Amanda Blanc

Charlotte speaks to Antoine Arnault later in the program.

And we'll hear exclusively from the Aviva CEO, Amanda Blanc, ahead of its wealth event today.

That conversation coming up right after this break.

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Navigating the UK personal wealth situation when you've got a government which is oscillating and clawing back money left, right and center, it's tricky, isn't it? So absolutely very interesting that Aviva is hosting its InFocus wealth investor event today.

Uh, in its half-year results, Aviva said the division was on track to deliver 280 million pounds in operating profit by next year, with an update on that target expected today.

Uh, Dame Amanda Blanc is the CEO of Aviva and joins us now.

Amanda, lovely to see you.

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Let's try and break them down in bits because I don't want to – it's easy with the policy stuff to skip past the pension side.

You were saying as we came up in the lift, you were listening to Amanda Blanc on the programme last week.

I'm sure if Amanda was here, she would say all her duty is is to make sure people who've got a pension with Aviva have the retirement that they're expecting and that they're hoping for and that if that involves retirement, buying S&P 500 tracker funds in the United States or buying bonds that are giving them 4% return or whatever, then that's her job.

Why should she be investing it anywhere else?