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Global health company Medigo has set up a new second medical opinion service, which will also offer worldwide medical concierge services.  This new product - known as GlobalCare - will be available...

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has published a new guide for trustees to ensure schemes comply with new environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements coming into force at the start of...

Punter Southall Health & Protection will be rebranded as Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing, following its acquisition by the group.  Howden - which is owned by Hyperion Insurance Group - purchased this...

Employers are seriously underestimating the chances of their workforce being affected by serious illness or bereavement in the year ahead, according to new research. The survey by Group Risk Development (GRiD), the...

Jesal Mistry is joining Legal & General Investment Management as business development director.  Mistry joins from Hymans Robertson, where he was head of DC scheme design and provider evaluation. Prior to this Mistry...

Financial advisers are wasting an average of 43 days a year with onboarding tasks that could be automated by technology, according to new research.  The research found that parts of the advice...

Mattioli Woods has appointed Sean McSweeney as its new employee benefits team director. In this newly created role McSweeney will oversee the wealth managers' employee benefit consultants.  McSweeney joins from Chase de Vere,...

Corporate culture and working practices are having a negative impact on expat employees wellbeing, according to a new survey from Aetna International.  The global health insurer surveyed 2,000 expat employees to discover what...

The Chartered Insurance Institute is calling for insurers to tackle gender bias within their artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.  Many insurers now use this AI technology within their claims, underwriting and marketing processes. However...

Companies want to increase employee engagement with benefit programmes, but the majority are spending less than £5,000 a year on related communications.  Aon’s annual benefits and trends survey found that 98 per...