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Aviva has become the first major insurer worldwide to target net zero carbon by 2040, a target it describes as ‘the most demanding of any major insurance company in the world’. The...

Aegon has today appointed Lorna Blyth to the newly created position of investment proposition director, joining from Royal London where she was head of investment solutions. She will be responsible for driving...

Canada Life will now offers its WeCare virtual support package to all group income protection customers.  Canada Life has offered this service to its CLASS customers since November 2020. WeCare, which is...

Sponsored content The value of group protection hasn’t changed. The need for people to protect their life, their ability to earn an income and to keep a roof over their heads remains....

Traditionally group protection and its individually-advised counterpart have been worlds apart, with corporate plans having entirely different underwriting processes and pricing to retail cover. But as employers look to get ‘more for...

In March 2020, as independent hospitals made their capacity available to the NHS to fight Covid-19 and private treatment was postponed, the future of group medical insurance seemed very uncertain. But, while 2021...

Big Data and technology can play an important role in helping pension fund members reach optimal retirement outcomes. Pension providers and schemes sit on a huge amounts member data that covers fund values,...

Master trust v GPP. TPR v FCA.  DWP  v Treasury. Will either side of the workplace pension sector ever achieve supremacy? Or will it be a case of horses for courses, where the two...

Almost half (44 per cent) of advisers believe resolving customer problems has become harder while home working, while just 12 per cent of insurers share that view, according to research from The...

Developing structures to facilitate long term saving has been core to David C. John’s work for four decades. As well as co-developing a low cost product wrapper now being adopted by states across...