Legal & General Retail, which looks after the savings, protection, mortgage and retirement needs of 12 million retail customers and workplace members, has restructured its executive team with a number of key appointments.
13 Oct 2022
These changes form part of an ambitious growth strategy to deliver better outcomes for customers, advisors, distribution partners and shareholders.
The changes include:
The establishment of Legal & General Retail earlier this year, with Bernie Hickman as its Chief Executive Officer, saw the provider’s retirement, savings, protection, mortgage services and Fintech businesses coming together, allowing the division to better serve its diverse range of retail customers, distribution partners, advisers, corporates and consumers.
Leveraging its expertise and resources, the Retail division aims to deliver unparalleled levels of customer experience and service, removing pain points so that interactions for customers and advisers are simple and straightforward. This will enable it to create better products, more choice, and drive fair value for money, particularly through the use of new technologies and its investment in innovative fintech businesses.
Bernie Hickman, Chief Executive Officer, Legal & General Retail (pictured above): “As the UK’s number one workplace savings, protection and retirement brand our strategy is focused on providing peace of mind and financial confidence for every generation, whatever the future holds. Legal & General has a strong heritage, having served customers for almost 200 years, and these changes set us up to accelerate the growth of our business, putting our customers front and centre, and ensuring we can continue to provide easy to understand products, that will help people find financial security for themselves and their families. With our talented new executive team in place, we can focus on making positive progress to reimagine how we help customers create brighter financial futures.”
Millie Hyde-Smith
Director of PR and Content
Legal & General Retail
Established in 1836, Legal & General is one of the UK's leading financial services groups and a major global investor, with over £1.2 trillion in total assets under management* of which a third is international. We also provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our leading retirement and protection solutions: we are a leading international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income. Through inclusive capitalism, we aim to build a better society by investing in long-term assets that benefit everyone.
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Legal & General Retail helps create brighter financial futures for all our customers. The division covers the savings, protection and retirement needs of our c.13 million retail policyholders and workplace members.
In 2022, we had total individual annuity sales of £954 million, and issued £632 million of Lifetime Mortgages and Retirement Interest Only Mortgages. Our Workplace pension platform served 4.9 million members, while our Protection businesses gave peace of mind to more than 6.3 million UK life insurance, 1.8 million group and 1.5 million US customers, taking in £3.1 billion of gross written premiums.
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