Bluefin

More than a decade ago, Bluefin Wealth Management led the way in doing business by using platforms. With technology developing at breakneck speed today, Julie Lord tells Helen Morrissey there is no better time to put them to use in everyday business practice...

Bluefin Corporate Consulting, part of AXA-owned Bluefin Advisory Services, is programming the company's 1,000 computers to play Stevie Wonder's 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours' every time the firm wins a new client.

Adviser Bluefin Insurance Services has appointed Mike Crisp to the newly created role of business development director in its corporate risks division.

Axa today declared itself happy with its investment in Bluefin Advisory Services after the intermediary revealed it made a £62m write-down last year following a restructure of its private client division.

Axa has insisted that it has no intention of selling its Bluefin Insurance Group and remains fully committed to the distribution market.

Reform of the Open Market Option would boost government coffers by £1.7bn over 20 years and should form part of all political manifestos, a lobby group says.

Tax efficient arrangements such as employer funded retirement benefit schemes could come under heavy government scrutiny following yesterday's Budget, a consultant warns.