Scottish Widows

Scottish Widows has announced the development of a range of online tools to help IFAs exploit the post A-Day opportunities available to their clients.

Women are still likely to be at a financial disadvantage to men at retirement despite the government's proposed reforms to the State pension and personal accounts, suggests research produced for Scottish Widows.

The majority of protection providers are waiting until the April 2007 deadline before they adopt the Association of British Insurers' new critical illness definitions.

Insurers' own claims data, which they use to calculate different premiums for men and women, is likely to remain confidential when the Equal Treatment Directive is transposed into UK law.

Only one in four people believe they are adequately protected if they lose the main income from their household, according to a report by Scottish Widows.

Advisers have a great part to play in ensuring consumers answer underwriting questions truthfully, according to Matt Rann, group underwriting and claims manager at Aegon UK.

This week I attended a course on the ‘tone of voice' we should use when communicating with customers. The grumpy old man in me tends to feel that today's younger generation would benefit more from learning grammar and punctuation, but tone of voice refreshers...

Supermarkets are a useful distribution channel in the protection industry because people trust the brands and are encouraged to buy products, according to speakers on IFAonline.tv's Great Protection Debate .

Axa last month confirmed it was in exclusive talks to buy financial adviser group Thinc Destini, and given the time scales usually involved in a merger or takeover, it wouldn't be unreasonable to think the deal could be completed at any time.

Scottish Widows has announced the appointment of Alasdair Fraser in a newly created role as head of investment services.