UK

The majority of people in the UK are feeling positive about their finances for 2024, with optimism the cost of living crisis is starting to abate.  The research by Aegon found over...

Employee benefits provider Unum UK has enhanced its carer’s leave  by giving all staff with caring responsibilities up to 5 days paid leave a year. This will be available to Unum’s 850 plus...

The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) has established an industry group to assess the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI) to the actuarial sector. With AI developing rapidly, the AI steering group...

A former pension scheme trustee has been given a 10-month jail term after admitting to using £700,000 of members’ funds to make loans to entities connected to the sponsoring employer.  This legal...

Specialist pensions law firm Arc Pensions Law has expanded its team with the appointment of two new associates. Clare Pollard has joined the firm's Leeds office while Tom Cosgrove joins its London office....

Corporate advisers are being warned they could face an influx of queries from multinational clients after the collapse of the international PMI provider Global Benefits Group. The group, which covers health, life,...

Those aged between 50 and 64 are more likely to be absent from work due to ill health than younger age groups.  The Office of National Statistics’ sickness absence data — covering...

Dipa Mistry-Kandola has stepped down from her role as CEO of Cloud8, the employee benefits technology platform acquired by Benefex last October. Cloud8 is a white-labelled software as-a-service provider that was founded...

Women who divorce are missing out on tens of thousands of pensions assets because their legal settlement ignores retirement savings, research from Stowe Family Law has shown. A survey of 400 women...

The FTSE 100 celebrates its 40th birthday tomorrow (Jan 3) - but returns over this period have lagged behind a number of other major stock market indices, after slower growth over the...