Industry
VAM launches lower charging clean share class for fund range
Luxembourg-based asset manager VAM Funds has launched a clean share class option for its Ucits fund range.
US life insurance slump shows no signs of abating
American life insurance activity continued its downward trajectory and lost further ground in July, an index measuring the industry’s business levels shows.
Goldman Sachs to sell entire Rothesay Life stake
Goldman Sachs has agreed to sell its remaining stake in UK-based life insurer Rothesay Life to MassMutual Life Insurance and to funds managed or advised by investment firm Blackstone and Singaporean fund management company GIC.
Retirement | 9 Aug 17
Sharp rise in UK advice firms providing pension transfers
There has been a 17% increase in the number of UK financial advice firms with regulatory permission to conduct defined benefit (DB) pension transfers over the past financial year, as demand from clients continues to rise.
Australia’s biggest bank flags sale of life insurance business
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is in talks to sell its life insurance business, the bank has revealed as it reported a 4.6% rise in annual cash earnings to AUD9.88bn (£6bn, $7.8bn, €6.64bn) and raised its dividend.