14.4m working days lost due to poor sleeping habits
Poor sleep is a major contributor to absence in the workplace, contributing to around 14.4m sick days a year, according to the latest data from Canada Life. Its research found that one in...
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Mixed reaction to DWP proposals on improving trustee skills
The pension industry is broadly supportive of government proposals to improve pension trustee skills. In response to the Department of Work and Pension’s consultation on this issue, which closed today, a number...
Cross-party roadmap needed to implement pension reforms: Aegon
Pension companies are calling for a cross-party ‘grand implementation plan’ to ensure wide-reaching reforms, currently being proposed, are introduced in managed stages over the next decade. A host of DWP consultations close...
Mental and emotional health identified as biggest employee wellbeing risk: Aon
The largest employee wellbeing risks are mental and emotional health as highlighted by 52 per cent of UK respondents in a new survey from Aon. According to Aon’s 2022-2023 Global Wellbeing Survey,...
Govt tax coffers soar on rising IPT receipts
Money raised from insurance premium tax rose by 10 per cent in the last financial year, giving the government record revenues of £7.89bn from this tax. Analysis by OAC, part of the...
Howden appoints new UK consumer health & life MD
Howden has appointed Mike Dalby as managing director of its UK consumer health & life business. Dalby, who joins Howden from AXA Health where he spent more than two years as a...
Kendall takes on work and pensions brief in shadow cabinet reshuffle
Liz Kendall will be Labour’s new shadow work and pensions secretary, replacing the previous incumbent Jon Ashworth. This change was announced by the Labour leader Keir Starmer this morning as part of...
LCP warns of potential new generation of gender pension inequality
Progress made in closing gender inequities in state pensions may be undermined if disparities between men and women employment DC pension benefits continue to increase, according to a new analysis from LCP....
Standard Life launches new annuity option
Standard Life has launched a new annuity option, after higher rates have increased demand for these guaranteed income products. This launch comes after Standard Life’s research showed that certainty of income in...
Former Scottish Widows head Nazarova-Doyle joins IFM
Former Scottish Widows head of responsible investments and stewardship Maria Nazarova-Doyle has joined IFM Investors as executive director. Nazarova-Doyle, who announced her departure from Scottish Widows in July, will be leading the firm’s...
