Legal & General

Legal & General International Ireland (LGII), the group's recently created offshore arm, has launched a series of offshore products.

AXA is considering scrapping the ongoing duty of disclosure across its protection range.

Legal & General will use customer postcodes as an additional risk factor when quoting for a conventional non-profit annuity.

Legal & General has added to its capital protected investment product series with the launch of the Growth Investment Plan Plus 11.

Legal & General (L&G) has recorded a 9% drop in UK new business in 2007, but life and pensions continued to perform well, up 11%.

Legal & General Wealth Management has recruited Mark Green, Rick Warner and Stacey Love to its tax and estate planning division offering adviser technical support.

Legal & General has abolished the requirement for customers to notify it of any change to their health or circumstances before their policy starts.

Legal & General has extended its terms of 1.5% extra allocation for Portfolio Bond investments on Cofunds to run until January 11 2008.

Punter Southall welcomes the move by Legal & General and Hargreaves Lansdown to use postcodes to determine annuity payouts.

Legal & General Wealth Management's pension sales have increased 38% in the first half of 2007 compared to the same period last year, according to an interim report.