Scottish Widows

Sainsbury Bank's head of marketing communications Richard Clark is taking up the mortgage product development role at Scottish Widows left by the departure of Murdo McHardy.

A relative of mine recently recarpeted her hallway. She's a single mum so funds are tight, and she asked a friend in the trade how much it might cost. He looked at the hallway and suggested it should be no more than £500.

Britons are planning to give away a total of £103bn to friends and family to avoid a tax bill on their death, according to research from Scottish Widows.

I was one of the lucky ones. I quite liked PE and sport at school but there were loads of kids who hated it - the mean spirited teachers, being the last one picked for the team, the cold showers, the list goes on. A lot of these kids left the running...

Despite broad support for the pension reforms published in today's Bill, some parts of the industry are concerned more could still be done.

Over five million households in Great Britain are now valued at more than the current inheritance tax (IHT) threshold of £285,000, research from Scottish Widows reveals.

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.