Scotland news alert

Please click on the title for the full article.
Follow this link for news alerts on other subjects

Updated 18 May 2012

18 May 2012
Aegon back in profit
Figures for the first quarter show the benefits of the structural reforms of the past two years which have taken £80 million in annual costs out of the British arm of the Dutch business. (Scotsman)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

11 May 2012
Scotsman Scottish Business Briefing - Friday 11 May, 2012
10 per cent fall in first-quarter new business as Scottish Life. (Scotsman)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

06 May 2012
Third of Scots workers to snub auto-enrolment
More than a third of Scottish workers plan to reject the government’s radical savings reforms when they come into force from October, a report out today reveals. (Scotsman)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

25 April 2012
New pension rules will lift Standard Life while Q1 sales defy forecasts
Standard Life yesterday predicted it will benefit from a raft of regulatory changes as it reported a smaller-than-expected dip in its first-quarter sales. (Scotsman)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

18 April 2012
Auto-enrolment concern for Scotland’s offshore oil and gas firms
Scotland’s oil and gas companies are in a costly race against time to enrol workers automatically into a new generation of pension schemes after an exemption given to them was controversially scrapped by the government. (Scotsman)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

18 April 2012
Scottish GDP contracts 0.1% in Q4 2011
Scotland’s Chief Statistician has announced the release of Gross Domestic Product for Scotland for 2011 Q4.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

08 March 2012
Salmond pitches Scottish infrastructure as scheme investment ‘safe haven’
Alex Salmond has urged UK pension funds to invest in Scottish infrastructure projects and back greater debt issuance powers for Scottish utility firms. (Professional Pensions)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

08 March 2012
Scottish deaths lowest since records began
The number of deaths in Scotland fell to 53,661 in 2011, the lowest number since records began in 1855. (GRO)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

29 February 2012
Scots population to grow by 10% in next 25 years
East coast population growth to fuel increase say National Records of Scotland. (Scotsman)

Disclaimer:
These news stories do not represent the Profession's views. They are collected using general website search techniques.