Industry
RL360° grows 5% despite ‘difficult market conditions’
Isle of Man-based life insurer RL360° grew its present value of new business premiums (PVNBP) by 5% in 2017, continuing the company’s record of year-on-year growth.
Faulty Aviva platform sends advisers false 10% drop warning
Aviva has been forced to issue another apology to advisers after they were wrongly sent a notification that the value of their clients’ portfolios had dropped by more than 10%.
Guardian Wealth hit with $1m fine by Qatar regulator
The Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority has imposed two fines plus costs on Guardian Wealth Management Qatar (in liquidation), a move the company suggests is in retaliation to its decision to cease operating in the country in 2015.
Recruitment woes squeezing Singapore advice firms
Firms in Singapore are under pressure to hire locally, making an already arduous process even more challenging, not to mention expensive!
Paradise Papers expose gangster property owners
BBC reporters poring over the Paradise Papers say they have found evidence that Ukrainian gangsters bought luxury London properties with offshore help, a revelation that could support the media giant’s court defence that publishing the papers was in the public interest.