healthcare

Standard Life is to combine its life and pensions, healthcare and banking businesses into a new UK Retail Division to be headed up by Trevor Matthews, currently the chief executive of UK life and pensions.

Less than 40% of companies see employee health as a priority for human resources, despite figures suggesting absenteeism costs businesses £13bn a year.

Norwich Union (NU) Healthcare has today launched a new private medical insurance (PMI) product for the individual market.

The US economy is expected to remain relatively strong now the election is over, but consumer spending and pressure on the oil price are likely to determine how stock markets fare over the coming year, suggests Gil Knight, senior US fund manager of the...

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Sales of products defined as biotechnology are reality in the US healthcare market, but it will be some years before similar UK efforts pay off investors to the same degree suggests Evan McCulloch, manager of Franklin Templeton Investments' Franklin Biotechnology...

Six out of ten high earners now hold private health insurance, suggests research by Lloyds TSB Premier Banking.