Technology

F&TRC's Kirsty Tanner asks whether advisers should be doing more to ensure the value and quality of supplementary benefits in income protection (IP.)

VSP Global has announced the development of a prototype combining health-tracking technology into the frames of a pair of glasses.

F&TRC'S Jason Green argues the case for re-evaluating the use of Employee Assistance Programmes in financial wellbeing.

Steve Bee, Founder and CIO of JargonFree, explains how middleware can ensure SME and micro-firm Automatic Enrollment opt outs are minimised

Ceridian has produced a mobile app version of its LifeWorks employee assistance programme (EAP) allowing staff to access the services on the move.

Ellipse has enhanced its online quotation system to provide flex and voluntary quotes for group life (lump sum) and critical illness cover.

LifeQuote has teamed up with advisory service What Protect to provide a protection platform which provides both advised and non-advised solutions.

It is no secret that protection is on the minds of most - if not all - existing retail investment platforms. And the first to come to the fore was Nucleus, with its new investment-linked life assurance proposition.

Actuarial consultancy Punter Southall has found evidence that HR departments are sitting on huge data inaccuracies that leaving staff un-insured, potentially meaning their companies are unknowingly holding millions of pounds worth of self-insured liabilities....

Kudos Financial Services is to release flexible benefits portal software into the employee benefits arena on 20 March.