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Aviva is making the employee assistance programme (EAP) freely available on all its group income protection (GIP) schemes.

LV= has revealed it completed almost two thirds (61%) of all protection applications from IFAs in five days or less last year.

SIPP provider Curtis Banks has published a list of the investments it is least likely to accept into its pensions.

Investment bank Goldman Sachs is expected to report only its second ever quarterly loss when it unveils its numbers next week, Credit Suisse analysts have warned.

Advisers believe proposals to re-label the Investment Management Association's fund sectors will not help consumers better understand the levels of risk the funds carry, research suggests.

Close Asset Management has renamed four of its discretionary portfolios and has moved two of the range to different IMA sectors to better reflect their investment objectives.

Gregg McClymont, MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East, is the new shadow pensions minister.

The insurance sector has been chastised for not engaging well enough with politicians and advisers have been urged to lobby their MPs.

Skandia Investment Group (SIG)is calling on the IMA to introduce a new sector for 'risk-targeted funds', with legacy 'managed' portfolios shifted to an alternative category where returns are the driver.

Chartered financial planner Pete Matthew has marked the occasion of recording his 150th educational video for consumers by re-designing his website, Meaningful Money.