Aegon

The National Employment Savings Trust and Aegon have signed a formal agreement to offer an integrated auto-enrolment proposition.

Platform unbundling will no doubt make investment trusts more accessible - but the jury is still out on whether it will make them more popular.

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Scottish Widows will provide employers with access to B&CE's People's Pension via its auto-enrolment online hub.

Aegon has published a guide to State bereavement payments that will be issued with all death claim packs.

Jim Reeve, chief executive of Aegon-owned national IFA Positive Solutions, has left the business to pursue alternative opportunities in financial services.

Aegon UK made a loss before tax of £22m in the fourth quarter of 2011, dragged down by further redress payments following administrative problems at Scottish Equitable and a slump in life and pensions sales.

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My 45-year-old client was made redundant due to the recession, but has recently started a new yet much lower-paid job. With his income protection (IP) policy covering his last wage level, he is now over-insured and would not be able to claim his full...

Aegon has been ordered to pay a customer £10,500 in compensation after it told him he would receive double the pension income he was actually due.