National Fertility Awareness Week took place at the beginning of November, and offers an opportunity for HR teams and employers to reflect on the support structures they have in place for women...
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...
Two new entrants are expected to enter the UK buy-in market in 2024 — according to pension consultants LCP. Increased activity in this area, which has seen a record volume of buy-in...
The pension minister Emma Reynolds used her speech to the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association conference in Liverpool in mid-October to confirm her “steadfast commitment” to the Pension Dashboards project. The pensions...
At Scottish Widows, we are proud of our signatory status to the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) 2020 Stewardship Code. Our approach supports our climate action plan designed within the Paris Aligned Investment...
The huge expansion of pensions under auto-enrolment has created a far more diverse membership base — and regulation is only starting to catch up. Describing the shift, Aviva head of savings and...
Progress is definitely being made by the group critical illness (CI) market as statistics from Swiss Re’s Group Watch show (see Box) In-force group CI policies (both employer-paid and voluntary) were 11.6 per...
