Group Risk

Pacific Life Re has appointed Soichiro Makimoto as head of its Japan representative office. Makimoto joins from Moody’s Japan and brings more than 25 years of experience across the insurance and banking...

The UK Health & Protection Awards 2025 supplement is out now with all the highlights from the night. It includes all the winners, shortlists, photos from the night and insight into the...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is expecting to receive 4,000 fewer insurance complaints in the 2025-26 year than it originally budgeted for. However, the ombudsman is still planning to increase its compulsory...

Abigail Montrose hears how finding new ways to engage with young adults about cancer is essential if prevention and detection is to improve.   Cancer rates are rising sharply among young people....

Chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) did not increase the rate of Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) as part of her Budget 2025 announcement and the health and protection insurance industries were largely unaffected by...

The government has made several key changes to Inheritance Tax (IHT) including to the adminstration of death benefits through pension schemes, extending the nil rate bands for another year, and expanding the...

Employee benefits solutions provider Clear Insurance Management, part of the Clear Group, is joining group risk industry body Group Risk Development (Grid). Grid said Clear Group was particularly interested in the training...

Misconceptions about income protection (IP) could be behind the persistently low take-up of the product among British workers, according to Shepherds Friendly. Research from the mutual found just 14% of UK adults...

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) executive director of consumers and competition Sheldon Mills is leaving the regulator, according to a report. Mills, who joined the FCA in 2018, will step down in the...

Sir Charlie Mayfield’s Keep Britain Working Review could not have been clearer and it is a call that has not fallen on deaf ears. The former John Lewis chairman called on UK...