Principles and Practices of Financial Management

What are the Principles and Practices of Financial Management?

From 30 April 2004 the Financial Services Authority (FSA) made it a requirement for all organisations offering With-profits plans – such as our regular savings plan – to produce a document called the Principles and Practices of Financial Management (PPFM). The PPFM must set out how we manage our With-profits business.

You can download and keep the latest copy of our PPFM document by clicking on the link below.

Principles and Practices of Financial Management

What does the PPFM cover?

The document can be split into two:

1. The Principles – how we run our business longer-term:

the overarching standards that we adopt in managing the Life Fund (where all With-profits plans are invested)
the business model we use to ensure that we meet our duties to our With-profits policyholders
how we respond to changes in the business and economic environment

2. The Practices - covering the shorter-term, but cover far more
detail:

how we manage the Life Fund
how we respond to changes in the business and economic environment in the shorter- term

The practices allow a knowledgeable observer to understand the key risks and rewards of taking out a With-profits plan with the Society - or keeping an existing one.

Compliance with the PPFM is monitored on an annual basis. The Managing Board’s report on compliance with the PPFM for 2009 is available to download below.

PPFM Compliance Report