Aegon creates head of D2C role in reshuffle

Laura Miller
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Aegon UK has given the role of managing director of its direct to consumer service Retiready to David Beattie, as part of a management reshuffle.

Beattie was previously customer service director at the firm, a post he had held since October 2011. That role has now been split in two, with Richard Denning taking up one of the resulting positions as platform service and development manager in order to oversee Aegon's main platform business, Aegon Retirement Choices (ARC). Denning joined Aegon in April from wrap Novia, after Aegon bought the firm's Novia Investment Services Limited (NISL) business - created to design and build ARC - in a deal which brought the life company's platform development business in-house. The promotion ...

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