Aviva

Barclays is considering enhancing its pension fund following a furious reaction from staff about the decision to close the final-salary scheme to plug a £3.5bn gap.

The FTSE 100 has pared gains mid-morning after its strong start, which saw it set a new year high.

Aviva has made a profit of over £700m in the first half of the year but has slashed its dividend to just 9p.

One in four Aviva with-profits policyholders are unhappy with its proposed reattribution offer, a survey had revealed.

It was difficult to know what to expect when I started the Future Adviser Programme with Aviva. The programme is designed to promote the financial advice profession to university graduates, in anticipation of the current Retail Distribution Review.

A large proportion of the protections sales force is under qualified to sell protection in a market offering huge opportunities, says Richard Verdin.

The government's Green Paper on reform of the care and support system may result in widespread sales of long term care insurance

Well we are deep in the heart of the summer months and, while the insurance industry is rather quiet in terms of providers and intermediaries, many official bodies have seen fit, perhaps cynically, to use the last month to release research results and...

A large proportion of the protections sales force is underqualified to sell protection in a market offering huge opportunities, says Richard Verdin

Aviva and Prudential are the most likely to gain from consolidation in the UK life assurance industry, according to Deutsche Bank.