Prudential

Prudential has today announced it plans to delist Egg, its online bank, from the London Stock Exchange next month once it has bought back the remaining minority shareholdings.

Prudential has launched a new business consultancy service designed to help intermediaries develop more efficient businesses.

Prudential International has introduced a range of enhancements to its flagship investment bond with the aim of attaining a 'top three' market position.

Financial advisers and product providers have accused consumer watchdog Which? of scaremongering and presenting research on the equity release market which is "misleading and misplaced".

Prudential will be writing to almost half a million customers who are contracted out of the State second pension (S2P) to say they strongly believe they should contract back in for the 2005/2006 tax year onwards.

The latest Retirement Index from Prudential reveals that a third of pensioners live on less than £7,500 a year forcing over 60% to curb their spending with many cutting back on necessities, not just luxuries.

State benefits will no longer provide the majority of our retirement income within a few years, claims a new report from Prudential.

PRUDENTIAL IS in talks with troubled mutual insurer Equitable Life and at least two other insurers about buying up books of annuities, according to this morning's papers.

TONY BLAIR on Wednesday vowed to do his "level best" to secure a European Union budget deal before the end of his presidency of the EU, if fellow leaders back a new European Commission plan to tackle globalisation, says the Financial Times .

New research conducted on behalf of Prudential has revealed customer confidence in lifetime mortgages has increased over the past two years.