Scottish Widows

Scottish Widows has launched a six year capital protected fund aimed at cautious investors looking to protect their investment in the current economic crisis.

After much talk of a generic industry-wide protection campaign it seems the ball has started rolling. Paul Robertson explains the what it hopes to achieve and how it may impact the industry.

Scottish Widows plans to reduce the administrative burden on advisers with clients making regular contributions into its Retirement Account, IFAonline has learnt.

An average male coming up to retirement who has invested in a Scottish Widows with-profits personal pension policy over 20 years will see £10,000 wiped off the value of his fund compared to the same time last year.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership is launching an online training resource for IFAs.

Scottish Widows has reintroduced a 180-day delay period for certain transactions involving the Scottish Widows Life Property Fund.

The Pension Policy Institute's (PPI) calls for early access to pension funds has been backed by Scottish Widows, which says the proposal could help reduce the gender gap in private pensions.

Scottish Widows has urged the Government to introduce better pensions incentives for women, despite a slight narrowing of the pensions gender gap.

Robert Reid, Buckles IFA, Billy Burrows and Becky Taylor are this year's winners of Scottish Widows IFA Awards-The Widows.

A potential Scottish Widows and Clerical Medical merged entity could create industry-wide nervousness among its major insurance rivals, Rathbones' CIO Julian Chillingworth believes.