employee benefits

Employee Benefits

Metlife appoints head of global employee benefits

MetLife has named executive vice president James Reid as head of its global employee benefits business.

clock 30 January 2018 • 1 min read

Employee Benefits

The SME gap is the biggest challenge for employee benefits

Flexible and voluntary benefits within small-to-medium enterprises offer most effective solution for closing employment benefit gap, MetLife UK research finds.

clock 26 January 2018 • 1 min read

Employee Benefits

Fit for Work: the undeniable truth

Why did Fit for Work really fail? What now for SME's? And how can intermediaries help? By Carl Laidler, director of screening programmes at Health Shield Wellbeing gives his view.

clock 25 January 2018 • 5 min read

Employee Benefits

Unum acquires Polish insurer Pramerica Życie

Unum is to acquire Pramerica Życie, an insurer based in Poland, from a subsidiary of Prudential Financial (PFI.)

clock 24 January 2018 • 1 min read

Employee Benefits

Just 2% of gig workers have access to insurance via their workplace

Just 2% of gig economy workers have access to life Insurance, income protection or life insurance via their gig company, according to new research by Zurich UK.

clock 24 January 2018 • 2 min read

Employee Benefits

Canada Life extends BusinessCare to all CLASS policies

Canada Life Group Insurance has made BusinessCare, the business and legal support service, available to all CLASS policyholders.

clock 22 January 2018 • 1 min read

Group Protection

Employers risk losing staff by not communicating group risk benefits effectively

This January, one in five people are looking for a new job, with almost half of them seeking better offers elsewhere. More effective communication of group risk benefits would help recruit and retain staff, research by GRiD has revealed.

clock 10 January 2018 • 2 min read

Group Protection

Employees prefer alternative names for 'group' insurance products

Research from Canada Life suggests that renaming 'group' insurance products would make them more easily understandable to employees and therefore more sellable.

clock 09 January 2018 • 2 min read

Employee Benefits

Trends for 2018: Employee benefits

John Dean and Cheryl Brennan of Punter Southall Health & Protection shine a light on the dynamics they expect to dominate the employee benefits market in 2018.

clock 09 January 2018 • 3 min read

Employee Benefits

Embark and Mazars consolidate employee benefits businesses

Embark Group and Mazars have consolidated their employee benefits businesses - to be renamed 'Vested' - while Mazars will acquire financial planning firm RCL Consultancy from Embark.

clock 07 December 2017 • 2 min read