Skandia

Providers looking to enhance CI products must consider the effect on systems and pricing, and whether further underwriting is required. Julie Hopkins explores how cover can be retrospectively amended.

Skandia Investment Group (SIG) has launched a new multi-manager global equity fund, a diversified portfolio consisting of 12 managers.

Skandia is looking to add a further ten passive funds to its Selestaia Investment Solutions platform and its Life and Pensions fund range in response to adviser demand.

Skandia's sales of unit trusts and mutual funds in the UK and offshore fell by a quarter over the year to £1.715bn from £2.275bn.

One in four advisers will drop clients and focus on fewer, more profitable customers in an attempt to build their business, research suggests.

Skandia has unveiled a range of ISA support services to help advisers in the run-up to the end of the tax year.

Protection policyholders with Skandia are being given free access to health website roadtohealth.

The number of advisers writing over half their business on platforms is set to rise by 17% this year, according to new research from Skandia.

A chart tracking which sectors advisers are recommending to clients has shown that international fixed interest funds were amongst the big winners during 2008, moving up 8 places to 5th place.

Fund houses with substantial offshore offerings are building up the profile of the portfolios in the UK retail market ahead of the IMA's introduction of offshore listings.