UK

Nearly 2 in 5 persons, or 39 per cent, are left using their own funds to pay for the funeral costs of a loved one and 36 per cent have found that the...

The accounting surplus of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes for the UK’s 350 largest listed companies increased marginally to £35bn at the end of December 2022, according to Mercer’s Pensions Risk Survey...

Lumera, a European insurtech company, has joined Grid, the industry body for group risk. According to Lumera, the two organisations have a great cultural match and share the aim of promoting the need...

Broadstone has appointed Chris Rice as head of trustee services. Rice has worked for Broadstone for the past two years at the Bristol office as a senior actuarial director and had 15...

Almost four in ten or 39 per cent people indicated they were not convinced they could afford to retire, according to Hargreaves Lansdown. According to a survey of 1500 persons done by Opinium...

Legal & General Group Protection has appointed Dr Tarun Gupta as its new chief medical officer as Professor Robert Rubens steps down after 30 years of service but stays on as a...

Scottish Widows has appointed Anna Bradley as the new chair of its Independent Governance Committee (IGC). Bradley formerly served as the Zurich Independent Governance Committee's chair and an independent board member. She...

Financial resilience levels have decreased during the last six months, going from 63.7 out of 100 to 60.5, as middle incomes begin to feel the pinch, according to Hargreaves Lansdown. The third...

Personal Finance Society (PFS) president Caroline Stuart has resigned following the accusations of governance failures at the body by its parent, the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) Group. In December the CII decided...

David Fairs, TPR's executive director of regulatory policy, analysis and advice, will be stepping down from his position in March. Fairs, who joined TPR in July 2018, has presided over the implementation...