Critical Illness

L&G protection payments up £64m

Legal & General paid out £606m to policyholders for critical illness, life, terminal illness and income...

Minority in the dark about bereavement or critical illness

One in five people don’t know where they would turn in the event of...

15% increase in Aegon UK life payments

Aegon UK paid out 98% of all life claims in 2016 to 663 families and...

Half a home’s value at risk from average care home stay

The typical person entering residential care will face total bills of between £50,000 and...

Women must look after their own protection needs

48% of working women in the UK don’t have any form of protection policy...

Scottish Widows’ protection cover now on LifeQuote

Scottish Widows has launched its flexible life insurance products, Scottish Widows Protect, on LifeQuote. Through...

Scottish Widows adapts critical illness policy wording

Scottish Widows has updated the critical illness definitions for Scottish Widows Protect, its intermediary...

Renters lack protection provision

Research from Scottish Widows indicates that while 30% of private renters admitting that they’d not...

Paradigm awards lenders and providers

Paradigm Mortgage Services has revealed the third-yearly winners and runners-up from its Lender and Provider...

Supporting extended families affecting squeezed middle

37% of women in the UK, aged between 25 and 44, have financially supported...

Scottish Widows to use electronic GP reports

Scottish Widows has introduced electronic General Practitioner (GP) reports into its protection policy underwriting...

Majority of women have no protection at all

For 28% women in the UK, the inability to support themselves or their families...

Advisers expect worsening protection gap

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

Protection importance highlighted in Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Nearly 60,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year, equivalent to one...
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COMMENT

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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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