INSURER Friends Life said total regular premiums lifted four per cent to £1.3 billion in the first nine months of the year boosted by sales of UK corporate benefit and protection policies. The group, formed in 2011 as a combination of Friends Provident added its retirement income fell 12 per cent in the same period due to pension reforms announced in the March Budget.
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