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Don’t let PPI scare you off selling insurance

Given the integral role that protection now plays in the average mortgage broker’s proposition...

PruProtect offers new protection client email tool

PruProtect has unveiled a free personalised email campaign service for intermediaries. The Connect tool, which...

Paymentshield makes senior appointment

Paymentshield has appointed Lee Gladwell as interim proposition director. Gladwell, who will...

Buy-to-let insurance service unveiled

BusinessInsuranceLine.co.uk, a new insurance quotes helpline and website, has been launched for buy-to-let property...

Younger generation shun protection

25% of 25-40 year olds say their attitude is to 'live for the day'...

Berkeley Alexander hails ‘Struggle Service’ success

Berkeley Alexander now has 13 individual insurers and in excess of 50 individual products...

Personal touch appoints senior GI manager

Personal Touch has appointed Victoria Jefferies to the position of senior GI manager. Jefferies has...

L&G extends GI deal with the Newcastle

Legal & General's general insurance business has secured a five-year extension to the existing...

The Source added to HomeLoan Partnership’s GI panel

Source Insurance has been appointed as a preferred supplier to the HomeLoan Partnership network...

Scottish Provident paid out 93% of 2012 CI claims

Scottish Provident paid out over £94 million to critical illness policyholders during 2012.  93%...

Pink launches AR life desk

Pink Network has unveiled a Life Desk facility to help appointed representatives (ARs) place...

Lloyds TSB posts another loss

Lloyds TSB has reported a statutory loss of £570 million for 2012. It said this...

Connect Mortgage Club teams up with Source Insurance

Source Insurance has been appointed as a preferred supplier to Connect Mortgage Club for...

Openwork launches Life Calc protection app

Openwork has unveiled its new Apple app which allows advisers to assess their clients’...

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...

Latest news

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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