Scottish Life

Personal pension providers are failing to properly run existing business, according to research company Defaqto.

Insurer Scottish Life is sending cheques worth an average £350 to more than 17,000 former with-profits investors after discovering it underpaid them when their policies matured.

Scottish Life has launched a fantasy rugby game for advisers as the 2011 Rugby World Cup begins.

Scottish Life is to switch the underlying investment within its UK Mid Cap Specialist Pension fund from Schroder UK Mid 250 to the Franklin UK Mid Cap fund.

Scottish Life's Jamie Clarke lets off steam about misconceptions of auto-enrolment

Scottish Life has been ordered by the Pensions Ombudsman (PO) to pay out £2,700 in compensation plus an adviser's fees after it badly administered a pension transfer.

A study assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a range of financial planning tools available to advisers has been published.

Following its review into ­allowing early access to pensions savings, the government decided there is insufficient evidence that such a move would encourage saving.

A strong performance from pensions arm Scottish Life helped Royal London's operating profits rise 42% to £243m in 2010 compared to the previous year.

Providers have welcomed the FSA's Consultancy Charging Working Group's review, but emphasise the need for the resulting guidance to be non-prescriptive.