Standard Life

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.

Middle to lower-income earners - C1C2DEs - will become even less attractive than they perhaps already are as potential leads for adviser businesses, according to research published by Key Note.

Standard Life is launching a new set of income protection products next week which it hopes will put it on a level playing field with the front-runners in the market.

Radio adverts claiming people with money problems can escape up to 80% of their debts are misleading and unethical, debt management company Debt Free Direct said today, reports the Guardian .

The Department for Work and Pensions has rejected calls for a "compliance window" for age discrimination regulations for pension schemes.

Mortgages rarely make it onto the front pages of national newspapers except when the rate of borrowing goes up. However, a recent revelation by one lender was so startling that it made it as the lead item not only in the newspapers but on TV news programmes...

The majority of the population is ill-prepared for the event of a severe illness or serious accident, according to research from Standard Life.