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Scottish Widows produces annual protection summaries

Scottish Widows Protect has introduced its first annual protection summaries to help advisers build ongoing...

The Exeter appoints non-executive director

Health and protection insurer, The Exeter, has appointed Helen McEwan as a non-executive director. McEwan...

Scottish Widows announces fund refresh

Scottish Widows has made a number of changes to its fund range as part of its ‘Driving...

SunLife acquisition completed

Specialist over-50s insurer SunLife has completed its sale from AXA to become part of...

Prudential hires UK insurance CEO

Prudential UK & Europe has announced the appointment of Clare Bousfield as CEO for insurance,...

Zurich reveals GI and life claims data

Zurich has revealed that over £1 billion was paid out in claims during the...

Aegon UK appoints CFO

Aegon UK has appointed Stephen McGee as its chief financial officer (CFO). He has held...

Research highlights mental health impacts of burglary

Over one million people who have been burgled in the UK felt so unsafe...

Home insurance market “increasingly competitive”

The average quoted premium for a typical combined home buildings and contents policy has...

Advisers expect worsening protection gap

72% of IFAs believe there is a growing threat of people not having enough...

Young people more at risk of burglary

18% of young people aged between 25-34 say that they have had their home...

Redundancy gap for millennials

Millennials could be hit with a bill of around £5,000 on being made redundant,...

Management buy-out at Direct Life

Direct Life is being acquired by its managing director Rob Quayle and sales and marketing...

Cost of small business disruption calculated

Over 550,000 small businesses in the UK have been forced to halt trading due to...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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