The Herald (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Standard Life is losing the chief financial officer of its financial services business after Evelyn Bourke decided to follow her former boss Trevor Matthews to rival insurer Friends Provident.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Trevor Matthews, chief executive of Friends Provident, has brought in a colleague from his former employer Standard Life to be the new chief financial officer of the struggling insurance group
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... Life shares were up 2.6 per cent to 243.5p despite news that its former head of retail Trevor Matthews had lured SL financial controller Evelyn Bourke over to his new employer – insurance group Friends Provident.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
By Yvette Essen, Insurance CorrespondentLast Updated: 8:38AM GMT 07 Nov 2008Friends ProvidentMs Bourke is financial controller of rival Standard Life’s life and pensions business and has been with the Scottish insurer since April 2005. The 43-year-old worked with new chief executive, Trevor Matthews, when he headed up Standard Life’s UK retail business. Mr Matthews took the helm...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Sources said the 43-year-old worked with new chief executive, Trevor Matthews, when he headed up Standard Life’s UK retail business. Mr Matthews took the helm at Friends three months ago and his move to build up a trusted team will be seen as crucial to his plan to restructure the ailing FTSE 100 company.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
By Yvette Essen, Insurance Correspondent Last Updated: 7:19PM GMT 31 Oct 2008Friends ProvidentThe troubled life assurer, which put the assets on the block earlier this year as part of a restructuring of the company, confirmed it would retain Lombard, which serves high net worth individuals. It paid £394m for the business in 2004 and Friends' new chief executive Trevor Matthews said although...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... management business."We've got no plans to put the units up for sale again," Chief Executive Trevor Matthews told reporters on a conference call.The insurer said that total life and pensions sales dropped 14 percent to 701 million pounds ($1.14 billion) for the nine months to Sept.30 compared to the same period a year earlier, as core British sales slowed because of the economic downturn.While...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... should not only retain but also develop this unique business," Friends Provident Chief Executive Trevor Matthews said in a statement on Friday.Friends Provident also confirmed that it plans to hand its 52 percent stake in British asset manager F&C (FCAM.L: ) to its shareholders, with the distribution expected to complete by mid-2009.Friends put both Lombard and its F&C stake up for...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... should not only retain but also develop this unique business," Friends Provident chief executive Trevor Matthews said in a statement on Friday.Friends Provident also confirmed that it plans to distribute its 52 percent stake in asset manager F&C to its own shareholders, with the transfer expected to complete by mid-2009.Friends put both Lombard and its F&C stake up for sale in January...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
... and take time.Friends is looking to sell F&C and its high-end insurer Lombard but Chief Executive Trevor Matthews has said he will sell only if he can get a good price.
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... I think the biggest loss with the film is that the title character just isn’t that interesting. Trevor Matthews does fine acting-wise, but the story itself and the various subplots with his bitchy girlfriend, lousy therapist and dead end job are repetitive and seriously drag down the proceedings. The idea of a plumber with anger management issues who channels his rage by fighting...
