Zurich
Regulation
George Osborne's call for radical thinking on pensions tax relief could solve the problem "once and for all" but there are huge policy issues to overcome, industry experts have said.
09 July 2015
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Your profession
Provider Zurich is reviewing whether to allow legacy retail clients access to its flexible drawdown product on a non-advised basis, in an effort to streamline pension freedom.
02 July 2015
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Income
Auto-enrolment savers are underfunding their pension pots due to a "false sense of security" that minimum contributions are good enough, Zurich's Alistair Wilson has warned.
26 June 2015
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Your profession
Zurich UK Life has poached Cofunds key account manager Rose St Louis to head its new retail distribution team.
12 June 2015
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Wrap/platforms
A "combination of politics and pensions" contributed to slower sales across platforms in the first three months of the year, with the year-on-year (YOY) asset growth rate also receding, according to research.
15 May 2015
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Regulation
Advisers could be forced to collect and share client information on non-advised business with providers under new rules mooted by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
13 May 2015
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Income
Insurer Zurich is to pass its £1.2bn legacy annuities business covering 28,000 clients to specialist Rothesay Life.
12 May 2015
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Regulation
Most people are unlikely to spend less of - or save more into - their pension as a direct result of the removal of the "punitive" 55% ‘death tax' earlier this month, according to research.
30 April 2015
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