Income protection

ABI wants income protection ‘win-win’

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has called on the government to introduce a...

New protection offering from Mortgage Intelligence

The Mortgage Intelligence network has revamped its protection proposition. Available to both Appointed Representatives and Directly...

Paradigm awards lenders and providers

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

New non-exec director for Direct Life

Mark Myers, British Friendly’s outgoing CEO, has joined Direct Life as a non-exec director....

Cirencester Friendly reveals 2016 claims figures

Cirencester Friendly paid 94.7% of claims in 2016, an increase on 2015's figure of 94%.  The individual...

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...

New IP deals from the Exeter

The Exeter has launched a new range of income protection products. Pure Protection Plus and...

Redundancy gap for millennials

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

Female breadwinners lacking income protection

The growing importance of the female workforce has been highlighted in new research from...

“Rocketing” stress levels for teachers

252,209 school days were lost due to teacher stress in the last academic year...

iPipeline integrates with the Key

An integration between iPipeline’s SolutionBuilder and Mortgage Brain’s CRM system, the Key, means advisers...

Long-term work absences a “prevalent issue”

Almost one in five employees surveyed had a long-term absence from work in the...

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Why do people peddle untruths on social media? When I say this, I’m thinking specifically of my old mate Martin Stewart who can be...

Mansion tax plans resurface as Prime London prices slide

Thirteen years since the Liberal Democrats first proposed a Mansion Tax on properties over £2 million the Treasury is reportedly considering the same plan. Even...

Chris Williams on being the architect of connection

For most of the last decade Chris Williams has been dissecting the machinery of the UK property market and helping industry understand how it...

Collaboration, not quick fixes, must drive the next phase of reform

As we edge closer to the autumn Budget, the housing market finds itself in a familiar state of anticipation and uncertainty. Inflation remains stubbornly high,...

Goodbye Piccadilly; farewell Leicester Square!

It is indeed a long way to Tipperary, even longer if you take one of those dodgy rickshaws that proliferate the London’s West End....

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Landlord optimism rebounds as buy-to-let sector steadies ahead of Budget

Confidence among buy-to-let landlords has more than doubled over the past year, according to...

Nationwide expands interest-only lending to first-time buyers

Nationwide Building Society has introduced a major expansion of its interest-only mortgage range, including...

Santander trims home mover mortgage rates

Santander is cutting rates across its residential fixed mortgage range for home movers and...

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