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The Exeter appoints new customer service director

Protection and health provider, the Exeter, has announced the appointment of Claire Hird as...

Source Insurance unveils new platform

Source Insurance has launched Source Go, its new platform. Re-designed with customers in mind, the...

Scottish Friendly appoints chief operating officer

Scottish Friendly has appointed Stephen Campbell as chief operating officer. Campbell (pictured) has over 25...

Access FS reveals first 2023 academy date

Access Financial Services has published details of its first academy of 2023. Last year, Access...

YuLife joins Paradigm Protect panel

Paradigm Protect has added group insurance specialist, YuLife, to its panel. YuLife provide a range...

British Friendly unveils fracture cover for income protection

British Friendly has announced the launch of its fracture cover, an optional benefit that can...

Pivotal Growth acquires RSC New Homes Limited and Group First

Pivotal Growth has acquired RSC New Homes and Group First, the holding company for...

Shepherds Friendly selects Nuffield Health for rehabilitation support

Shepherds Friendly is extending its partnership with Nuffield Health, with the latter to now...

Legal & General recruits chief medical officer

Legal & General Group Protection has announced the appointment of Dr Tarun Gupta to...

Quality of product is top insurance-buying priority

According to new figures from the Exeter, 99% of customers said that the quality...

White paper on cost-of-living challenge published for advisers

Guardian has published a white paper, On The Front Foot, designed to help advisers...

Guardian appointed as L&C preferred provider

Guardian has secured a place as one of L&C’s Preferred Critical Illness Providers. L&C's...

Advisers struggle with children’s CI option comparisons

CIExpert’s Adviser Watch has found that 31% of advisers struggle to understand the different...

MAB acquires majority shareholding in Auxilium

Mortgage Advice Bureau has acquired a 75% shareholding in the Auxilium Partnership, a specialist...

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What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

Advisers are missing a clear chance to help clients with survey advice

For years, advisers have often seen surveys as something outside their core work. Some did not know enough about them. Some were unsure how...

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MPs launch inquiry into OBR’s first 15 years

The Treasury Committee has launched an inquiry to reflect on the Office for Budget...

Atom backs investor’s move into commercial property with £3m warehouse loan

Atom bank has completed a £3 million commercial mortgage to support an established residential...

CHL Mortgages widens upper LTV range with new fixed-rate options

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its upper loan-to-value range with a series of...

Swansea Building Society expands West Wales leadership remit

Swansea Building Society has promoted Sioned Jones to area manager, West Wales, with effect...

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