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News - Personal accounts costs may rise

Friday, March 7th, 2008

The cost of setting up the personal accounts pensions system may be four times estimates, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has warned.

Stephen Haddrill, director general of the ABI, told the Work and Pensions Select Car insurance price it could cost 20 to set-up an individual personal account.

The government had hoped set-up costs could be […]

News - Russia’s oligarchs: Where are they now?

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Age: 40Business: Chief executive of Yukos, Russia’s biggest oil company since its merger with rival Sibneft.
Worth: About $8bn, making him possibly Russia’s richest man.
Pedigree: Left the Soviet Communist youth league to set up a banking business at the end of the Soviet era. Moved into oil and gas in 1995.

Hobbies: Funding liberal Russian opposition parties.

Where […]

News - The highway dialling code

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

A new law has come into force banning drivers from using mobile phones while at the wheel. Only it’s not quite as car insurance dallas as that…

Traffic police are going to have their work cut out from 1 December, as new laws come into effect clamping down on drivers using mobile phones.

A quarter of drivers […]

News - Q&A: The Pensions White paper and you

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

The White Paper proposes to lower the number of years it takes to earn a basic state pension to 30.

At present, women have to work 39 years to earn a basic state pension and men 44.

John Hutton, Work and Pensions Secretary, said the reform would boost the percentage of women retiring with a full state […]

News - Q&A: What the pensions report means for you

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

The Pensions Commission has published its final report, proposing a series of far-reaching reforms to the UK pensions system. It says there are significant problems with the current model, which will worsen unless action is taken.
BBC News explains the key findings.
What has been proposed?
The headline proposals are:

Increase the state pension age for men and […]

News - Glitch leaves drivers uninsured

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Two thousand motorists could be driving illegally after a major insurer failed to renew their policies despite telling them it would.

High performance car insurance Insurance (CIS) has admitted it sent out letters and certificates to these customers but did not take the money to renew their motor insurance cover.

The company is writing to the customers […]

News - Insurers call for pensions role

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Insurers have urged the government to reject the Pensions Commission’s model of a national savings scheme.

The Cheap student car insurance of British Insurers (ABI) said that setting up the scheme would be expensive and unnecessary.

Under the Commission’s plan, people would be enrolled into the scheme but with the right to opt out.

The ABI said […]

News - GM loses $1.1bn as car sales slow

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Flagging sales and the rising cost of employee healthcare pushed General Motors to a net loss of $1.1bn (576m) in the first three months of 2005.

The world’s biggest car maker warned in March it would drive deep into the red, but the loss - the worst since 1992 - is at the top end of […]

News - Steering a path to recovery?

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

US carmaking giant General Motors (GM) is expected to unveil another drop in profits later this week.

This would mark the group’s fifth quarterly drop in earnings and thus add to the ever-growing chorus of concern about the Discount car insurance company.

The predictions come despite the group racking up its best worldwide sales - 9.2 million […]

News - Profile: Mitt Romney

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Mitt Romney, who announced in February 2007 that he was seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 2008, has had a varied career as a businessman, the organiser of the 2002 Winter Olympics, and governor of the state of Massachusetts.

But much of the attention that he has attracted has been the result of two […]

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