Income protection

Paradigm reveals 2019 lender and provider award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm Protect, the mortgage services and protection propositions, have announced...

Cirencester Friendly expands executive team

Cirencester Friendly has made two appointments to support its growing presence in the income...

L&G reveals group protection stats for 2018

Legal & General paid a total of £292m in Group Protection claims in 2018. The...

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network partners with Best Insurance

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has embarked upon a partnership with Best Insurance,...

Multi benefit protection growth for HLPartnership

HL Partnership has reported a rise in the take up of multi benefit protection...

Royal London makes income protection more flexible

Royal London has introduced a new five year payment option to its income protection. The...

Income protection payouts up at the Exeter

The Exeter has published its income protection (IP) claims statistics for 2018, showing that...

The Exeter provides HealthWise app to all members

Health and protection insurance provider, the Exeter, has announced that all members can now...

Advisers worried about under-protection for the self-employed

MetLife research indicates that the rise of self-employment is helping drive sales of individual...

Millennials not sold on benefits of income protection

74% of IFAs surveyed by Royal London think younger consumers are not addressing their...

PRIMIS adds Holloway Friendly to protection panel

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has added income protection specialist Holloway Friendly to its protection panel. The...

Protection is still undervalued

New Legal & General research has found the value of protection continues to be low. 52%...

MetLife in protection partnership with iPipeline

MetLife has announced a strategic partnership with iPipeline to grow the distribution of its...

Cirencester Friendly paid 95.2% of claims last year

Cirencester Friendly paid 95.2% of income protection claims in 2018, an increase on last...
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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...
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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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