INSIGHT Investment has added a trio of multi-asset absolute return funds to Friends Provident's FRIENDS Wealth Solutions Bond.
In the eighties and early nineties, with-profits investments were the investment of choice for many. Sadly, this optimism was not borne out in the returns of many funds. Nick Bladen takes a look at the market
Aegon Scottish Equitable has unveiled a new online with-profits analyser for intermediaries.
The Association of International Life Offices (AILO) have issued new business figures for the offshore market recently. They make impressive reading.
MANY major with-profits life and pension funds will generate sub-cash returns over the next five years, according to new forecasts that deliver a fresh hammer blow to the multi-billion pound sector.
RETIREMENT savers are losing thousands of pounds every year by failing to select the best annuity option, according to Just Retirement.
PRUDENTIAL is to introduce ‘factory gate pricing' on its Onshore Bond product in the summer.
PRUDENTIAL has reached an agreement with Equitable Life to take on its £1.8bn with-profits annuity business.
PRUDENTIAL has utilised protected rights funds enabling them to be used to buy the company's with-profits annuity.
As falling bond and gilt yields cause conventional annuity rates to continue to decrease, with-profit annuities are becoming more popular with both advisers and consumers, claims Prudential.