Scottish Widows

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 .

Scottish Widows is helping advisers meet the minimum qualifications proposed in the RDR by rolling out its learning programme.

Scottish Widows' life insurance business could be shipped off to Allianz under a plan by Lloyds TSB to snap up German bank Dresdner.

Scottish Widows could be hit with a compensation claim which could cost it up to £1bn, following accusations it gave negligent advice to around a hundred final salary pension schemes.

Scottish Widows reduced the number of critical illness (CI) claims declined due to non-disclosure by 41% between 2006 and 2007, the firm reveals today.

The outcome of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) should not matter as advisers must change their business models to succeed anyway, according to transition planner FP Advance.

Scottish Widows has decided to remove a number of funds from its life and pensions fund range after a review of its external fund links.

Invesco Perpetual and Scottish Widows have denied rumours their business relationship may be in jeopardy.