A record level of organisations worldwide are now carrying out a long-term risk analysis following the outbreak of COVID-19, new research by the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) has found.
Three in four defined benefit (DB) pension schemes in the UK are set to use contingency funding to manage their risks amid significant changes to the economic and regulatory environment.
Almost half of the world's most influential companies do not expect to see a return to ‘normal’ business until sometime in 2022, as opposed to nearly a third who think it will happen later this year.
There is now an almost 20-year gap in healthy life expectancy between people living in the poorest and most affluent areas of England, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveal.
None of the world's largest greenhouse gas-emitting companies have fully disclosed how they will achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner, investors have warned.
UK pension schemes could be overestimating their liabilities by up to 3.5% as a result of their failure to consider the long-term impacts of COVID-19, research by the XPS Pensions Group suggests.
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has today opened a consultation on plans to create a single code of practice that is clearer and more accessible than existing guidelines.
Asset managers are keeping UK pension funds in the dark on how they exercise their voting rights and engage with the companies they invest in, a study by Dalriada Trustees has found.
The US is the number one market that CEOs are looking to for growth over the next year, while the UK has surpassed India to become the fourth most attractive country.
