Norwich Union

Aviva has launched a new online planning service to help individuals engage in financial planning for the future, as research by the firm reveals 60% of the world's pre-retired adults worry they haven't saved enough for retirement.

Norwich Union has introduced a teleinterviewing service staffed by nurses to remove the necessity of acquiring GP reports for protection applications.

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.

Norwich Union has adopted the Association of British Insurers' best practice definitions for critical illness (CI) cover and increased the maximum term on protection policies with reviewable CI.

Norwich Union has added a protection zone to its 'Make sense of it' consumer website, which provides information about life and pension products for consumers.

Alan Steel Asset Management, a leading Scottish independent financial adviser, has been targeted by fraudsters, reports the Scotsman.

Norwich Union has extended the deadline for its closure to new pension and annuity business in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man until June.

A service designed to provide advisers with a universal quotation request form for six enhanced annuities providers may not be as simple as intended.

Norwich Union has warned there is a "high risk" 90% of its mortgage endowment policies will not pay off people's home loans, despite its main investment fund notching up a return of almost 12% before tax last year, says the Guardian .

The Treasury and HMRC have confirmed customers who applied for pension term assurance policies on or before 6 December will be treated in the same way as those whose policies have already been issued.