The Times Money Mentor Awards 2024
We’ve been awarded The Times Money Mentor award for Best Pension Drawdown Provider, as voted for by a panel of industry experts and The Times' money mentors.
A bit about us and what we do
Our purpose is to help individuals and families live financially confident lives.
In 2023, we reached a historic milestone celebrating 180 years as a leading UK life and pensions mutual insurer. Our 1,300 colleagues help our members and customers to protect their income while they are working and maximise it when they stop.
We work with a wide range of financial advisers and it is through them that the majority of customers will buy our products and services. Good advice ensures better financial outcomes and frees people from the worry of making complex decisions that could have long-term implications. As well as our relationship with financial advisers, our in-house advice team provide whole of market ‘at retirement’ advice and direct to consumer products.
Over a million members and customers trust us to look after their futures, families and finances and we put them at the heart of all that we do. As an investment, protection, in-house advice and retirement specialist, we offer a range of products, services and advice including investments, life insurance, income protection, and retirement income solutions such as equity release, fixed term annuities and drawdown products.
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We’re carbon negative
This means that we’ve calculated our carbon emissions and offset 110% of our total emissions which has supported worthwhile projects.
Voted for by our colleagues in 2022, we supported the following projects:
We will continue to maintain our carbon negative status, that we achieved during 2022, and work to identify and implement environmental improvement initiatives to further lower our carbon footprint.