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Aegon offloads 200-year-old UK business to Standard Life for £2bn

Deal will create pensions and savings group with 16 million customers and £480bn of assets, while Aegon focuses on US

The Guardian - UK

Standard Life strikes £2bn deal to buy Aegon UK

Dutch financial firm Aegon will own a 15.3% stake in the combined group following the deal.

Evening Standard

Standard Life buys rival in £2bn deal to create pension and savings giant

Dutch financial firm Aegon will own a 15.3 per cent stake in the combined group following the deal

The Independent UK

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Stocks rise as inflation dips and oil price rebounds

The headline Consumer Prices Index rose 3.2% year-on-year in November, slowing from 3.6% in October.

Evening Standard

Bond market power: why Rachel Reeves is keen to keep the £2.7tn ‘beast’ onside

Hugely influential traders will be hanging on the chancellor’s every word when she announces her budget

The Guardian - UK

Political unease sparks increase in UK bond yields as FTSE 100 dips

The possibility of a political challenge to Sir Keir Starmer could put the pound under pressure, analysts warned.

Evening Standard

FTSE 100 closes higher as gold and oil climb

The FTSE 100 index closed up 13.23 points, or 0.1%, at 9,221.14.

Evening Standard

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Stocks slide and pound dives as bond yields spike

The FTSE 100 index closed down 79.65 points at 9,116.69.

Evening Standard

Pension providers ‘to boost saver outcomes and UK growth’ under new initiative

Pension assets in the scope of the new agreement total £252 billion.

Evening Standard

Caught in the middle: UK firms brace for fallout from Trump’s global trade war

While UK may not be in direct line of fire, knock-on effects on global trade has British businesses worried

The Guardian - UK

Two City firms team up to invest £20bn of pension funds in UK businesses

Phoenix Group and Schroders will target fast-growing green energy, windfarms, solar, property and small business

The Guardian - UK

Phoenix partners DWP for 50+ jobs fair

Recruitment event aims to help tackle post-pandemic rise in elderly unemployed

Insider UK

Mum went straight to GP after seeing social media post

Gemma Crossley thought she had IBS years

Liverpool Echo

FCA urges Capita clients to ascertain if data was compromised in cyber-attack

Corporate clients that outsource work to Capita – including Aviva and Phoenix Group – must ‘assess fallout from data breach’

The Guardian - UK

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CBI’s future in doubt after flood of UK’s biggest firms quit

Members including John Lewis and NatWest exit after Guardian reports of sexual misconduct allegations

Insider UK

Early retirement 'is driving economic inactivity' in Scotland

Pension wealth among Scottish 50 to 64 year olds is around £100,000 less than required for a ‘moderate’ retirement living standard

The Independent UK

Extend net zero planning to all big companies or risk climate goals, Rishi Sunak warned

Exclusive: Major private firms say failure to extend transition planning threatens UK’s ambition to be world’s first net zero-aligned financial centre

Insider UK

Scottish finance firms demand policy consistency to guide climate investment

Ethical finance conference debate also sees criticism of divestment movement

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Insider UK

Phoenix Group makes executive committee changes

Current life companies chief executive and group director of heritage business set to retire later this year

Evening Standard

Phoenix confident after record £950 million cash generation

Analyst admits ‘boring can be beautiful’ as insurer posts market-beating results

Evening Standard

Phoenix Group buys insurer Sun Life UK for £248 million

Last year business had 480,000 policies and £10 billion of assets under management

Insider UK

Phoenix Group to buy Sun Life UK for £248 million

The deal is expected to deliver around £470m of incremental long-term cash generation

Birmingham Post

Pharmacy distribution site emerges for Phoenix Group to serve North of England

260,000 sq ft Wakefield site to be completed before end of 2022

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