Scottish Friendly Assurance is launching its growth and security with profits bond for 2001 with a bonus rate of 6 per cent, guaranteed until January 2002. This is the same bonus rate which applied to the bond in 2000. With a minimum initial investment of £3,000, single investments over £10,000 in the bond receive an additional one per cent allocation with a loyalty bonus of 2.5 per cent extra units payable after 10 years. Scottish Friendly's new business increased by 25 per cent in 2000.
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ScotEq eyes are on protection market
Scottish Equitable's new individual protection product range will offer personal, mortgage and business protection through menu-based products. The new range, available from January 23, will be marketed under the brand name Scottish Equitable Protect. Each menu offers a range of different protection benefits such as life insurance, criticalillness cover and total and permanent disability cover. […]
Three year discount from Derbyshire
Derbyshire Building Society has introduced the three year discount mortgage. The mortgage is aimed at first time buyers and people who are looking to remortgage their properties. It has a discount of 1.49 per cent from the societies standard variable rate for the first three years of the mortgage for loans of up to 95 […]
FSA passed Equitable fit a month before closure
The FSA is coming under pressure to explain why it granted Equitable Life approval for stakeholder pensions just a month before it closed its doors to new business. The regulator is also under fire from regulation lawyers for giving too much weight to the opinions of Equitable's legal team which was confident Equitable would win […]
Take cover
The rules for stakeholder pensions could have serious implications for investors transferring from a personal pension with life cover included to a stakeholder pension with the same benefit from April 6. Investors may find that they are unable to have the same level of life cover as before because the new calculation method means the […]
Europe: Neptune’s Burnett looks beyond Greece
Watch Rob Burnett, manager of the Neptune European Opportunities Fund, discuss the Greek bailout deal and its potential implications for European equities. In the video, Rob discusses: Why, with the Greek crisis receding, markets can now focus on Europe’s strong fundamentals The resilience of European markets and why the recovery is on a solid footing […]
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FSCS to pay back 2,700 clients of collapsed DFM Beaufort
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme will automatically compensate hundreds of clients of a collapsed discretionary fund manager, but other investors will have to wait another five months to get their money back. London-based Beaufort Securities has been investigated by both the FCA and US authorities. An indictment from the US Department of Justice alleges that […]
Profile: Fiducia on really knowing your clients
Fiducia managing director on ‘good old-fashioned’ customer service in the digital world Anthony Scott is adept in the art of communication. As an adviser and a novelist (he has written the novels ‘On Ashover Hill’ and ‘The Birthday Gift’) it is crucial for the Fiducia Group managing director to engage and build a rapport with […]
FCA warns over advisers giving ‘inadequate information’ to DB transfer specialists
The FCA has reiterated its warnings that advisers outsourcing defined benefit transfer advice to firms with relevant qualifications cannot divorce themselves from responsibility for the eventual recommendation. While existing FCA rules require additional qualifications to advise on DB transfers, and the FCA has written to all firms who have DB transfer permissions as part of […]
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