Friends Life

Aviva Investors has hired Mark Versey, chief investment officer at Friends Life, as its new director of client solutions.

Friends Life has reported a 41% increase in the value of new business for the first nine months of 2013, rising from £94m during the same period last year to reach £133m.

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CRITICAL ILLNESS

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has added several group protection products to its restricted advice proposition.

Financial services group Resolution helped push the FTSE 100 index higher this morning after better-than-expected half-yearly results.

Friends Life's UK business took a dip in the first half of the year as the company paid off a further £5m of a £6m fine levied against Sesame.

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