Aegon

Aegon is launching its first proposition into the pension buyout market with a wind-up funding solution aimed at the smaller end of the market.

Advisers have a great part to play in ensuring consumers answer underwriting questions truthfully, according to Matt Rann, group underwriting and claims manager at Aegon UK.

Ed Balls MP is calling for a more "comprehensive and preventative" approach to advice through wider access to unregulated or 'generic' financial advice.

Scottish Widows has announced the appointment of Alasdair Fraser in a newly created role as head of investment services.

Ian Frost is moving from BlackRock to Investec Asset Management to become a global fixed income portfolio manager while Aegon Asset Management has also announced a series of new arrivals to its fixed income team.

Action to settle whether scheme pension payments are subject to inheritance tax could be included in the pre-Budget Report.

Draft amendments to how the age discrimination regulations affect pensions are being released this week for further informal consultation.

Personal accounts will just be "another complicated tier of pensions provision", says Labour MP Frank Field.

Aegon is the first UK insurer to try and transfer the success of guaranteed living benefit products from the US to the UK, with the launch of ‘5 for Life'.

The government should provide modest subsidies for generic advice about personal accounts, says Aegon.