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Gerard Tyrrell, Pensions Technical Support Assistant at Zurich, examines the impact of temporary layoffs and redundancies in the context of occupational pension schemes.

The first quarter of 2020 saw extreme asset price volatility across all asset classes. The effect of this extreme volatility has seen a change in risk ratings for a number of funds across the Zurich range, including some of the Prisma multi-asset funds.

Equities saw choppy trading last week before finishing the week lower as a number of key officials tempered optimism, writes Ian Slattery.

Ensuring customers are able to maintain their protection in place is more important now than ever. Zurich’s Reinstatement Clause has been a valuable benefit on Protection products for as long as we can remember for more information, see below.

Zurich is proud to support Senior Times magazine’s podcast series where broadcasting legend Mike Murphy interviews prominent Irish figures. In the second episode, Mike talks to businessman Denis O'Brien.

A mixed week for equities and the stark economic reality of the virus continued to be evident in GDP growth, while US-China tension were apparent. Ian Slattery reports.

As active investment managers, Zurich Investments take advantage of opportunities by utilising a disciplined and flexible approach, ready to react to shorter term fluctuations.In this latest podcast, David Warren and Ian Slattery discuss active investment in times of market volatility.

 

Today, we attach editable versions of our most used claim forms.
Equities were choppy last week, as the first negative oil price in history unsettled investors early in the week, writes Ian Slattery.
Our Working from home webinar series continues next Thursday. Next up on our list is Pensions.

From next Tuesday, 21 April, we are making a change to our underwriting approach for Protection business. Find out more information in here.

Equity markets moved higher once again last week, despite a slew of negative economic data releases, writes Ian Slattery.