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Stakeholder depends on compulsion.
The government's stakeholder pensions scheme was discussed at length at last week's Life Insurance Association's Industry Leaders' Meeting in London. Francis Higney was there to hear both sides of this controversial story.
Davies predicts boom in means testing.
A massive increase in means testing will result from the government's stakeholder pension scheme, ac...
Virtually challenging.
Post Magazine and Winchester White surveyed UK insurers' attitudes to outsourcing and the move towar...
IFAs should adapt to shake-up.
Independent financial advisers will have to adapt and change in response to the pensions shake-up, c...
System hailed as 'the future of claims handling'.
Insurers have been urged to adopt new practices or continue to suffer fraudulent personal injury cla...
Very hard luck of Viagra's 12 angry men.
I write regarding your What the papers say story about 12 men who overdosed on Viagra. Given that...
PYV opts for St Paul.
Professional indemnity cover specialists PYV has appointed St Paul International as its preferred ch...
Building better contracts for everyone.
I was delighted to see that Berrymans Lace Mawer dealt with the Scottish case of British Telecom v J...
Not so grim up north.
We think of London being paved with gold as far as salaries are concerned, but a Post Magazine survey has found wages booming in the north. Anthony Gould reports.
The word from Speke.
The government is stepping up its campaign to extend the reach of financial services to less well-of...
Insurers get in a lather over soap.
Insurance representatives have criticised Coronation Street scriptwriters for "scaremongering" over ...
Darling has Field-day.
The government has declined an invitation from former welfare reform minister Frank Field to publish...
Long-running fraud case ends in victory for CU.
Commercial Union won a £1.6m fraudulent insurance claim trial on Monday after almost six years of in...
Soap storyline is beyond belief.
I have followed the unfolding saga of the Coronation Street life assurance crisis with utter disbeli...
Hiccups of car databases.
The letter from Steve Kilmister of Experian (Car fraud check - databases are a valuable weapon, PM 1...
Law lords rule against 'double recovery'.
The insurance industry has welcomed the law lords decision to rule against 'double recovery' for dam...
Policy exclusion was not effective until man's illness was diagnosed.
On 15 October 1992, a builder, Mr Cook, took out a business development loan of £4000, repayable by ...
Wait and see over euro: Cap Gemini.
CAP GEMINI has warned insurers to wait until March before celebrating the euro conversion process. ...
Stakeholder software peril.
Companies planning to offer the government's stockholder pension must check now that they have the c...
When festive over-indulgence was wishful thinking.
Come the new year, gyms up and down the land will be full of people trying to burn off the festive f...
Industry rallies against newspaper article.
Insurers and loss adjusters have reacted angrily to a newspaper report that the brief of claims mana...
Salvage's annus horribilis goes from bad to worse.
A terrible year for the salvage industry has ended with even more bad news as self-styled market lea...
"Radical" pension reforms revealed.
The government's "radical" new pension proposals, announced in the House of Commons on Tuesday, cont...
Appointment at Berrymans Lace Mawer.
David Maples has joined the commercial division of Berrymans Lace Mawer. Mr Maples specialises in...