Unit linked guarantees roundtable

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Unit linked guarantees have been part of the UK's retirement landscape for the past five years. In this roundtable industry experts assess the growth prospects for this market as well as discussing what more providers can do to ensure advisers fully understand how these products can benefit their clients.

    The panel: Colin Bell is an actuary with 25 years' experience in the UK life insurance industry in senior product development and marketing roles. He specified AEGON's first unit-linked guarantee product in the UK in 2006. After a brief spell with Genworth Financial as VP Product Development, Colin returned to AEGON in 2009 as its Product Director for its European unit-linked guarantees business. Billy Burrows is director of The Better Retirement Group. Billy first became involved with pensions when he helped to establish Annuity Direct. William Burrows Annuities was cre...

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