Retirement

SG Hambros Bank, part of SG Private Banking, has launched a SIPP with private equity investment opportunities.

Defined benefit (DB) pension scheme trustees will face increased scrutiny if their mortality assumptions appear weaker than the long cohort assumption under a consultation published by the Pensions Regulator today.

Scottish Widows has welcomed the launch of the The Pension Advisory Service's (TPAS) pension help line for women.

Almost 95% of IFAs want to increase their pensions and divorce business, according to research from Winterthur.

STEVE Bee, head of pensions strategy at Scottish Life, has suggested the Pensions Bill should be frozen while the Government researches people's saving habits and how auto-enrolment into the proposed personal account scheme may effect them.

LV= will pay customers four times the compensation they would have received from recently acquired Tomorrow for not receiving their pension commencement lump sum within seven working days.

Standard Life has reinsured £6.7bn of UK immediate annuity liabilities, more than half of its £12bn, to Canada Life International Re.

STRONG growth is predicted in the equity release market, according to leading figures in the sector.

LV= has appointed a new life and pensions management team following its January acquisition of Swiss Re's retirement business, Tomorrow.

The Scottish Widows £17bn With-Profits fund returned 5% to customers last year, half its 2006 return.