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Government actuary Chris Daykin is suggesting raising the retirement age to reduce the financial pressure on strained social security budgets in OECD countries.Daykin and his colleague David Lewis put forward the idea in a paper entitled &#39A crisis of longer life – reforming pensions systems&#39 presented to a joint meeting of the British and Irish […]

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A Lloyds of London insurance syndicate has launched a new income protection product which does not discriminate against smokers.The product called Incomesafe has been launched by Goodfellow Rebecca Ingrams Pearson (GRIP).It is fully compliant with ABI guidelines and will provide up to 75 per cent of earnings to people unable to work due to accident […]