Metlife Joins Ever Growing Panel of IFA Promotion Sponsors
IFA Promotion (IFAP), the organisation promoting the benefits of independent financial advice, today announces that financial services provider MetLife is the latest addition to its sponsor panel.
MetLife will be the 29th sponsor of IFA Promotion, lending its support to the independent financial advice sector and IFAP’s consumer-facing brand, Unbiased.co.uk.
MetLife is an affiliate of US-based MetLife, Inc. a leading global insurance and financial services organisation which counts the U.S.’s largest life insurer among its subsidiaries. The organisation is renowned for its stability, financial strength and security, and had over $558.6 billion (around 283 billion) of total assets at 31st December 2007.
MetLife, Inc., through its affiliates, serves approximately 70 million customers in the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe. The MetLife companies offer life insurance, annuities, automobile and home insurance, retail banking and other financial services to individuals, as well as group insurance, reinsurance and retirement and savings products and services to corporations and other institutions.
Dominic Grinstead, Strategic Development and Marketing Director at MetLife commented, “We are delighted to lend our support to IFA Promotion and their ongoing work to promote the benefits of independent financial advice to the consumer. Our business proposition focuses on the IFA market and places great emphasis on continually improving our products and services with the IFAs’ best interest in mind.”
David Elms, Chief Executive of IFA Promotion said, “IFA Promotion continues to work hard to promote the independent financial advice sector to consumers and we believe that we offer great knowledge and insight to our sponsors. We are looking forward to working with MetLife and we welcome them on board of our ever growing sponsor base.”
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For further information please contact:
David Elms | Anna Schirmer/Jonathon Grove |
Chief Executive | Lansons Communications |
Unbiased.co.uk | 020 7294 3682 |
020 7833 3131 |
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Claire Oldstein |
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Head of Marketing Communications |
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MetLife |
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+44 (0) 207 715 2300 |
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1. Independent Financial Adviser Promotion
Unbiased.co.uk is the consumer brand of IFA Promotion, the organisation established in 1989 to promote the value and accessibility of independent financial advice to the public. It represents around 9,000 firms of independent financial advisers across the UK, incorporating over 17,000 registered individuals. These individuals hold over 22,000 incremental qualifications which are each individually verified by the awarding body. IFA Promotion welcomes the prominent display of incremental qualifications and further developments into the credentials of independent financial advice.
IFA Promotion is sponsored by 29 leading financial institutions, and in the past 12 months, over 575,000 consumers and businesses used unbiased.co.uk to find local independent financial advice.
IFA Promotion believes Independent financial advice should be:
- Affordable. The option to take independent financial advice should be available, by right, to all- not just the wealthiest in society.
- Convenient. IFAs should be available in the location of the consumer’s choice, wherever they live in the UK.
- Transparent. It must be clearly transparent to consumers who is able to offer independent financial advice and who is not.
2. Independent Financial Adviser Promotion’s sponsors
Abbey for Intermediaries
Lutine Assurance Services
Aberdeen Asset Management
MetLife
AEGON Scottish Equitable Plc
National Savings & Investments
Alliance Trust
New Star Investment Funds
AXA Life
Norwich Union Life
Bright Grey
Prudential
Canada Life Ltd
Scottish Life
The Children’s Mutual
Scottish Life International
Clerical Medical Investment
Scottish Widows Plc
Defaqto
Skandia UK Group
Friends Provident
Standard Life Assurance Company
The Hartford
Tomorrow
Invesco Perpetual
Unum
Legal & General
Zurich Intermediary Group
Lincoln Financial Group
Registered Office: IFA Promotion Ltd, 90 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5UB. Registered in Scotland: No. 114606
About MetLife Europe Limited
MetLife is the trading name of MetLife Europe Limited, an affiliate of the global financial organisation MetLife, Inc. MetLife Europe Limited is an Irish company authorised by the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority and regulated by the Financial Services Authority for the conduct of its UK insurance business. MetLife Europe Limited operates under the MetLife brand name, and has the ability to do business in any of the EU member states. In the UK, MetLife Europe Limited works solely with Financial Advisers to help deliver retirement and long-term savings solutions. Services are delivered from MetLife Europe Limited’s head office in Ireland, and from UK offices in London and Salisbury. For more information about MetLife Europe Limited, please visit the company’s website at www.metlife.co.uk