Communications consultancy Quietroom has appointed Chloe Taylor to be its first chief executive.  The firm which works across the pensions, investment and insurance sectors has been employee-owned since 2020. Taylor,...

The Ink Group has acquired Wealth Wizards’ employee benefits consulting business. Wealth Wizard, a leading fintech firm was offering employee benefit services to 42 corporate clients, which includeD workplace pension...

Insurers are urging the main political parties to clarify future plans on social care funding, and include firm commitments in their forthcoming election manifestos.  The call by Aegon comes as...

Over a quarter of retirees aged over 55 were forced into retirement because of ill-health, redundancy or to provide care for a family member, according to new figures by Just...

Excess deaths remain above pre-pandemic levels although rates appear at last to be dropping, according to the latest published mortality data. Figures from the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) show that...

People are more willing to actively start planning for retirement from the age of 36, according to new research from Standard Life. The insurer says this age marks a turning point,...

The funding position for UK defined benefit pension schemes continued to improve in September according to the Pension Protection Fund’s 7800 Index. Its latest published data shows the aggregate surplus...

The DB consolidator Pension SuperFund Capital has acquired pensions services company STM Group for £35.6m. The acquisition has been made through Bidco — a company set up by PSF Capital...

Employers risk losing key members of staff during business transformation programmes, as they are failing to specifically address this risk, according to new research.  Mercer Marsh Benefits found that companies...

The insurance industry has made “good progress” on improving board diversity and setting targets on neurodiversity, but progress on increasing the number of apprenticeships has “stalled”. These were the conclusion...