Moneyhub has partnered with Independent financial advice firm WPS Advisory to launch LifeStage, a financial wellbeing app. LifeStage, which was created to assist employees in making well-informed decisions, gives them a comprehensive...
Private healthcare admissions in the UK reached 232,000 in Q2 2024, a 5 per cent increase over the same quarter the previous year and the second-highest quarterly total ever, behind Q1 2024...
UK SME leaders are prioritising employee wellbeing, with 92 per cent willing to pay higher insurance premiums for enhanced wellbeing services. According to a survey of 500 senior managers from UK SMEs,...
The proportion of employers tracking staff with disabilities rose significantly from 50 per cent in 2023 to 71 per cent in 2024, according to Grid. The number of disabled employees increased from...
Mercer has appointed Deborah Frost as the new chair of trustees of the Mercer Master Trust, effective from April 2025. Frost has held executive, non-executive, and board director positions in the technology...
Nearly one in five UK adults have experienced family disputes due to a lack of conversations about inheritance planning, with a quarter believing that avoiding these discussions could lead to future conflicts,...
An investigation by the Pensions Ombudsman’s Pensions Dishonesty Unit (PDU) has resulted in a £5.2m repayment order for trustees found personally liable for breaching their duties and facilitating pension liberation arrangements. Trustees...
BBC soap Eastenders has featured a pension scam storyline with a long-running character, 61-year-old Jean Slater, who is scammed into transferring her pension into a “high return investment” after receiving what she...
Half of UK DC savers worry they can't save enough for retirement, with concerns about pension contributions and retiring "with dignity," while younger generations show strong interest in automated savings solutions, according...
DB scheme trustees should consider more than just price when selecting an insurer for buy-in or buy-out, according to Hymans Robertson's new paper. According to the paper, as schemes go towards buy-out...
