PensionBee tests IPO appetite amongst customers
Online pension provider PensionBee is giving customers the opportunity to become shareholders if it floats on the London Stock Exchange but says it has not made a decision yet as to whether...
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‘Global approach’ key rationale for sending employees abroad – Axa Global research
Building a global approach to business has overtaken improving business operations as the main rationale for sending employees to work abroad, a major new survey from Axa Global Healthcare has found. The...
Romance scams soar in pandemic
Romance scams have soared by a fifth during the pandemic, with Action Fraud, the National Fraud & Cyber Crime Reporting Centre, part of the Police, revealing 20 per cent increase in bank...
New normal pension age of 57 ‘could trigger knee-jerk retirement’
Pension schemes will be free to decide how and when to move to the new Normal Minimum Pension Age (NMPA) of age 57 by 2028, meaning some may raise theirs earlier than...
Gallagher takes on WTW global benefits head
Gallagher’s Benefits and HR Consulting Division has named Dieter Gistelinck as managing consultant, global workforce strategy & consulting, responsible for developing the Gallagher Global Workforce Strategy consulting portfolio as a Europe, Middle East and...
Pension Schemes Act brings CDC and dashboards to statute book
The Pensions Schemes Bill received its Royal Assent today, becoming the Pensions Schemes Act 2021, giving legal weight to the structure for the implementation of collective DC (CDC) schemes, the introduction of...
Financial resilience plummets for millions during lockdown – FCA
The number of consumers with low financial resilience has soared from 10.7m to 14.2m during 2020 as the pandemic took its toll on UK households, a bleak report from the FCA has...
Chuka Ummuna takes ESG role at JP Morgan
Chuka Ummuna, the former Labour politician and MP for Streatham, has joined JP Morgan to lead its European environmental, social and governance (ESG) operations. Ummuna joins JP Morgan form communications firm Edelmen,...
Phoenix brings in five from Aon, LCP, KPMG and WTW
Phoenix Group has boosted its bulk annuity team with five new appointments. Priyesh Patel has joined as an investment analyst, while the company has also recruited Shoyab Alli, Sam Young, Miles Smith...
Warwick-Thompson and Day join Cushon trustee board
Cushon has appointed Independent Trustee Services client director Dianne Day and former executive director for regulatory policy at The Pensions Regulator Andrew Warwick-Thompson as independent trustees. Cushon is also bringing in Julius Pursaill...
