Friends Life

Labelling firm Avery Dennison and whisky distiller Glenmorangie have signed up to use Mercer's workplace savings offering - taking its total number of clients to 25.

MetLife has hired Stephanie Baillie to head up its expanding employee benefits operation from Friends Life.

Consultancies and fund managers are undertaking a massive expansion of their defined contribution teams in a bid to meet client demand ahead of auto-enrolment, PP can reveal.

In our end-of-year round-up we asked industry spokespeople to preview the year ahead in pensions.

Paul Bucksey has joined BlackRock's growing defined contribution business as head of defined contribution business development and client management.

Industry gets behind PP call to arms on decent defaults

More than £2bn of pension fund liabilities was transferred in the third quarter of the year through buy-ins, buyouts and longevity swaps, Hymans Robertson analysis shows.

Friends Life has announced the creation of a new in-house asset management business which will launch in the second half of 2012.

DCisions and Friends Life have developed the Friends Life Workplace Savings Index to track the investment behaviour of more than 700,000 of its consumers.

Women's contributions to occupational schemes fell 5% in real terms over the last 12 months, despite average contributions rising in line with inflation.