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End is nigh for firm.
The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has presented a petition in the High Court of Justice ...
November: when the sun had got his rain hat on.
November was uncharacteristically sunny according to Cunningham Ellis & Buckle's monthly Wethernet r...
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...
IFA's swot up on Phase 2.
Independent financial advisers rushed to discover how to prepare themselves to cope with the fallout...
AMP beats off opposition to snap up NPI.
Australian insurance group AMP has strengthened its position in the UK life market by acquiring NPI ...
Dawn of a new era.
Everyone's talking about EMU, but how many are preparing for it? Cyril Lewis explores the reasons why so many UK insurers are reluctant to prepare for the euro.
The euro, Y2K, mergers - 1999 will be quite a year.
Will 1998 go down as the seminal year in the radical re-structuring of the UK insurance industry, or...
Ex-ITT L&E employees to staff new Axa property centre.
Axa has opened a dedicated property insurance centre which will be staffed by former ITT London & Ed...
Industry rallies against newspaper article.
Insurers and loss adjusters have reacted angrily to a newspaper report that the brief of claims mana...
What the papers say.
EVENING STANDARD Motorists duly got an early Christmas present after vital repair work on the Rot...
Clever packaging can't hide a poor pensions present.
The proposals for overhauling pensions provisions have received a rather mixed press, and rightly so...
Scoop on the National Lottery.
Lucky Royal & SunAlliance staff got an unexpected Christmas bonus after scooping £77,425 on the Nati...
Scottish Widows embarks on customer fact-finding mission.
Scottish Widows is to utilise the latest technology to learn more about its two million customers an...
Midlands shopping centre gutted.
Loss adjusters and fire investigators were still trying to discover the cause of a blaze this week w...
Annual match against Guardian Insurance.
Some things never change. Post Magazine played its annual match against Guardian Insurance recently ...
Guardian puts wheels on Kwik Fit household deal.
Guardian Insurance and Kwik Fit have strengthened their ties with the signing of a new deal which wi...
Farrant to quit FSA.
Richard Farrant is to leave his post as operating officer of the Financial Services Authority in Jan...
Money pours into IBRC.
Cash is flooding into the offices of the Insurance Brokers Registration Council, with the chairman p...
Multi-car and lorry pile up in thick fog.
A multi-car and lorry pile up on Tuesday involving 18 vehicles left two people dead and resulted in ...
Registration extended.
The Institute of Financial Services has joined in the festive spirit and extended the registration d...
Party funsters or poopers?
Christmas is a time for lost inhibitions, excess alcohol, mistletoe, carols and work parties. Post Magazine decided to find out which insurance companies entered the festivities in the intended manner and which acted the scrooge.
Ex-RSA HQ up for sale.
Royal & SunAlliance has instructed a City estate agency to put its former headquarters at number One...
Toplis director dies.
Mick McTernan, an associate director of McLarens Toplis, Birmingham, died suddenly on Wednesday 16 D...
ACA's pensions brief.
The Association of Consulting Actuaries, which provides technical and secretariat support to the 50-...