Critical Illness

Minority report mental health condition to insurer

The pandemic has seen 47% of UK adults experience mental health challenges as people faced financial hardship,...

Covid has not caused a spike in protection demand

The Covid-19 pandemic has not led into a rise of requests for protection, despite...

Royal London improves CI cover for parents

Royal London has made changes to its critical illness cover (CIC) to help improve...

AIG Life moves to simplify Group CI

AIG Life has consolidated its Group Critical Illness conditions under grouped headings with the aim...

Royal London removes Covid-19 underwriting restrictions

Royal London has removed restrictions to its underwriting approach put in place in 2020...

Record protection payouts for Royal London in 2020

Mutual insurer Royal London paid 99.6% of all protection claims last year, totalling a...

Widespread lack of mortgage protection highlighted

26% of existing or aspiring homeowners have missed a mortgage payment because of accident or...

LV= reveals Covid-19 payouts

LV= has revealed that life insurance, critical illness and income protection claims caused by...

LV= paid out £6.5m in Covid claims last year

LV= paid record individual protection claims totalling nearly £118 million during 2020. The insurer...

Royal London introduces new protection menu tool

Royal London has unveiled a protection tool which helps provide menu protection plans for...

WorkLife and Unum in protection partnership

Employee benefits portal, WorkLife, has joined forces with group insurance provider Unum to add a...

L&G unveils digital-first group protection proposition

Legal & General Insurance has partnered with Salary Finance to launch Protect; a mobile-first,...

Owl Financial reaps rewards from online face-to-face advice

Owl Financial, Openwork’s specialist protection advice business, has arranged over 47,000 policies since the...

Connect expands protection panel

Connect for Intermediaries has added Umbrella Protect to its protection panel. Umbrella Protect will provide...
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COMMENT

Comment

How brokers can secure better client outcomes in a volatile market

Experience has always counted in the mortgage market. Brokers who worked through the financial crisis, the Covid pandemic, the Liz Truss mini-Budget and cost-of-living...

Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

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Appointments

LSL Financial Services appoints interim managing director

LSL Financial Services has appointed Piotr Nowosad as interim managing director to lead its...
News

Mortgage demand slows in second quarter as higher rates hit affordability

Higher borrowing costs weighed on mortgage demand during the second quarter, although Stonebridge says...
Cover

Omni Protect becomes first service provider to adopt Beagle Street intermediary proposition

Omni Protect has become the first service provider for directly authorised firms to offer...
Technology

Dudley BS rolls out new mortgage platform to all brokers

Dudley Building Society has completed the rollout of its new mortgage origination platform to...

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