New business at insurance giant Aviva was up 18% in the three months to 31 March, reaching £191m, according to its latest results.
Fund managers are starting to buy back into UK-listed large-cap miners, seeing valuations as too good to refuse as wider sentiment on the sector hits a "decade low".
Aviva is to reduce its staff numbers by 2,000 over the next six months - a 6% reduction of its global workforce.
There was a weary air of predictability within hours and days of Margaret Thatcher's death about all the things she can be blamed for.
An increasing number of older people are starting to down-size their homes.
Ashcourt Rowan's new head of funds research has moved to counter dwindling bond market liquidity by adding funds with "more stable" asset bases to the group's buy list.