Mattioli Woods is to create 100 new jobs at its Leicester-based pensions and wealth management business over the next 18 months. 31-Jan-2013
Standard Life is to shed 139 jobs at its Edinburgh-based pensions and savings business, affecting staff in IT, marketing and investments. 22-Nov-2012
Aegon is to transfer the operation of its defined benefit pension schemes and 100 staff to JLT Benefit Solutions early next year. 05-Nov-2012
Babcock International Group has sold its Caithness-based pensions administration office to Aon Hewitt for undisclosed terms, with the transfer of 33 staff. 25-Oct-2012
Diligenta is to shed up to 140 jobs in Liverpool, in order to transfer its life and pensions administration work to India. 27-Sep-2012
Punter Southall is to relocate its London-based pensions consultancy to a 35,000 sq ft office at 11 Strand in the first half of 2012. 14-Dec-2011
Aviva is planning to close its life insurance and pension administration office in Bristol with the loss of up to 380 jobs, in order to transfer the work to York, Sheffield and Norwich. 16-Nov-2011
Aviva is to shed 115 of the 425 jobs at its UK life and pensions division, with the closure of sales offices in Southampton, Norwich, Leicester and Manchester. 20-Oct-2011
Capita Group has won an estimated £105m contract from The Pensions Regulator to help employers with a new requirement to automatically enrol staff into workplace pension schemes. 29-Sep-2011
Mercer is to relocate its Edinburgh-based pensions and investment business, which has about 100 staff, to a larger site at the Quartermile development in November. 27-Sep-2011
Punter Southall has acquired the Newcastle-based corporate pensions business of Brewin Dolphin, with the transfer of 14 staff. 06-Sep-2011
Royal London is to create 105 new jobs at its life and pensions offices in Wilmslow and London, but 222 jobs will be lost in Liverpool as part of its merger with Royal Liver. 15-Aug-2011
MetLife and Capita are looking to create up to 150 jobs at their new pensions sales centre in Belfast over the next two years. 15-Aug-2011
Capita Hartshead is to acquire the trade and assets of the pensions administration and software business of NorthgateArinso for £27m, with the transfer of 90 staff in Bristol, Marlow and Stoke. 25-Jul-2011
Aegon is to shed 213 jobs at its life and pensions business in Edinburgh and Lytham, and a further 106 staff will be outsourced to a document management firm. 23-May-2011
AJ Bell is to expand the 370-strong workforce at its pensions administration business in Manchester and Tunbridge Wells with 40 new jobs over the next few months. 07-Apr-2011
The Department of Social Development (DSD) is to start relocating 95 jobs from Belfast to a new state pensions office in Londonderry later this year. 23-Mar-2011
Babcock International is planning to relocate its pensions office, which has 37 staff, from Thurso to Forss. 15-Mar-2011
Goldman Sachs is to acquire Paternoster, the London-based pensions insurance firm, for £260m, in order to expand its Rothesay Life division. 12-Jan-2011
Towergate Financial has acquired A1 Financial Services, the Wetherby-based provider of financial planning, life assurance, mortgages and pensions. 16-Dec-2010
Chesnara is to acquire Save & Prosper, the Welwyn Garden City-based pensions provider, for £64m. 29-Nov-2010
BBS Consultants & Actuaries is to relocate its Bristol-based pensions advisory business to a 9,300 sq ft office at Canard Court in December. 18-Nov-2010
Aegon UK is to sell its HS Admin third-party pensions administration business in Daresbury to Goddard Perry for undisclosed terms, securing the future of 82 jobs. 27-Oct-2010
Aegon is to close its third-party pension administration and employee benefits software operations, with the loss of 90 jobs in Daresbury and London. 29-Sep-2010
Paternoster is seeking a buyer for its specialist pensions business, having appointed Willis to advise on its options. 16-Aug-2010
Mattioli Woods has bought City Trustees and City Pensions from Lighthouse Group for £1.8m, in order to expand its pensions consultancy into London. 10-Aug-2010
Xafinity has acquired a division of the UK pension schemes business of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which will involve the transfer of 49 staff and a new office opening in Manchester in August. 12-Jul-2010
RPMI, the railway industry pension schemes operator, is setting up a 10,700 sq ft office at Camomile Court in the City of London. 16-Jun-2010
Mattioli Woods has acquired the pension administration and employee benefits business of Cooper Parry Wealth Strategies for up to £1.2m. 05-May-2010
Capita Hartshead is planning to expand the workforce at its Sheffield-based pensions consultancy from 400 to at least 670. 22-Mar-2010
IFG Group has acquired James Hay, the Salisbury-based pensions firm with 533 staff, from Banco Santander for up to £39m. 11-Mar-2010
Capita is to shed up to 300 jobs at its life and pensions centre in Bristol this year, due to a decline in the workload on its Axa outsourcing contract. 04-Mar-2010
Skandia is to shed a further 150 of the 1,900 jobs at its pensions and investment office in Southampton. 17-Feb-2010
Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed plans to transfer up to 570 jobs from its life, pensions and investments administration operation in Aylesbury to Edinburgh and Bristol. 25-Nov-2009
RPMI is looking to expand the 226-strong workforce at its pensions administration business in Darlington over the next few months. 13-Oct-2009
Mattioli Woods is looking to double the workforce at its Leicester-based pensions business to more than 300 over the next five years, and up to £5m could be spent on acquisitions. 10-Sep-2009
Mattioli Woods is to expand the 180-strong workforce at its Leicestershire-based pensions business with 15 new jobs over the next year. 09-Jul-2009
AJ Bell is looking to recruit up to 40 new staff at the Manchester-based headquarters of its pensions business, with vacancies for marketing, accounts and administrative staff. 06-Jul-2009
Aviva is to sell its Australian insurance and pension operations to National Australia Bank for £452m, in order to fund acquisitions in India and China. 23-Jun-2009
Legal & General is to shed about 600 of the 6,000 jobs in its life and pensions business this year, affecting offices in Cardiff, Hove, London and Surrey. 26-Mar-2009
Axa has selected Capita as the preferred bidder to outsource the administration of 3.2m mature life and pensions policies, which could affect more than 350 jobs in Basingstoke, Bristol and Coventry. 26-Jan-2009
IFG Group has acquired Pensco and Nameridge, two Irish pensions companies, for £10m. 07-Oct-2008
TIAA-CREF, the US pension fund, is to set up an office in London to invest in European property, with the creation of up to six jobs over the next 18 months. 12-Aug-2008
Barclays Bank is to sell Barclays Life Assurance Company to Swiss Reinsurance for £753m, including 760,000 life insurance policies, pension policies and annuity contracts. 06-Aug-2008
Capita Hartshead, the pensions administrator, is to create almost 300 jobs at a new eight-storey headquarters due to open at Sheffield Parkway in April 2010. 16-Apr-2008
Legal & General Retail Investments is to acquire Suffolk Life, the Ipswich-based pensions provider, for about £62m. 14-Apr-2008
Xafinity has acquired Hazell Carr, the pensions consultancy with about 400 staff in Reading, Cardiff and Stirling, for undisclosed terms. 10-Apr-2008
Mattioli Woods, the pensions consultancy, is planning to create 50 new jobs at its Grove Park office near Leicester over the next three years, having acquired additional floor space. 21-Feb-2008
Friends Provident is to shed 600 jobs across its life and pensions operations in Manchester, Exeter, Dorking and Salisbury by the end of 2009, and will also consider outsourcing and the sale of F&C Asset Management. 01-Feb-2008
Capita is to shed 41 jobs at its life and pensions business support operation in Belfast. 23-Jan-2008
Prudential is to outsource some of its life and pensions administration work to Capita, in a £772m deal that will involve the transfer of 3,000 staff in Reading, Stirling and India. 29-Nov-2007
Friends Provident is to conduct a strategic review of its life and pensions business, which could lead to a sale or break-up. 15-Nov-2007
Capita Group is to acquire Higham Dunnett Shaw, the pensions administration firm with 260 staff in London, Edinburgh, Telford and Leeds, for £15m. 06-Sep-2007
Jardine Lloyd Thompson has acquired Portland Pensions, the pensions administrator with 50 staff in Bristol and Redditch, for £2.4m. 13-Jul-2007
Mattioli Woods has acquired Pension Consulting, the Leicester-based pension scheme administrator with 13 staff, for up to £1.9m. 11-Jul-2007
Xafinity Paymaster is currently setting up a new office in Stafford to provide pensions administration services to Telent, with the transfer of 29 Telent staff. 24-Apr-2007
Higham Dunnett Shaw is to shed up to 33 jobs at its Telford-based business providing consultancy and delivery services to the life and pensions industry. 09-Apr-2007
The Department for Work & Pensions is to close its Kingsmead House pensions office in Bath in March 2008, with the loss of 370 jobs. 29-Mar-2007
Standard Life, the Edinburgh-based life and pensions group, is planning to shed a further 1,000 jobs over the next two years, in order to save £100m a year by 2009. 23-Mar-2007
Norwich Union is to outsource the administration of life and pension policies to Swiss Re, with the transfer of about 1,000 staff at sites in Norwich and Stevenage. 08-Mar-2007
Towergate Partnership has acquired THB Clowes and THB Financial Services from THB for up to £11m, including insurance, pensions and executive benefits offices in Warwick and Nottingham. 05-Dec-2006
The Home Office is to relocate about 350 staff from its pay and pensions department in Bootle to a 36,000 sq ft office at the City Square development in Liverpool in February 2007. 06-Oct-2006
Abbey National has sold part of its James Hay pensions administration business to a management buy-out for undisclosed terms. 12-Jul-2006
Friends Provident is to set up an office in Singapore later this year, in order to expand its life and pensions products into Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. 08-Jun-2006
Axa Sun Life is to shed 350 jobs at its insurance, pensions and investments operations in Bristol and Coventry. 17-Mar-2006
Mattioli Woods has acquired Suffolk Life Trustee Company from Suffolk Life for an initial £0.7m, in order to expand its pensions consultancy. 31-Jan-2006
Mattioli Woods, the pensions consultancy, is planning to raise £6m in a flotation on Aim. 31-Oct-2005
Alliance Trust Savings is to acquire Wolanski & Co Trustees, including a SIPP and SSAS pensions administration business and 50 London-based staff. 04-Oct-2005
The Department for Work & Pensions is planning to set up an office for the Financial Assistance Scheme at Monks Cross in York, and some of the 100 staff may transfer from the existing pensions operation that is due to close in March. 17-Jan-2005
MGM Assurance is planning to shed about 10% of the 235 staff at its life and pensions office in Worthing. 04-Oct-2004
Aviva is planning to reorganise its long-term life and pensions business by merging ten subsidiaries into four, in order to cut costs and simplify its corporate structure. 16-Aug-2004
The Department for Work & Pensions is planning to close pension centres in York, Liverpool, Derby, Norwich, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Stockton, Wrexham, Burnley and Plymouth, as well as 500 benefit offices. 01-Jul-2004
Royal & Sun Alliance has sold its Scandinavian life and pensions business to SEB Trygg of Sweden for £173m. 28-Jun-2004
Mercer Human Resource Consulting is to close its pensions administration operation at Witham in Essex in May with the loss of up to 100 jobs. 22-Jan-2004
Charles Stanley has acquired EBS Management, EBS Pensioneer Trustees and EBS Self, in order to expand its business setting up pension schemes for individuals and small companies. 21-Jul-2003
F&C Management is considering plans to outsource the administration of its £41bn pension fund business to Mellon of the US, which would involve the transfer of about 95 London-based staff. 11-Jul-2003
Lincoln Financial Services is to close its pension review department in Gloucester, with the loss of 40 jobs. 14-May-2003
James Brearley & Sons has acquired Nichols Williams Durrant & Co, the Leeds-based investment and pensions adviser. 08-Apr-2003
The Department for Work & Pensions is to create 356 jobs at a new pensions advice centre in Derby over the next five months. 14-Jan-2003
Hazell Carr is to open a new office in Stirling in January to help insurance firms with their pension reviews, with the creation of 100 jobs. 04-Dec-2002
Aviva is to close its Norwich Union pensions processing centre at Romford with the loss of 190 jobs, and the work will be transferred to sites in Norwich and Stevenage. 14-Nov-2002
Canada Life is to close its UK life insurance and pensions salesforce and transfer some staff to independent financial adviser Lighthouse Group. 01-Oct-2002
Prudential is planning to transfer 850 life and pension call centre jobs and 100 support jobs from Reading to India. 30-Sep-2002
Alexander Forbes is to acquire Schroder Pensions Group, the provider of pension administration services, for up to £22m, in partnership with Lane Clark & Peacock. 18-Sep-2002
Schroders is planning to shed a further 250 jobs in its investment management business this year, and is close to announcing the sale of its pensions administration division. 04-Sep-2002
Graphite Capital has acquired a 62% stake in PIFC, the pensions advisory firm, for £17m, in order to benefit from the expected rise in demand for pensions advice as more companies look for alternatives to final salary-type pension schemes. 29-Jul-2002
Social Security Agency has announced plans to set up a new pension claims centre in Londonderry, with the creation of 190 jobs. 26-Jul-2002
Prudential has awarded a multi-million pound contract to Jardine Lloyd Thompson for the provision of pension administration services, and 50 Prudential staff will transfer to JLT. 24-Jul-2002
Scottish Provident is to close its office in Kendal later this year, with the loss of 210 jobs, in order to relocate the pensions business to existing sites in Glasgow and Edinburgh. 15-May-2002
IFG Group is to expand its financial services business through the acquisition of IPS Pensions, the Bristol-based provider of actuarial and pension services, for up to £15m. 11-Apr-2002
Royal London is planning to shed 350 jobs in its life and pensions salesforce, as the provision of traditional doorstep financial advice is no longer seen as cost-effective. 21-Mar-2002
CGNU has acquired a 50% stake in a subsidiary of Caja Espana for £88m, in order to increase its presence in the Spanish life and pensions market and gain access to 535 branches. 18-Dec-2001
Britannic is to transfer about 150 jobs from the recently-acquired Alba life and pensions business in Glasgow to its Wythall Green site near Birmingham, while a further 250 Glasgow-based jobs will be lost. 06-Dec-2001
Hays has won a £30m contract to provide personnel services to Liverpool Victoria, including recruitment and training for 2,800 insurance and pensions staff. 19-Nov-2001
CGNU is to create 250 jobs at its Norwich Union life and pensions business in York, having decided to relocate some administration processing investment from Croydon. 20-Aug-2001
CGNU is to acquire a 50% stake in Bia Galicia, the Spanish life and pensions business, from Caixa Galicia for £89m. 01-Aug-2001
The government has announced plans to set up 20 pension administration centres around the country, including one in Swansea that will create 500 new jobs. 05-Jul-2001
National Mutual, the pensions company with 690 staff, has agreed to a £370m takeover offer from GE Capital, and will now seek approval from its members. 25-Jun-2001
Transacsys is linking up with FPS to launch pension vending machines, which will enable holders of corporate Girovend electronic cash cards to transfer money into their pensions. 04-Jun-2001
IFG Group is to acquire Fair Isle Investments, the Fareham-based corporate pensions company, for £3m. 30-May-2001