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Phoenix Group Holdings PLC

  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
    Phoenix in talks to raise more than £1bn to bolster its pensions buyout business

    FTSE 100 group confirms it has held discussions with potential partners over pension-risk transfer unit fundraising

    The City of London skyline with modern skyscrapers, the HMS Belfast on the river Thames and people walking along the riverside.
  • Monday, 8 September, 2025
    Fund management
    Aberdeen suffers blow as Phoenix Group pulls £20bn of funds

    Move comes as chief executive Jason Windsor seeks to revive asset manager after years of outflows

    A woman walks past the entrance of Aberdeen Group headquarters at 1 George Street, Edinburgh.
  • Monday, 18 August, 2025
    Phoenix debt deal kicks off Australian expansion drive

    Worley swoop signals start of Asia-Pacific push for UK’s biggest savings and retirements group

    Visitors by Sydney harbour overlooking the city’s skyline
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Phoenix plots rebirth as Standard Life

    Rebrand of UK pensions provider would bring historic name back to London Stock Exchange

    A phone displaying the Phoenix logo is held in front of a computer screen showing Phoenix’s website
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Investments
    Directors’ Deals: Phoenix executive reduces stake

    Insurer pushes ahead with transformation programme

    Headshot of Tom Ground, chief executive of Phoenix’s retirement solutions business
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Equities
    Stockpickers: Phoenix offers a juicy yield well supported by cash streams

    The UK long-term savings and retirement business has built up a closed book of life insurance policies

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Financial services
    Phoenix and Schroders team up for private markets venture

    Companies link up to create investment manager designed to channel more pension money into private businesses

    Schroders’ office building in London
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Phoenix takes stake in Hambro Perks in push to invest pensions in private companies

    The UK government is encouraging more retirement savings into higher-growth areas

    A person holds a smartphone with a Hambro Perks logo on it in front of a computer screen
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    UK insurance industry
    UK insurer Phoenix hails boost to retirement sector from high inflation

    Chief executive says UK economic environment is ‘accelerating our growth’

    The city of London skyline
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    How my AI friend ‘Pearl’ helps me manage my diabetes

    Artificial intelligence is being harnessed to improve the medical care of seniors

    A woman looks in the mirror at her tubed insulin pump clipped to her waist
  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    Investments
    Investors’ Chronicle: Phoenix Group, Ferrexpo, Direct Line

    Companies analysis from our sister publication

    A man rubbing neck in pain from whiplash injury after a traffic accident
  • Monday, 15 August, 2022
    UK life insurer Phoenix boosted by corporate pension deals

    Rising rates have buoyed the market for groups to take on assets and liabilities of company schemes

    Cyclists cross Tower Bridge in front of skyscrapers in the City of London
  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    UK insurance industry
    Phoenix urges solvency reforms to unleash £50bn for UK economy

    FTSE 100 life insurer calls for regulatory and policy changes to drive recovery

  • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
    Phoenix chief expects Covid-19 to speed up insurance M&A

    Insurers could look to offload large books of legacy life products

  • Thursday, 7 May, 2020
    Financials
    StanChart and HSBC face losses on loans to rice trader

    Phoenix Commodities seeks debt restructuring after racking up $450m of currency hedge losses

    Sacks of rice in Udon Thani, Thailand in 2014
  • Friday, 6 December, 2019
    Phoenix Group to buy rival ReAssure from Swiss Re

    Proposed £3.2bn cash-and-shares deal comes months after Swiss insurer pulled UK unit’s IPO

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    Andy Briggs to replace Clive Bannister as Phoenix chief

    Specialist life insurer hires industry veteran who formerly led Friends Life and Aviva UK

    Andy Briggs from Aviva
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2019
    Personal Finance
    Standard Life fined £30m for mis-selling annuities

    FCA criticises insurer for some telephone sales practices between 2008 and 2016

    FILE PHOTO: A worker walks inside the Standard Life House in Edinburgh, Scotland February 27, 2014. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne/File Photo
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2019
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Debenhams needs debt deal while there are customers left to save

    Negative sentiments are creating a vicious circle that chain must rush to break

    A sign stands above the entrance to a Debenhams Plc department store on Oxford Street in central London, U.K., on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Struggling U.K. department-store chain Debenhams, which issued three profit warnings last year, is planning for a company voluntary arrangement that could take place in the next few weeks, the Financial Times reported, citing three people familiar with the plans. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2019
    Insurer Phoenix raises key targets from Standard Life Aberdeen deal

    Group says it will deliver higher capital benefits and slash costs more than expected

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jane Mingay/REX/Shutterstock (4914163b) Clive Bannister Clive Bannister, Chief Executive of Phoenix Group, London, Britain - 04 Apr 2014
  • Thursday, 23 August, 2018
    Insurance
    Phoenix expects to beat cash generation target

    Insurer generates £349m in first half as it prepares to close deal for Standard Life

    Clive Bannister, chief executive: 'The Standard Life Assurance acquisition is a stepping stone on our consolidation journey, but it isn’t the final destination.'
  • Friday, 8 June, 2018
    Insurance
    MPs demand tough penalties for financial IT blunders

    Tech failures at TSB, Visa, Aviva and Phoenix Wealth anger customers

  • Sunday, 4 March, 2018
    News in-depthInsurance
    Phoenix poised to rise after watershed acquisition

    Standard Life Aberdeen insurance unit will open up opportunities across Europe

    Clive Bannister, chief executive of Phoenix, has been behind much of the restructuring process
  • Monday, 26 February, 2018
    Insurance
    SLA reins in pay for chiefs Martin Gilbert and Keith Skeoch

    Remuneration clampdown at asset manager comes amid intense scrutiny over big bonuses

  • Saturday, 24 February, 2018
    News in-depthInsurance
    Standard Life Aberdeen seals shift into asset management

    SLA’s sale of insurance business to Phoenix brings an end to 200 years of history

    The Standard Life building on Lothian Road in Edinburgh as the firm has served notice that it could move some of its operations out of Scotland if the country votes for independence.
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