Skandia/Selestia merge commercial operations

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Skandia Life and Selestia have merged their commercial operations in a bid to deliver a clear and integrated product proposition to financial advisers.

Skandia UK’s former strategy director Nick Dixon has been appointed commercial director, managing a new senior management team, which includes Billy Mackay, Peter Jordan, Nick Bladen, Graham Bentley, and Colin Jelley. Mackay, Skandia’s marketing head, has taken on much of Selestia former marketing director Bill Vasilieff’s role; while Jordan is the new platform marketing head, responsible for Selestia Investment Solutions and Skandia wrap. Bladen takes on the new pension and bonds marketing head role, Bentley is the head of investment marketing and Jelley is the tax and financial planni...

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