Cometh the hour, cometh the cash plan
With dental and optical the top two benefits on healthcare cash plans, the closure of these services during lockdown presented a challenge to the sector. But, by being forced to find other ways...
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Mental health support: assessing effectiveness
The Covid crisis has underlined how important it is for employers, insurers and wellbeing providers to provide effective services to support employees’ mental health. In recent years campaigns run by charities such as...
L&G launches ‘next generation’ group protection platform
Legal & General Insurance and Salary Finance have today launched a digital group insurance platform that enables employees to dial up or down cover across group life, income protection and critical illness...
Soaring PI costs restricting access to transfer advice – PFS
The soaring cost of professional indemnity insurance is impacting consumers ability to access pension freedoms, with a third seeing an increase of more than 50 per cent since last year. Research from...
Low adoption of video pension surgeries
Just 17 per cent of employers are using video conferencing for pension surgeries despite increased home working, research from Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing has shown. The research, which was conducted in...
L&G extends lead as UK’s biggest DC pension provider
Legal & General has extended its lead as the biggest UK DC pensions provider, growing its assets to £98.8bn by the end of June 2020, up 14 per cent year on year....
Aviva Master Trust switches to fully-integrated ESG default
The Aviva Master Trust Trustees is adopting the ESG-integrated My Future Focus as the standard default investment strategy for the Aviva Master Trust The scheme’s trustees’ have formulated their own set of...
Tobin Murphy-Coles appointed PES CEO
Tobin Murphy-Coles, the benefits consultancy and tech innovator, has joined PES as its new CEO. Murphy-Coles retains his roles of executive adviser to engagement fintech Earthmiles and consultant to fintech workplace savings...
‘Industry first’ instant claims for WPA health app
WPA Health App has been updated to provide instant health insurance claims authorisations, a development the provider is describing as a first in the UK health insurance market. The new feature allows...
Tilts, exclusions and stewardship in new Standard Life ESG default
Phoenix Group is launching a new ESG DC default solution for Standard Life schemes that tilts up green technology solutions by 50 per cent and reduces carbon intensity down by the same...
