase annuity (BPA) business, Utmost Life and Pensions (ULP), to JAB Insurance. The sale includes the entire ULP business, which holds more than £5bn...

Employees working just two days a week on the new National Living Wage will now qualify for auto-enrolment pensions, according to Standard Life. According to the analysis, from April 2026, the National...

Hargreaves Lansdown has partnered with Smart-owned technology platform Keystone in a multi-phase investment to upgrade its Workplace business. According to the firms, the multi-million-pound deal will improve employer administration and allow employees...