Aviva's Harvey to take the chair at ABI

Richard Harvey, a man who is already under the media spotlight today because he is staying on for a while longer as group chief executive of Aviva, has also been appointed as chairman of the ABI. Mike Ross will step down as chairman after completing his two-year term, says a statement from the ABI, and become chairman of the newly-created European Constitutional Affairs at the ABI. Harvey, who became group chief executive of Aviva in April 2001, says the focus of the ABI's lobbying will be "to argue the case for Government action to close the savings gap, for pension reform, and f...