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The latest inflation data reveals that the headline rate of Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 8.7 per cent for the 12-month period ending in May 2023, according to the latest ONS...

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) review has identified room for improvement in pension transfers as varying approaches complicate regulations. The DWP found that 94 per cent of transfers went through with...

Broadstone has appointed Alex McNiven as business protection specialist. McNiven joins Broadstone from A-One Insurance Group where he was most recently the protection & health insurance manager. He has worked in the...

SEI has appointed Sneha Shah as an executive vice president and head of new business ventures. Shah, who will be reporting to CEO Ryan Hicke, will lead new business and platform identification...

Phoenix Group calls for state pension reforms to prevent poverty from worsening as the state pension age increases. The most recent study from Phoenix Insights a ground-breaking year-long study working with the...

Defined benefit transfers activity has declined significantly in recent months, with the cash lump sums available to those looking to switch falling by around a third over the last year. Analysis by...

Just Group has appointed Dan Ryan to be its director of demographic risk. Ryan has three decades of experience in the insurance industry as a medical demographer, and is well-known speaker on...

Nest Invest’s chief executive Mark Fawcett has been an awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for services to pension saving in King Charles’s first birthday honours list.  Fawcett is a...

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is calling for pension funds to prioritise social responsibility when making investment decisions.  As part of this it wants pension funds to look at the issue...

There are now more than 9.2m people waiting for treatment on the NHS across the four nations of the UK, according to analysis of the latest government data. This is an increase...