JLT Employee Benefits

Nick Buckland has been named as a senior investment consultant at JLT Employee Benefits, after leaving Dorset County Council.

FTSE 350 companies may need to reconsider whether to pay dividends after the total deficit has climbed to £207bn by the end of August.

Only 11 companies in the FTSE 250 provide defined benefit (DB) pensions for a significant number of employees, according to JLT Employee Benefits.

The biggest stories on PP this week include an ombudsman ruling in favour of Standard Life and a PP survey revealing the industry does not think climate change is a financially material risk.

JLT Employee Benefits has hired Tony Pike as head of sales in its investment consulting business.

Inflation measured on the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) increased to 0.6% in the year to July 2016 according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

PP asks seven leading risk reduction consultants about deal affordability, the risk reduction exercises being conducted at the moment and how schemes can prepare for a transaction

JLT Employee Benefits has said it will deliver positive revenue growth this year after a major corporate restructure.

Defined benefit schemes in the FTSE 100 increased their total bond allocation to a record £330bn by the end of 2015.

Duncan Howorth has been made executive chairman of Independent Transition Management (ITM).