Over a third (38 per cent) of pension scheme trustees with fiduciary managers are planning to review their manager before mid-June according to new research by Hymans Roberston. The pension consultants said...
There is a clear opportunity for advisers to offer more ‘intergenerational’ financial planning, with two-thirds of people accessing financial advice using the same adviser as their parents. This research, by Prudential, suggests...
Logins to WPA’s health app increased by a factor of 12 during lockdown, with over 200,000 customer engagements with it in the year to February 2021. The app, which gives a claims...
The average woman in her twenties is projected to accrue £100k less in her pension pot than a man of the same age and would have to work an estimated 37 extra...
ClearGlass Analytics, the fintech pensions data platform founded by Chris Sier, has closed a £2.6m funding round. ClearGlass’s rapid growth has led to it advising almost half the £1.5 trillion of assets...
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought home to employers and employees the true value of group risk insurance, both in terms of the core insurance and associated health and wellbeing benefits. For many years...
Despite the pandemic, the UK sickness absence rate has fallen to 1.8 per cent in 2020, the lowest recorded level since the data time series began in 1995, according to figures from...
The industry response to the publication of the eagerly anticipated report from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) about how to tackle the small pots problem only served to underline what...
The Organistion for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is dropping the concept of annuitisation as a headline priority for quality DC plans. In a consultation published today, the Paris-based thinktank has proposed...
The government will look to create more flexibility for pension schemes to invest in illiquid and infrastructure assets, as part of a Budget pledge to help rebuild a ‘greener’ economy after the...
