Friends Life added £92m to new total life and pensions business in Q1 fuelled by UK sales of £172m, results reveal.
Professional Pensions has unveiled the programme for the PP Corporate Platform Forum 2011.
The surplus of defined benefit schemes monitored by the Pension Protection Fund slipped from £45.5bn in March to £2.3bn last month.
FRANCE - Alcatel-Lucent made a cash contribution of €42m ($60m) to its worldwide pension funds in Q1, the company's quarterly financial statement shows.
UK - Amundi ETF is expanding into the UK with the launch of 16 exchange-traded funds on the London Stock Exchange.
JP Morgan Asset Management, UniSuper, BNY Mellon, International Asset Management, Russell Investments
Russell Investments has hired a senior investment consultant from Towers Watson to boost its EMEA consulting and advisory services team.
Amundi ETF is expanding into the UK with the launch of 16 exchange-traded funds on the London Stock Exchange.
Travel agent Thomas Cook has closed its final salary pension scheme to future accrual.
One third of employers will enable final salary scheme members to access more of their pension earlier in retirement after forthcoming income drawdown reform, Towers Watson says.