2015

Flood Re has said it is on track to build its £2.1bn reinsurance protection programme after its first tender was oversubscribed.

Financial information processor Equiniti is sponsoring university research into whether biometric technology could help pension firms defend themselves against online fraud.

A consultation has started about developing a Retirement Quality Mark as a companion to the Pension Quality Mark (PQM).

More than half of retirement savers are unsure of tax rules following the launch of pension freedoms, employee benefits consultancy Portus Consulting has said.

An overwhelming majority of people coming up to retirement fear that a stock market crash like that of 2008 will affect their pension.

Fidelity International has called on chancellor George Osborne to use his Autumn Statement next week to defer the tapered annual allowance, which is due to take effect in April 2016.

Motorists deprived of their cars may feel anger and panic and nearly 40% of them would sooner be separated from their family than from their car.

Insurers could find their capital under strain from the unpredictable effects of climate change, market rating firm Standard & Poor’s has warned.

Pension funds across advanced economies performed strongly in 2014 with assets topping $25tn for the first time, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has said.

Trustees of UK private sector defined benefit schemes see their greatest challenge as ensuring their approach to funding is fully integrated and risk based