UK

Last week’s announcement that Smart Pension has made a strategic investment into two Octopus Energy Generation funds is more than just good news for clean energy, it also shows how UK pension...

PIB Employee Benefits has acquired international benefits specialist Atwood Benefits UK for an undisclosed sum.  Atwood Benefits is a consultancy firm working with international companies operating in the UK, and assists them with...

Advisers today are navigating a growing challenge. Employers are under pressure to deliver more value to their people while managing tighter budgets and responding to rising employee expectations. At the same time, the workforce is more diverse,...

Generative AI and behavioural data are driving new healthtech developments, enabling providers to offer more personalised support for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing. But as cost pressures grow and employee benefit spending...

Wellbeing services have become a standard feature across the group risk and healthcare market in recent years — with many focused on improving member health to reduce both the number and severity...

Defined contribution (DC) pension scheme members have seen further improvements in their expected retirement incomes in 2025, according to Hymans Robertson. This is according to the analysis of its latest DC Provider...

Pension consultants Hymans Robertson and provider TPT Retirement Solutions have been confirmed as signatories to the Financial Report Council’s UK Stewardship Code.  This is a voluntary code. Those who become a signatory...

Hargreaves Lansdown has appointed Nathan Long as its targeted support lead. Long joined Hargreaves Lansdown as an investor line consultant back in 2003. Most recently, he served as senior policy analyst, responsible...

More than one in two firms working across the pensions industry now offer apprenticeship programmes according to the Society of Pension Professionals (SPP). A total of 52 per cent firms now offer...

Rachel Reeves’ growth-at-all-costs juggernaut rumbles on and now it’s the turn of the Pensions Regulator to jump – or rather, be forced – onto the bandwagon. In a speech called “Pension regulation...