Scottish Widows

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.

Lloyds TSB plans to extend its wealth management products and services by leveraging off its own and HBOS's long term savings product suites.

Discrimination is good. A dictionary definition is "the power of making fine distinctions", so it's a synonym for good judgement. Most insurance is based on discrimination.

Scottish Widows says advisers using its PASS exam preparation system fared better in the April Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) examinations than those who did not.

Scottish Widows is writing to 6,000 policyholders notifying them that restrictions imposed on certain transactions out of its property funds are being lifted.

This year I am pleased to have been chosen as one of four judges who will be deciding who wins Scottish Widows' third IFA Awards.

Consensus on its pension reforms has been very important to the Government. It's worked hard to maintain the support of other political parties, the pensions industry and consumers.

Fear is one of the main factors prompting people to increase their pension savings, according to the Scottish Widows Pensions Report 2008 .