Standard Life

The BBC's Panorama programme recently featured the alleged payment of bungs (more politely referred to as ‘irregular payments' by the Premier League) to football managers.

The minister for pensions reform has hit back at critics of the proposed personal accounts by suggesting claims of mis-selling are "scaremongering".

Another set of statistics about sales of pension term assurance was published yesterday, this time from HSBC which claims 84% of its life-only policies sold are PTA products.

Leading insurers say government proposals for a national pension saving scheme are "flawed" and could lead to widespread mis-selling of retirement plans to low-income workers, says the Guardian.

Pension providers could end up being responsible for informing people about the dangers of personal accounts.

Standard Life has approached the Pensions Policy Institute to see if they will review and endorse the research it submitted as a response to the pensions white paper consultation.

A-Day and demutualisation Standard Life to lose £100m from its life and pensions pre-tax operating profit, according to its half-year figures.

UK financial services may need to review its business model as the savings sector is regarded as a "middle-classed market", suggest panellists attending a Labour Party Conference fringe meeting.

Hundreds of staff at Scottish Widows faced an uncertain future last night after the company announced it was to consolidate back office jobs in Chatham, Kent, reports the Scotsman .

A quarter of advisers will only use pension term assurance for higher rate taxpayers, according to research from Standard Life.