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Lisa Varley has joined Aon's risk settlement team as a senior consultant. Varley has nearly ten years of industry experience and comes to Aon from Aviva, where she was a bulk annuity...

Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company, a MetLife subsidiary, announced today that it has completed a significant longevity reinsurance transaction involving an unnamed U.K. pension scheme, with Zurich acting as an intermediary. MetLife's...

Just Group has completed a full scheme buy-in agreement with the Trustee of a scheme sponsored by a global distribution company, insuring almost 1,000 deferred members and achieving record 2021 sales. This...

Goldman Sachs Asset Management has appointed Christy Jesudasan to lead the sales and distribution of its UK fiduciary management business, based in London. Christy grew fiduciary management businesses at BMO, Kempen, and...

Standard Life is to start switching its existing workplace default funds into more sustainable investment strategies. This process, which will phased in over 2022, will see changes made to the pension funds...

Aon has appointed Jenny Davidson as trustee director of its £1.4bn master trust. Davidson, who represents BESTrustees has worked for 40 years in the pensions industry for a number of private sector...

Traditional messages around not saving enough for retirement are not working, and the industry needs to find new ways to engage people, according to Cushon head of workplace savings Danny Meehan. Meehan...

A simplified advice regime could leave advisers and providers open to future mis-selling claims, and may not solve the problems in the at-retirement market, warned  Syndaxi Financial Planning director Robert Reid. One...

People want to know how their pension affects the world on a social and non-financial level and do not just want to focus on their financial performance, according to Scottish Widows master...

The effects of climate change are becoming more palpable, and various stakeholders – including non-governmental organisations, investors, and communities – are increasingly turning towards climate litigation. Consequently, the number of climate change-related...