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Punter Southall Aspire has joined the industry trade body, Group Risk Development (Grid) The employee benefits consultancy said it was keen to support an organisation that gives the group risk industry a...

Royal London has confirmed it is in “exploratory discussions” about a potential takeover of the mutual LV=. These talks comes after LV= members voted against a takeover by the US private equity...

The health of the UK's Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes continued to improve in the fourth quarter of 2021, with the average scheme expected to be able to fund 98.4 per cent...

Savers are at risk of losing out if the proposed Value For Money (VFM) framework is not included on pension dashboards, according to B&CE, provider of The People’s Pension According to new...

The Bank of England has raised interest rates to 0.5 per cent making it the highest it’s ever been in over 30 years. This comes after an inflation increase of 5.4 per...

Total critical illness claims for cancer fell by 24 per cent in the first year of the pandemic, according to new claims data from Royal London. This comes as many people postponed...

59 per cent of SME employees in the north of England believed their employer actively looked after their well-being, compared to 88 per cent in the south, indicating a north/south divide, according...

Trustees have criticised government plans to use £16 billion from the Local Government Pension Scheme for ‘levelling up’ projects, calling the proposals ‘ridiculous’ which could see these local authority schemes used as...

Defined contribution pension schemes could improve employee returns while reducing risk by incorporating alternative assets into default funds, according to the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI). The report, sponsored by the Association of...

DB pension scheme deficits have continued to increase during January, despite rising bond yields. Figures from Mercer’s latest pension risk survey showed that deficits for the DB schemes of the UK’s 350...