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Financial strength of life offices

Story by: Joe McGrath, Money Management

Assurers vow to tough it out in equities

• Time published: 00:01
• Date published: 01.08.2008
• Published in: Insurance

Guaranteeing the guarantees

In turbulent stock markets, guaranteed returns can be attractive to risk averse investors. But how do providers cover the risks of providing such guarantees? Tillinghast's Tigran Kalberer, principal, and Manuel Sales, consultant, look at what goes on behind the scenes

• Date published: 01.08.2008

Head to head

IFA networks are facing increased competition from support services providers and now they have the RDR to contend with. Can they survive, asks Geordie Clarke?

• Date published: 01.08.2008

Income protection

Why is income protection (IP) the black sheep of the family? Alan Lakey of Highclere Financial Services says it's down to harsh underwriting and complex claims definitions, which make IP even more dangerous than the Wild West vista of the early critical illness market

• Date published: 01.08.2008

Mortgage spotlight - Cutting down the dispossessed

Rate rises mean that some remortgagors will face severe financial hardship, but is repossession inevitable, asks Laverne Hadaway?

• Date published: 01.08.2008

Multi-manager spotlight - Institutional investors poised for sea change

How viable is the latest preference for investment outsourcing through multi-managers for Britain's growing corporate pension funds? Maryrose Fison takes a look at retirement solutions

• Date published: 01.08.2008

Outside the box

Outside fund managers as links for personal pensions have become an established practice, but extra charges for specialist management can eat into performance. Janet Walford OBE looks at what's on offer

• Date published: 01.08.2008

Pensions spotlight - SIPP prom only four-star

The pensions industry is increasingly behaving as if consumers have no voice, suggests John Chapman

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Protection spotlight - Down, but not out

Falling sales of critical illness cover in recent years have led some to question whether it is in terminal decline. Helen Pridham considers the immediate past and prospects for its future

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Should there be a cut off for complaints?

Disputes over damages and missales have a 15 year time limit in English courts of law. But, bizarrely, this does not apply to financial services. Is this fair or even legal? Gareth Shaw investigates

• Date published: 01.08.2008

Taking stock August 2008

Past success does not guarantee future profit for unit trust managers, says former investment banker Russell Taylor, but stock market history can at least help investors identify opportunity or danger in advance

• Date published: 01.08.2008

Tax spotlight - Offshore funds v offshore bonds

Following the Chancellor's attack on non-UK domiciles who have been resident in the UK for the past seven years, Nick Williams of Clerical Medical highlights an alternative solution to paying the Revenue an annual £30,000 charge

• Date published: 01.08.2008

Statistics - August 2008

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• Date published: 01.08.2008