UK

A new report from Scottish Widows reveals a deepening retirement crisis, with 15.3m people heading into retirement poverty - 1.6m more than last year. Despite a modest rise in average projected retirement...

As you might have noticed, UK pension schemes are complicated. Trustee boards and employers have a huge amount of work to do, with financial penalties and reputational damage hanging over their heads...

More than four in five employers, 83 per cent, believe longer working lives are inevitable as life expectancy rises, according to Canada Life. The report, Building Longevity-Ready Workplaces in the UK, calls...

Mis-selling and unsuitable advice now account for the majority of complaints made to the Financial Ombudsman Service regarding financial advisers, according to behavioural finance experts Oxford Risk. According to the analysis, around...

UK pension schemes are making "meaningful progress" on both climate and nature-related goals — despite emerging political headwinds against net zero and ESG initiatives. A new Pensions for Purpose report found 40...

Institutional investors and wealth managers are increasingly positive on the outlook for digital assets - which includes cryptocurrencies, with many seeing these as a useful hedge against inflation and economic instability in...

Unum UK has launched a new health network, in partnership with YoungMinds, as part of its health and wellbeing app, Help@hand aimed at families. Unum has partnered with mental health charity YoungMinds,...

Reframe Cancer has appointed Russell Young as commercial director. Young joins Reframe Cancer from Further Group UK, where he served as director of sales and account management, leading significant growth with insurers...

More than half of senior UK financial services professionals expect their companies to focus less on sustainability and DEI issues in future.  These findings mirror similar research in Europe by CRIF, Europe’s...

TPT Investment Management (TPTIM) has appointed Nick Stacey as its senior investment manager. In this new role, Stacey will be responsible for enhancing TPTIM’s research activities and continuing to develop its private market investment strategy. ...