Aviva launches face-to-face adviser service in the UK
Aviva will have an in-house team of advisers offering face-to-face pensions and retirement advice to customers in the UK by the end of the year.
Author: Kirsten Hastings
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Jersey targets philanthropic investment
Jersey has developed a brochure to advertise the island as a destination for the formation and administration of philanthropic structures.
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Qatar royal family now Deutsche Bank’s biggest shareholder
Qatar’s royal family has increased its stake in Deutsche Bank to nearly 10% and recommended a replacement for an open position on the bank’s supervisory board.
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Curtis Banks buys Sipp book out of administration
Curtis Banks Group has acquired the self-invested personal pension (Sipp) business of UK-based European Pensions Management (EPM) for an undisclosed sum.
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Standard Life offers DB to DC support for advisers
Standard Life is launching a suite of materials to offer more support to advisers in the defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) transfer space.
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New Earth funds to be wound up
The high court of justice of the Isle of Man has granted a wind-up application for three unregulated funds, known collectively as the New Earth Group of Funds.
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Luxembourg’s new alternative investment fund vehicle approved
Luxembourg’s reserved alternative investment fund (Raif) has been approved by the duchy’s parliament and will come into force three days after publication in Luxembourg’s official gazette.
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PEOPLE MOVES: UK government, Zurich, Deutsche Bank
On her second day as UK prime minister, Theresa May has cleaned house and named her new cabinet. Zurich International Life has appointed a new chief operations officer, while Deutsche Bank has provisionally appointed a chief executive for Asia Pacific.
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Most UK advisers unconcerned about robo-advice
Advisers in the UK do not see the launch of online robo-advice alternatives as a threat to their face-to-face advice business models, research from MetLife shows.
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Canada Life Group Insurance managing director McMullan dies
Ian McMullan, managing director of Canada Life Group Insurance, died on 8 July following a battle with cancer.
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BSI Bank’s former Singapore chief executive sues over bonus
The former chief executive of BSI Bank in Singapore, Hans-Peter Brunner, is suing the Swiss bank for freezing his bonus two months after the Singapore regulator ordered that the bank be shut down.
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Jersey signs tax agreement with Cyprus
Jersey is keen to sign more double taxation agreements (DTA) having signed its latest such accord with the Republic of Cyprus on Monday.