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Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing has partnered with low cost health insurer Equipsme. Howden says this partnership will enable it to offer new options to employers who want to extend health benefits...

More than one in three savers want ‘greener’ pension options - but the vast majority of consumers do not know whether their retirement savings are environmentally-friendly.   New research from Scottish Widows...

The lower paid could opt out of workplace pensions, but still receive financial contributions from their employer, under radical industry proposals to reform the auto-enrolment system.  The industry-body TISA (the Investing and...

Up to 1.5m scheme members are still owed backdated payments due to the equalisation of guaranteed minimum payments — and in some cases refunds could be worth up to £25,000. This research...

Employee benefits software company Cloud8 has appointed Dipa Mistry Kandola as its new client strategy director.  Mistry Kandola will also join the firm’s board of directors.  In this new role Mistry Kandola...

Aon has appointed six of its senior employees to be partners in the global business.  Among those appointed are Tony Britton, who currently leads the strategy for Aon’s UK DC product suits,...

Corporate credit downgrades caused by the Covid crisis present a serious challenge for UK pension funds, according to Axa Investment Managers.  Since the start of the pandemic rating agencies have downgraded more...

Hymans Robertson has appointed Simon Mortimer to the new role of chief digital officer.  Mortimer joins from the Body Shop where her was vice president of digital, covering the USA and Canada....

Over 50 per cent of pension transfers carried out since the Covid crisis have triggered a scam warning.  This data was compiled for the Work and Pension Select Committe by XPS Pensions...

Ditching the state pension triple lock in favour of a ‘double lock’ is unlikely to save the government  money, according to a new policy paper from the Pensions Policy Institute. It recommends...