Friends Life

Pensions Minister Steve Webb has revealed that Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) officials met representatives of leading insurers 27 times over the last four months.

Friends Life has announced plans to launch a master trust following increased focus on good scheme governance from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) and other industry bodies.

Woman anticipate receiving a retirement income that is almost a quarter less than the amount men expect to get, according to Friends Life research.

Friends Life chief investment officer Mark Versey is set to leave the company to take up the role of director of client solutions at Aviva Investors in the New Year.

Friends Life added £6m of new corporate benefits business between July and September and says in its interim results that it aims to add £6m more in Q4.

Friends Life has named Greg Horsnell as group internal audit director following his departure from Old Mutual where he was audit director for long-term savings.

Insurance companies in the FTSE100 have some of the best defined benefit (DB) scheme funding levels as a result of Solvency II, research from JLT Employee Benefits (JLTEB) shows.

Mercer is to launch a master trust through its workplace savings platform, offering access to Aegon, Friends Life and Zurich schemes.

Friends Life has released its consumer segmentation tool to businesses in a bid to help them better understand and target their employees when delivering corporate benefits packages.

Friends Life has reported neutral asset flows into its corporate benefits platform despite staging over 40 schemes for auto-enrolment (AE), its interim results show.