7+ hour, 45+ min ago  (235+ words) Canada Life has appointed Rhian Littlewood as strategic delivery director, bulk purchase annuities (BPA). Littlewood will help shape Canada Life's growing footprint in the BPA market and will join the BPA Senior Leadership Team, reporting to BPA managing director Shreyas…...

7+ hour, 30+ min ago  (255+ words) Benifex has appointed Mohamad Awada to be its chief services officer. In this role he will lead Benifex's global professional services and consulting functions from London, with a focus on scaling the scaling the company's service functions, delivering good customer…...

12+ hour, 32+ min ago  (333+ words) The Iran conflict, which escalated in the second half of Q1, triggered a 22. 5 per cent quarter by quarter decline in deal value and a 12. 4 per cent drop in deal count across European private equity, according to Pitch Book data. Public markets…...

7+ hour, 30+ min ago  (255+ words) Benifex has appointed Mohamad Awada to be its chief services officer. In this role he will lead Benifex's global professional services and consulting functions from London, with a focus on scaling the scaling the company's service functions, delivering good customer…...

7+ hour, 3+ min ago  (285+ words) Trustees should consider how a covenant is impacted by geopolitical volatility and factor that into assessment of covenant reliability, according to consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock. The statement comes at a time of ongoing geopolitical instability, with the US-Israeli war with…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (616+ words) Corporate Adviser Collective defined contribution pension schemes (CDCs) offer opportunities for better retirements than traditional DC schemes. That prize is eye-catching: the DWP's own recent press release claimed "retirement incomes could increase by as much as 60 per cent. Others have…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (449+ words) I have spent two decades talking to financial planners about technology and learned one thing which is that the profession is the ultimate chameleon." We've evolved from the manual grind of stock picking to the efficiency of MPS solutions, and…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (164+ words) Origen Financial Services has appointed James Ellison as head of corporate pensions. Ellison joined the firm in April 2026 and leads pension-related corporate and trustee engagements, providing support, guidance and advisory services to employees and pension scheme members, alongside responsibility for…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (255+ words) The UK government is to give an annual payment of "70 to approximately one million individuals in net-pay schemes. People earning "10, 000 or more are automatically enrolled into a pension, but this figure is below the "12, 570 personal allowance threshold for paying income…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (314+ words) More people are using private health insurance for treatment, with a record 500, 000 admissions in the first nine months of 2025, while NHS waiting lists remained broadly unchanged. PHIN and NHS England data show Q1 Q3 admissions were the highest on record for this…...