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Covid-19 is dominating the corporate healthcare space, with organisations looking at ways to keep employees safe in the workplace. But, with this focus meaning that other serious diseases have gone undiagnosed, a surge...

Dalriada Trustees - one of the UK’s largest independent trustee firms - has appointed with Minerva Analystics to asses asset managers’ ESG and stewardship records.  As part of this partnership Minerva will...

Generali Employee Benefits and Bupa have announced a commercial partnership to support wellbeing programmes for UK employers who work for multinational companies.  This initiative will initially have a focus on Covid-19 and...

XPS Pensions Group has appointed Paul Armitage as the new head for its master trust, The National Pension Trust.  Armitage, who was formerly head of distribution at NPT replaces Dave Hodges who...

Scottish Widows is investing £2bn from its pension portfolios into BlackRock’s new Climate Transition World Equity Fund.  This is the first investment into this fund, which Scottish Widows helped design. The fund takes...

Workplace health, wellbeing and rehabilitation consultancy Sparta Health has joined Group Risk Development, the trade body that lobbies on behalf of the industry.  The company said it had made this decision in...

A cross industry working group has issued new guidance on GMP equalisation, designed to help pension scheme trustees communicate the complexity of these changes to members. This guidance specifically relates to communication...

Only a minority of working adults (44 per cent) feel they understand enough about pensions to make decisions about their retirement, according to new data from the Office of National Statistics. Its...

Three out of four employees don’t have any access to financial education in the workplace, according to new research. The financial wellbeing survey, by Aegon, highlights a shortage of financial education with...

There has been a 400 per cent increase in the usage of the virtual GP since the start of the Covid pandemic, according to one employee benefits insurer. Unum has said that...