Skandia Investment Management chief investment officer Clive Hale has resigned from the company, saying he wants to spend more time with his family. He is being replaced by Hargreaves Lansdown investment director Alan Durrant, who will join SIM once the FSA has approved his appointment. Hale's regulatory responsibilities will be taken on immediately by group investment director Jim Roberts, with support from Jason Collins, deputy chief investment officer.
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Rating firm checks out Standard Life solvency
Standard Life's true capital position is “significantly weaker” than the company has claimed and the industry believed, says rating agency Fitch. The report – Reality Check: Is Standard That Poor? – warns that the plans to raise £750m in hybrid debt will be costly and that Standard's days as a mutual are numbered. It says: […]
Underwriting success
There used to be a story told at direct-sales conventions comparing a life office with a car. In the driver's seat, with a maniacal grin on his face, sat the sales director, his foot hard down on the accelerator. In the passenger seat, the finance director was frantically stretching over to put his foot on […]
ABI welcomes international accounting standards
The ABI has welcomed the introduction of a new international accounting standard for share-based remuneration announced by the International Accounting Standards Board. ABI head of investment affairs Peter Montagnon says: “Share-based remuneration is not a free lunch. It involves substantial cost, and investors firmly believe that it should be charged to profits. We congratulate Sir […]
Nationwide Building Society – Five-Year Tracker Mortgage
Type: Tracker mortgage Tracker term: Five years Tracker rate: Up to 95% of valuation - Bank of England base rate plus 0.74%, up to 90% of valuation - Bank of England base rate plus 0.34 %, up to 75% of valuation - Bank of England base rate plus 0.24 % Payable rate: Up to 95% […]
Are central banks looking at a broken speedometer?
By James Dowey, chief economist & CIO at Neptune WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF CHUGGING ALONG AT 3 PER CENT A YEAR? That was the average rate of real economic growth in the advanced world from the end of the Second World War until the late 2000s. Despite all of the recessions and social changes […]
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Editor’s note: British Steel shows the menace of unregulated introducers
Last week, the great and the good of the advice profession gathered in Port Talbot. An industrial town in deepest South Wales may seem an unlikely location for a high-profile conference, until you fully grasp the magnitude of what has happened there over the past 12 months and its impact on the planning profession. While […]
Former pensions minister Altmann to chair fintech firm
Former pensions minister Ros Altmann is to chair a pensions fintech firm focused on auto-enrolment. Pensionsync, which is part of the FCA’s Regulatory Sandbox, wants to improve auto-enrolment administration by focusing on data protection. Altmann says:” Our mission will be to improve pension auto-enrolment administration to ensure more accurate and secure data. In the next stage of […]
Counting the human cost of the British Steel saga six months on…
Michael Klimes reports from Port Talbot on the legacy of misselling and how steelworkers are coping
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