UK

The financial health of the DB pension schemes in the UK improved moderately in the second quarter of this year, following the impact of the Covid pandemic in the first three months....

The vast majority of pension savers fear the Covid crisis will have a negative impact on their finances, according to new research from Nest. Nest, the largest pension scheme in the country...

More than half of institutional investors expect most of their ESG investment will be held within passive products within the next five years. This is a significant increase on current portfolios, according...

Healix Health Services is offering a new holistic health proposition to clients, provided by Medical Solutions. This preventative care and support service is an enhancement to the virtual GP service already offered...

Broadstone has appointed Marc Devereux to be its new director of investment consulting. Broadstone says the appointment will help the employee benefits and pension consulting firm further develop its proposition in this...

Pensions red tape risks trapping tens of thousands of pension savers in low returning funds, according to consultants LCP.  The problem concerns savers in workplace pensions who have actively chosen to invest...

The coronavirus pandemic is likely to exacerbate the gender savings gap, with a greater proportion of women saying they will decrease pension contributions in the next six months. Recent research by Aegon...

Bulk annuities sales have proved to be resilient despite difficult market conditions, with almost £13bn of business placed in the first half of this year. According to Aon this is the fourth...

Learning from other countries’ pension reforms is difficult to do as the political and economic context from which such systems emerge are often very different. This means that it is not usually...

I’ve been waiting for a while for anyone to come up with a good argument as to why introducers – particularly those that intervene on DB pension transfers – should not be banned....