Six-Steps is a free, unbiased financial planning resource dedicated to helping people make informed financial decisions for retirement. The first site was launched in UK in April 2007 by the former Group Chief Executive of Aviva plc, Richard Harvey. A similar site has been launched for the Indian customers by Bert Paterson, MD & CEO, Aviva India on January 8, 2008.

Aviva India is the first BU to launch Six-Steps site; further sites will follow for other countries.

Six-Steps is produced by Aviva, the world's fifth-largest insurance group and the biggest in the UK. Aviva is one of the leading providers of life and pensions products to Europe and has substantial businesses elsewhere around the world. Its businesses include Norwich Union and RAC in the UK, Hibernian in Ireland, Delta Lloyd in the Netherlands and Commercial Union Polska in Poland.

Research carried out for Aviva shows that people around the world want help to feel confident about taking decisions about their financial future. Six-Steps helps to meet this need by providing straightforward, unbiased, personal finances information. Aviva will not offer financial services on this website and users' privacy is assured.

‛Financial literacy is often the key to financial security.’

Read what Bert Paterson had to say about Six-Steps