Legal & General

We asked you to vote on as your favourite Valentine's ‘finance' story, on the back of a story we ran highlighting the gems of press releases which wouldn't usually make it into our pages but found very highly amusing.

It's the time of year again when press teams at some of the major financial services companies have a secret competition to see who can come up with the most ingenious link to Valentine's Day.

The asset allocation of with-profits funds should be the focus of reviews by advisers as changes may mean the current mix is not what either they or the client may anticipate.

Less than a quarter of adults are in the mood to spend after an increase in interest rates and the continuation of ISAs seem to have boosted the appeal of saving.

Nationwide Building Society and Legal & General have entered a joint distribution agreement for the supply of life insurance, investment and pension products.

Prudential has launched the first with-profits annuity which can be purchased with protected rights funds, following negotiations with the Department for Work and Pensions.

Northern Rock is poised to leapfrog Abbey and Lloyds TSB to become Britain's third-biggest mortgage lender, according to the Times .

Legal & General has produced a second update on the implications for group risk benefits following the introduction of the Age Discrimination Regulations on 1 October 2006.

Legal & General has completed the rollout of its ‘new early warning system', which alerts advisers when premiums have not been paid on their clients' policies.

Legal & General (L&G) has launched a new portfolio of financial promotions tools - including a movie - to help employers inform their staff about their group pension schemes.