Better regulation. Our own government has adopted this grand European idea to regulate smarter rather than harder.
Financial services providers like Standard Life have invested millions of pounds into e-commerce services during the last few years. Some of these services you will be using on a regular basis and will simply take for granted. Others you will have heard...
Clients must be on risk before midnight on 5th December to benefit from tax relief on pension term assurance policies, according to HMRC.
Several protection providers have already pulled out of the pension term assurance market this morning and more are expected to do so later today, following comments in the Pre-Budget Report suggesting the product was being misused.
Standard Life has announced it is withdrawing its pension term assurance policy as of today, following strong hints by the Treasury it will withdraw the right to use the product.
Despite broad support for the pension reforms published in today's Bill, some parts of the industry are concerned more could still be done.
Standard Life Assurance has appointed Robert Watters as protection marketing director.
Suffolk Life is warning the pensions industry not to underestimate the impact of regulation for Self Invested Personal Pensions.
Only 17% of individuals have taken advantage of the estate planning benefits of trusts, according to research from Standard Life.
The number of people saving on a regular basis has increased by 5.5% since July 2006, according to the Standard Life Savings & Investment Index.