Zurich

Scottish Widows has enhanced its workplace savings offering in a bid to appeal to larger schemes with more flexible products following its acquisition of Zurich Corporate Savings.

Extending auto-enrolment (AE) to workers in the gig economy could grant them a lump sum of £75,600 at retirement, Zurich and Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) research suggests.

Lloyds Banking Group has agreed to acquire Zurich's UK workplace pensions and savings business, which has assets under administration of more than £15bn and around 500,000 customers.

Defined benefit (DB) schemes will offload around £700bn of liabilities to insurers over the next 15 years, latest analysis by Hymans Robertson has suggested.

Xafinity has made Dave Hodges head of the National Pension Trust to help grow the master trust's proposition.

Default solutions need to be amended to take account of the changing use of funds at retirement since Freedom and Choice was introduced, Zurich has said.

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Hargreaves Lansdown may be the first provider to offer the lifetime ISA (LISA) as it plans to launch the product on the first day possible.

Guidance on transfers to 'suspicious' schemes

The auto-enrolment (AE) programme is at risk of derailment if the government increases contribution rates too rapidly, Zurich has warned.