Money Marketing
10 August 2005
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ScotLife boosts RoyLon business
11 Aug 2005
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12Bn knocked off pension deficits in July
11 Aug 2005
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19% Sales rise for Skandia
11 Aug 2005
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19% sales rise for Skandia
10 Aug 2005
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22,000 Open savings gateway
11 Aug 2005
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A competitive hedge in delivering returns
11 Aug 2005
The worldwide growth of hedge funds over the past 10 years has been amazing. There are now more than 8,000 hedge funds with over $1tn of assets under man- agement. Recent publicity about the earnings of some of the top managers in the field has raised the profile of this supposedly new phenomenon even further.
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A wealth of resources for Oceanic
16 Aug 2005
Oceanic Aset ManagementACDS Australian Natural Resources Fund
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Abbey - Stockmarket Linked Savings Bond
12 Aug 2005
AbbeyStockmarket Linked Savings Bond
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Aifa is the wrong body to represent multi-ties
11 Aug 2005
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Aifa seeks researcher to compile files in retrospection fight
11 Aug 2005
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Alan Dring set to leave Standard Life Bank
15 Aug 2005
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All Blacks magic
11 Aug 2005
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Aviva makes over 300 support jobs redundant
16 Aug 2005
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B&B turns away claim chasers
11 Aug 2005
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Bankhall chiefs quit
11 Aug 2005
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Bankhall will extend GI deal to IFA market
11 Aug 2005
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Bankruptcies at record high
10 Aug 2005
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Bankuptcies at record high
11 Aug 2005
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Barclays International - Guaranteed FTSE Tracker 1
10 Aug 2005
Barclays InternationalGuaranteed FTSE Tracker 1
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Bargaining power on takeover trail
11 Aug 2005
Whenever a fund management firm or an IFA business goes under the hammer, the first question on everybody's lips is: "What's it worth?"
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Baring backs hedge approach for Asia
11 Aug 2005
Baring Asset Management is recommending a hedge fund of funds' approach to combat volatility in the Asian markets.
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Boulger warns over non-Ship shunning
11 Aug 2005
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Bradford & Bingley profits up by 8%
10 Aug 2005
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Bradford & Bingley profits up by 8%
11 Aug 2005
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Break down and cry?
11 Aug 2005
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BTL landlords confident but there will be few new entrants says Mortgage Trust
10 Aug 2005
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BTL leaseback firm listing on Aim
10 Aug 2005
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BTL leaseback firm listing on Aim
11 Aug 2005
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Can't see the wood for the key facts
11 Aug 2005
Looking through the lat- est FSA consultation papers, my eyebrows raised at a line in CP05/12 which stated: "It has long been recognised that many consumers do not read the information (specifically the key features) that firms give them at the point of sale."
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Cheltenham & Gloucester - Two Year Premium Fixed Rate
11 Aug 2005
Cheltenham & GloucesterTwo Year Premium Fixed Rate
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Consumer View: Blown away without cover
11 Aug 2005
The news that more than half the 1,500 victims of the recent Birmingham tornado do not have household buildings and contents insurance illustrates all too graphically how the poor get poorer.
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Correspondent's Week
11 Aug 2005
This week Emma Lunn, freelance finance journalist
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Cullen buys MoneyPlan
11 Aug 2005
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Cullen buys MoneyPlan
10 Aug 2005
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'Dangers ahead for hybrids'
11 Aug 2005
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Don't put all your eggs in RPI basket
11 Aug 2005
I am in the process of buying an annuity with my pension fund and have been offered a contract which increases annually in line with the retail price index, subject to a maximum of 5 per cent a year. The initial annuity equates to my current annual spend. Am I right in assuming that if inflation is less than 5 per cent a year, I will be able to maintain my current standard of living?
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DTI puts cork in wine racket
11 Aug 2005
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Durlacher is censured by LSE
11 Aug 2005
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Ethical investment hits 10bn mark
11 Aug 2005
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Exclusion zones
11 Aug 2005
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Executive decisions
11 Aug 2005
The FSA's fourth life insurance newsletter issued last month warns insurers about the standard of advice given by their representatives.
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F&C Stewardship funds break through 2bn barrier
15 Aug 2005
The F&C Stewardship funds, the group's range of ethical portfolios, have passed through the 2bn mark.The funds, the first of which was launched 21 years ago by Friends Provident, are the UK's oldest and largest ethical investment suite of products.
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Feast of the assumptions
11 Aug 2005
This week, I will conclude my series of articles on recent and imminent developments in the pension world. In my last article, I looked at issues relating to the pro- jection of benefits from final-salary schemes and state pensions. Here, I will move on to the projection of money-purchase benefits, paying particular attention to the impact of statutory money-purchase illustrations.
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Fee circus as ifas chalk up menus
11 Aug 2005
James Salmon looks at payment options offered by advisers
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Focus appoints ex-Exchange manager
12 Aug 2005
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Foreicn Currency Direct seeks IFA partnerships
10 Aug 2005
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FSA hears no evil
11 Aug 2005
Many financial services companies record conversations in the office as a standard practice and our story was based on recordings which were made in an office where a prominent sign warns that meetings and telephone conversations on the premises may be recorded.
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FundsNetwork adds seven new funds
16 Aug 2005
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Getting things in proportion
11 Aug 2005
Last week, I looked at the 10-year anniversary charge on relevant property held in discretionary trusts and this week it is the turn of the proportionate or exit charge.
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Govt closing loophole to prevent 45% tax-free cash
11 Aug 2005
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House prices set to fall this year , says CML
11 Aug 2005
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Housing market confidence unmoved
15 Aug 2005
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Howard is new chairman of FSCP
16 Aug 2005
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IFA View: Joining the social club
11 Aug 2005
It is very easy to be cynical of socially responsible investments (SRI).
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Innovation in £5k challenge
11 Aug 2005
Structured product provider Product Innovation is challenging multi-managers to a £5,000 bet for charity that its new open-ended structured products will outperform their funds over the next 12 months.
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Innovation in moderation
15 Aug 2005
Product InnovationsOverture Multi Asset Platform Fund: Frontier Moderate
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Insurers still struggling on GI regulation
11 Aug 2005
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Interest in charges
11 Aug 2005
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Investment View: Smile on the FTSE face
11 Aug 2005
Not so very long ago, it looked as though the FTSE 100 index would struggle to stay at the 5,000 level.
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Investors abandon SVM flagship fund
11 Aug 2005
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Keydata to boost IFA trade tech
11 Aug 2005
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Land ahoy for Cordea Savills
11 Aug 2005
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Late boost for open annuities
11 Aug 2005
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Lawyers to lobby on principle regulation
11 Aug 2005
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Leeds & Holbeck - Fee Free 5 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage
10 Aug 2005
Leeds & HolbeckFee Free 5 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage
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Leeds & Holbeck - Five Year Fixed Rate
15 Aug 2005
Leeds & HolbeckFive Year Fixed Rate
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LiverpoolVic aims at IHT planning
11 Aug 2005
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Martin Currie set for big retail drive
11 Aug 2005
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McMillan and strife
11 Aug 2005
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Meera Patel
11 Aug 2005
Matt Davis discovers that Hargreaves Lansdown's senior investment analyst wants to make the Government an offer it can't refuse to help close the savings and pension gaps and start to educate consumers on the benefits of financial services
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Millfield sells its 25% stake in Lifetime to NU
11 Aug 2005
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Mortgage View: Near-prime movers
11 Aug 2005
My monthly rant is normally restricted to one topical subject so it is quite ironic that in a typically slow news month there is plenty to commentate on. In no particular order, here are some musings on four newsworthy items of late.
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Multi-manager View: Why Fofs are value for money
11 Aug 2005
Do funds of funds work? Yes (is the short answer).
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Nationwide - Guaranteed Equity Bond
15 Aug 2005
NationwideGuaranteed Equity Bond
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Nationwide increases its reservation fee payment options
15 Aug 2005
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Navigation system broke down in the New Forest
11 Aug 2005
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Neptune boutique to white-label for IFAs
11 Aug 2005
Neptune's new multi-mana- ger boutique is to be called North Investment Partners and will be available for IFAs to white-label.
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New civil partnership law confusing, says CAB
10 Aug 2005
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No penalty for Abbey
11 Aug 2005
AbbeyTwo Year Fixed Rate
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Non-confirming move by Beacon
10 Aug 2005
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Non-conforming business activity rises for mortgage brokers in July
15 Aug 2005
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Non-conforming move by Beacon
11 Aug 2005
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NU and Co-Operative Insurance sign distribution agreement
12 Aug 2005
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Nvesta - Accelerator Growth Plan 3
12 Aug 2005
NvestaAccelerator Growth Plan 3
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OFM Group joins Personal Touch Financial Services
16 Aug 2005
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Old Mutual seeks to prosper
12 Aug 2005
Old Mutual Prosper 80 from Old Mutual Asset Managers is a capital-protected product linked to the performance of a manager of managers hedge fund portfolio and cash using a form of constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI).
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Old Mutual sets target of 4% plus cash
11 Aug 2005
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Park Row picks L&G for panel
11 Aug 2005
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Park Row picks L&G for panel
10 Aug 2005
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Passive positivity from Product Innovations
15 Aug 2005
Structured product provider Product Innovations has established its two Oeic funds for high net worth clients that take a passive investment approach to eight asset classes.
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PIMS pair quit to set up a new firm
11 Aug 2005
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Pink Home Loans - BM Solutions Self Cert Two Year Fixed
11 Aug 2005
Pink Home LoansBM Solutions Self Cert Two Year Fixed
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Portman Building Society - Five Year Fixed
12 Aug 2005
Portman Building SocietyFive Year Fixed
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Prestbury in network talks
11 Aug 2005
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Prestbury in network talks
10 Aug 2005
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Product Innovations - Overture Multi Asset Platform Fund Frontier Conservative
16 Aug 2005
Product InnovationsOverture Multi Asset Platform Fund Frontier Conservative
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Product Innovations - Overture Multi Asset Platform Fund: Frontier Moderate
16 Aug 2005
Product InnovationsOverture Multi Asset Platform Fund: Frontier Moderate
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Pru is moving into equities for life fund
11 Aug 2005
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Rate of growth
11 Aug 2005
Nicola York assesses the mortgage industry's reaction to last week's 0.25 per cent rate reduction by the monetary policy committee
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Reliance Mutual seeking to white-label protection range
11 Aug 2005
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Rental arithmetic
11 Aug 2005
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Reynolds to head up BM Solutions sales team
16 Aug 2005
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Route 2 goes into administration
11 Aug 2005
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ScotLife boosts RoyLon business
10 Aug 2005
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Selection process
11 Aug 2005
We have recently announced Sesame Select, our multi-tie proposition, which incorporates products from five leading providers - Axa, Legal & General, Norwich Union, Prudential and Standard Life.
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Sourcers should carry KFI onus
10 Aug 2005
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'Sourcers should carry KFI onus'
11 Aug 2005
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Staff missing out on tax-free share schemes
11 Aug 2005
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Stake through the heart
11 Aug 2005
Are life offices, in some strange way, undermining the companies they invest in?
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Standard cuts endowment cash again
11 Aug 2005
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Stimulant dispensed at wrong time
11 Aug 2005
So, the Bank of England has cut interest rates, citing slower household spending and business investment. As something of a contrarian, I cannot help believe that a rate cut at this point in the economic cycle only intensifies the risk that rates will have to increase more aggressively in future.
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Stop taping our teams, says FSA
11 Aug 2005
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Structured Solutions Group puts together early bonus
10 Aug 2005
Structured Solutions Group has brought out the early bonus plan III a guaranteed equity bond linked to the performance of the FTSE 100 index for a term of six years.
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Supervising supervisors
11 Aug 2005
The role of supervisors is under the spot- light. FSA reports have identified that not all advice is of the quality required and this will cause firms to place even greater emphasis on checking business to ensure advisers are performing to the highest standard.
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The click and the dead
11 Aug 2005
Lenders believe the best online systems will win business, says Andrea Tryphonides
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The frill of it all
11 Aug 2005
Nicola York asks if clients want added-value services on critical cover or if they consider them to be fripperies that push up policy costs
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Thinktank to draw up compulsion blueprint
11 Aug 2005
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TMP bearing up for the future
11 Aug 2005
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Top experts for our Pensions Summit
11 Aug 2005
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Turner report changes are set for 2010
11 Aug 2005
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Two new members join ABI Expert Working Group on HIV
16 Aug 2005
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Two points for own goal
11 Aug 2005
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UBS plans move into mortgages
11 Aug 2005
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UCB rate reduction on self-cert and BTL
12 Aug 2005
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U-turn brings electro extension
11 Aug 2005
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White hopes of the equity income sector
11 Aug 2005
I always look forward to seeing Principal Investment Management's White List of UK equity income funds.
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Who carries can on tax-free protection?
11 Aug 2005
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Winning hand at card game
11 Aug 2005
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Winterthur pension business booming
11 Aug 2005
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With-profits sales set to make a comeback
11 Aug 2005
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Yorkshire offers new offset tracker for life
16 Aug 2005
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Youngest associate for PFS is just 21
11 Aug 2005
