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Aviva Health has appointed Dr Jochem Caris as its new associate medical director. Caris, who was previously a surgical fellow at the London Clinic, reports to Dr Doug Wright, medical director at...

Female employees at Unum will be offered access to Bupa’s menopause plan. Unum says this announcement, on International Women’s Day, is designed to remove the taboo around women’s health.  This plan offers staff...

Over 50 per cent of UK pension funds now hold some form of impact investing, with nine out of 10 of these schemes looking to make these impact investments in the UK...

More than a quarter of women are relying solely on the state pension to fund their retirement - almost twice the number of men, according to new research. On International Women’s Day,...

Abrdn and XPS Pensions Group will launch a new DB pensions master trust in the second quarter of 2022. Abrdn has formed a strategic alliance with XPS Pensions Group. The asset manager...

Retired men in the UK have 70 per cent more income from private and public pensions than women, according to new data. To mark International Women’s Day, the campaign group Women Against...

Carbon credits are here to stay, that much was made certain at COP26 when the agreement on carbon markets was reached. This change to the agreement, known as Article 6, in practical...

How are net-zero commitments changing the workplace pensions landscape? Over the past 12 months there has been a significant increase in the number of companies making a commitment to be net zero...

Employee benefits broker Direct Healthline has been bought by Partners& for an undisclosed sum.  Partners& also announced it was entering into a strategic partnership with advice firm Advo Group, which will see...

Pension funding level have remained resilient over the past month, despite the crisis in Ukraine causing disruption and volatility across global markets. XPS’s DB UK funding tracker shows that total scheme assets...