Aegon

Aegon has teamed up with UBS Global Asset Management to offer a joint proposition which will extend its presence in the bulk annuity market.

Aegon has increased the value of new business by 77% in the first quarter of 2007, with life and pensions new business growing 37% to £297m API.

Aegon has announced a new distribution deal with Dunfermline Building Society for its life assurance and protection products.

IFA firm Positive Solutions has published its annual financial figures and accounts to reveal pre-tax operating profit in 2006 passed the £10m mark.

Only one in ten companies over the next three years are expected to remove their pension scheme liabilities, suggesting an increase in providers has not boosted business within the bulk annuity market.

Enhancements to pension transfer values is a practice which has been warned against by the industry for a while, but have recent decisions by government bodies and departments to crack down on the practice actually killed it off?

A national system of generic advice could cost just £50m, less than half the estimated figure published in a Select Committee report, claims the Resolution Foundation.

The European Council is today expected to give the green light to Europe's first serious attempt to reduce bureaucracy, according to the Daily Telegraph .

IFAs are focusing on too broad a sector of the market and as a result there is too much reliance on commission from continually selling products rather than on a holistic long term planning service, argues Abbey.

Aegon Asset Management is building on its experience of investing in stocks with an ethical stance with the launch of the first retail ethical cautious managed fund.