Health and wellbeing services provider healthcare rm has launched a new support, advice and treatment service that covers musculoskeletal health as well as mental health. Called YourHalo, which stands for Your Health...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued a consultation to understand how occupational pension scheme trustees fulfil their duty to assess social factors in their stewardship activities, following ministerial concerns...
Hymans Robertson has promoted Shabna Islam to lead its master trust research and manage the firm’s relationships with DC product providers. Islam has almost 15 years’ experience in the pensions industry, having...
Pension tax relief remains untouched but a string of technical anomalies are to be ironed out in this year’s package of ‘tax day’ consultations. The Treasury has issued 30 consultations on technical...
Pensions experts are calling for the government to rethink plans for the triple lock, after the latest Office of National Statistics report shows annual earnings growth of around 4.8 per cent. There...
Three out of four DB schemes are planning to use contingent funding to manage schemes risk according to the latest report from LCP. More schemes are expected to go down this route...
The TUC is calling for the government to delay raising the state pension on the back of new ONS figures showing the widening life expectancy gap between wealthier and more deprived areas....
Amazon is launching itself as a healthcare provider to employers in the United States, offering medical care and advice, with a 24/7 service that offers in-app chat or video conference diagnosis, home...
Pension schemes are failing to take into account the mortality impact of Covid-19, and could be overestimating liabilities by up to 3.5 per cent, according to XPS. Its Covid-19 Impact Analytics provides...
Mercer has appointed Niall Alexander as its new senior DC investment consultant. Alexander, who joins from River and Mercantile Solutions, will advise clients on strategic investment issues. In this role he will...
