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Game set and match to the Life Insurers
Use Of Longevity Swaps And Buy-Ins And Other Unforced Errors Game Set and Match to the Life Insurers The Example of Aviva Plc: Life Insurer and DB Sponsor Strong Margins. Buried Losses Life Lessons For Us All This is … Continue reading
And these life companies had mutual intent? Some can remember, some can return it.
Standard Life – an insurer adrift. Standard Life has “bought into” ReAsurre’s Midco Pension Scheme. I have written about this and you can read it here. I have published the excellent comment received on my email yesterday. It came on … Continue reading
Capital punishment, 24 years on
In 2002 a falling market nearly sank UK life insurers. Today the same crash would barely move them. Gordon Aitken Jun 23, 2026 Note: These are Gordon Aitken’s personal views and do not constitute investment advice. See full disclaimer below. … Continue reading
Later Life Lending with the Equity Release Council
I am not an adviser of, nor do I work for a provider of, but I am a beneficiary of equity release. Our family has gone from property rich but cash short to happily in balance because of a mortgage … Continue reading
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Come on Aviva – get your act together!
I have been involved in this peripherally. The story was broken by Steve Webb in the Daily Mail and it doesn’t seem to be going away. There is clearly fault from Gavin H’s employer but it is the standards of … Continue reading
The Pensions Minister involved in sorting Gavin’s salary sacrifice mix-up.
There is more to Gavin H’s story; here is the latest episode.
Retiring with Aviva is not as easy as they make you think!
Gavin H’s struggle with Aviva to get his tax relief paid into his Aviva DC pot was taken up by Steve Webb in Money Mail in March. It was not until April that it became clear that the victim is … Continue reading
When tax incentives go unpaid to those buying workplace pensions!
This is an article from This is Money , published in March 2026 – you can read the original here You can read the story of the man who asked Steve Webb the question when he found out he’d been … Continue reading
Just, L&G, Aviva, USS and Hymans write to Reeves explaining how to finance UK growth
Keating and Aubrey told us how gilts could not do the job. Last September Thomas Aubrey and Con Keating highlighted the inanity of the Government’s plan to finance with gilts the growth needed for new towns and growth that is … Continue reading
The damage that QE did to a saver who did what the Trustees and Insurer told her to
This is the story of one of my readers who has suffered such financial loss from following her trustee’s glidepath to retirement that she is making a complaint. I have been writing this week about the Bank of England’s comments … Continue reading