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Alex Beveridge talks to Trevor Matthews, CEO of Friends Provident, about how UK life companies are set to survive the economic slowdown, their push into the Middle East and the unsolved issue of means testing

Alex Beveridge: What is your view on how Personal Accounts in the UK have progressed? Trevor Matthews: We still have the two fundamental problems which we have not solved and which the governmen...

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