L&G

Legal & General (L&G) has promoted one of its senior staff to finance director after the insurer's external candidate was disapproved of by the regulator.

Cofunds chairman Charlie Eppinger is to step down as the acqusition of the platform by Legal and General completed.

FundsNetwork has accelerated its take on of clean share classes to achieve its target of having 95% of current platform assets covered by clean share classes by the end of June.

Legal and General (L&G) is to introduce a "trustee-style" governance committee for its contract-based pension schemes.

Verona Smith, marketing director at Cofunds, is to exit the platform in the wake of the takeover by Legal & General.

Advisers operating post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) must create enduring relationships regardless of whether they make a sale, a Legal & General (L&G) director has argued.

Darwin Investment Managers has launched a model portfolio service comprising three funds managed by multi-asset veteran David Jane.

Legal & General (L&G) has seen a marked decline in lapsed policies across its protection product channels, which it partly put down to an ‘early warning system' it rolled out to advisers in 2006.

Legal & General (L&G) has exited the with-profits annuity market.

Legal & General Investments (L&G I) has cut the annual management charges across its index fund range by five basis points, in a move to bolster the appeal of its passive proposition.