Industry News - April, 2009

Zurich has announced a new development to its popular golf tournament, which is held to raise money for charity. A new online golf game has been launched by the financial services firm so businesses and individuals can get involved all over the world.

The Zurich Classic Golf Tournament has taken place for the past five years, providing a financial marketing opportunity for attendees and rais... more...

Standard Life Investments is the latest firm to win a prestigious award for its financial services. The company has scooped the 'Global Fixed Income, unhedged' category prize at the Asian Investor Awards 2009.

This ceremony gives Standard Life Investments a financial marketing opportunity on a global scale, with the award set to presented at a ceremony on Thursday May 21st.

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Independent financial advisers (IFAs) who had particularly a good year in 2008 have been recognised by Unbiased.co.uk. The professional advice website has announced the winners of its media services IFA of the year 2008 competition.

This financial services marketing contest has placed Tom McPhail, Hargreaves Lansdown and Peter McGahan, Worldwide Financial Planning as the ... more...

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has scooped a prestigious award at the UK Pensions Awards. The firm won three awards in all at the event, which was organised by Professional Pensions.

The categories it triumphed in were fixed interest manager of the year, pooled manager of the year and property manager of the year, while the company was also shortlisted for two further awards.

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AA has claimed that it is in a strong position to deliver good value, despite painting a gloomy outlook for the immediate future in insurance. The insurance services firm has published its latest British Insurance Premium Benchmark.

This has revealed that there has been a first quarter increase in car insurance premiums. The average price quoted by firms rose by 1.3 per cent to &... more...

A building society in Yorkshire has announced the amount of money it managed to raise for Comic Relief this year. Leeds Building Society collected more than £10,000 for the charity.

This included efforts from employees of the society, as well as its members, with a variety of special activities taking place to raise funds. These included a singing competition to ABBA hits at the head office of the firm.

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A new set of free seminars aiming to help small businesses to beat the recession has been launched by Barclays. The series is called Let's Talk and will be taking place across the UK.

The financial services marketing events intend to give tangible advice to firms and look at the wider economic circumstances and how small companies fit in. They are split into two sections,... more...

Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs) have been recommending the services of Legal and General, new research has found. A financial services marketing study has revealed seven out of every ten IFAs are commending a pensions policy from the firm.

The research was conducted with Cofunds by Legal and General and included more than 200 IFAs in the pension field. More than two thirds were recomme... more...