FTAdviser latest:Prudential puts equity dangers in spotlight

Story by: James Smith, Investment Adviser

Prudential shifted several billion pounds of its £60bn-plus With-Profits fund into corporate bonds over 2009, highlighting growing risks in equity markets.

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 15.03.2010
  • Published in: Investments

Skandia reveals with profits reviews result in exits

Half of advisers polled by Skandia said following a review of a with profits fund, the majority of their clients chose to transfer out of their policies.

  • Date published: 05.03.2010

Prudential calls with profits predictions

Prudential is maintaining annual bonuses on all personal pensions, bonds and conventional with-profits products while estimating that policy holders will receive total bonus payments of £2bn this year.

  • Date published: 04.03.2010

LV= with profits bonuses may hit £76.3m

LV= with profits policy holders could be in line for an estimated £76.3m in bonuses as the life and pensions business announced its fund had made an investment return of 15.4 per cent last year.

  • Date published: 04.03.2010

LV= with profits bonuses to hit £76.3m

LV= has reported its with profits fund made an investment return of 15.4 per cent over 2009 and as a result an estimated £76.3m in bonuses will be added to policies.

  • Date published: 01.03.2010

Pru with profits bonuses to top £2bn

Prudential is maintaining annual bonus rates for personal pension policies and with profits bonds

  • Date published: 26.02.2010

L&G with profits funds move out of the red zone

The majority of Legal & General's with profits policies maturing in the first quarter have moved from red to green status, following a 14 per cent return across all L&G with profit investments last year.

  • Date published: 25.02.2010

Seminars to show off Skandia bond tool

Skandia is hosting free seminars across the north for financial advisers, highlighting its with profits bond analyser tool ahead of the end of the tax year.

  • Date published: 25.02.2010

Legal & General declares £413m with profits bonuses

Legal & General today (18 February) announced bonus rates for with profits customers after delivering a return in 2009 of 14 per cent, before tax, on assets managed for investors.

  • Date published: 18.02.2010

Fund success

Wesleyan Assurance Society has announced a 20.1 per cent gross investment return on its with profits life and pensions fund for last year.

  • Date published: 18.02.2010

Features

With profits prophecies

In an early January article in the Daily Telegraph, a financial journalist was bemoaning the fact that the FTSE 100 had closed 22 per cent down on its 1999 figure.

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  • Date published: 25.02.2010

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Comments

Without an inch of common sense

Without profit bonds are the bane of my life. How on earth did someone ever concoct such a catastrophe?

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  • Date published: 11.02.2010

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Tales from the crypt

While investing may be for the long-term, individual investments should not. Flexibility is vital if investors are to get the best return on their money.

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  • Date published: 21.01.2010

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