Ample group sales director Alan Easter has quit the firm.
Ample, which now trades under the Interactive Investor banner, was acquired from AMP by Capital Accumulation last March. Interactive offers online share dealing, a best of breed fund supermarket and a comparative mortgage quotation service.
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Scoteq protect offers guaranteed critical rates
Scottish Equitable Protect is to provide guaranteed rates on life with critical-illness protection from February 14.
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Design of the times
The pension scheme changes taking effect from April 6, 2006 will simplify matters considerably – it would be churlish to argue otherwise.
Life offices give pledge on consultants as ifas ask, where is the man from the pru??
Life insurers gave a guarantee that specialist consultants are here to stay after IFAs asked: “Where is the man at the Pru?”Life offices Legal & General, Norwich Union and Prudential pledged to keep roving broker consultants after intermediaries complained that they never received a visit from the Prudential. But the IFAs at the Money Marketing […]
Don’t let young employees ‘opt out’ of the pensions conversation
New research has revealed that the highest percentage of opt-out rates in auto-enrolment is made up of 22- to 30-year-olds (28.49 per cent of 2,102 people surveyed, who chose to opt out of schemes, were in this age bracket).
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Independence of Woodford directors called into question
Concerns have been raised about the independence of two directors at Neil Woodford’s £855m Patient Capital Trust after a report in The Times reveals they have jobs at companies in which the fund owns a stake. According to The Times, Patient Capital Trust chairwoman Susan Searle is also deputy chairwoman of Mercia Technologies, a quoted […]
Lloyds posts 23% jump in profits
Lloyds Banking Group’s pre-tax profits have jumped 23 per cent to hit £1.6bn for the quarter, latest results show. For the three months to the end of March, the bank has reported net income of £4,3bn, up 4 per cent year on year, as Lloyds sounded a bullish note on the prospects for the UK […]
Metro Bank chair survives protest vote from likes of Royal London
Metro Bank’s chairman Vernon Hill has been re-elected despite opposition from activist shareholders such as Royal London. Hill has received criticism from a number of major shareholders over payments to his wife’s company Interarch totalling £21m since Metro Bank’s inception in 2010. The board at Commerce Bank previously ousted Hill from his former role at […]