UK

Wellbeing’ has moved from being a buzzword to a key issue in the employee benefits industry following the Covid-19 pandemic.  But to date, much of the focus has been on employees’ physical...

Aon has created 13 new partners in its business. All are UK-based employees working in its global wealth and health solutions teams. These new partners include:  Chintan Gandhi, who joined Aon in...

Bulk annuity providers are the latest financial services companies to be taking steps to improve their ESG procedures. Willis Towers Watson’s annual bulk annuity survey found of all eight providers had taken...

LifeSight master trust will invest almost $1bn (£734m) into a new climate transition index fund, which aims to rate individual companies on their ability to shift towards a low carbon economy. This fund...

All financial firms and FTSE-listed companies will be required to publish plans on how they plan to transition to net zero under proposed new rules from the Treasury. The plans, outlined at...

The House of Lords has rejected government plans to scrap the triple lock on state pension for this year. In a debate on this legislation, peers backed an amendment put down by...

UK employers will need to do more in future to help employees meet the challenges of caring for older relatives, according to Aon. The benefits and health solutions firm pointed out that...

Aegon Asset Management has become the latest fund manager to sign up to the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. Its parent company, Aegon NV has also signed up to the Net Zero...

DB pension scheme deficits continued to increase last month, driven by falling corporate bond yields and no let-up in inflation.  Mercer’s pensions risk survey shows that the scheme deficits of FTSE350 companies...

Former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann is leading a House of Lords campaign to get the government to re-introduce the triple lock on pensions this year, to protect the poorest pensioners. In...