Life cover

Financial costs of childhood cancer calculated

New research sponsored by Guardian and conducted by cancer charity, Young Lives vs Cancer,...

Royal London paid out £631m for protection claims in 2023

Mutual insurer, Royal London, paid out on average over £52m a month on protection...

Legal & General pays out record retail protection claims for 2022

Legal & General paid out an average of over £2.4m retail protection claims a...

Iress and Reassured agree partnership

Iress has announced that life insurance broker, Reassured, has selected The Exchange platform to...

Scottish Friendly posts record sales

Scottish Friendly has reported record sales of £47.7m for 2022. Total sales increased from £46.9m...

Royal London appoints head of strategic partnerships

Royal London has appointed Ronnie Binnie as head of strategic partnerships. Binnie (pictured) joins...

Inflation threatening over-50s’ life insurance policies

Rising inflation is putting pressure on over-50s life insurance customers to carry on paying...

Scottish Friendly partners with the Unisure Group

Scottish Friendly and the Unisure Group have announced a new partnership agreement. The agreement confirms...

Royal London extends online trusts to personal menu plans

Mutual insurer Royal London has made further improvements to its digital services by extending...

Zurich joins CIExpert’s Insight Zone

CIExpert has announced that Zurich has become the latest insurer to join its Insight...

National Friendly joins Paradigm Protect panel

Paradigm Protect, the directly authorised protection proposition, has added friendly society, National Friendly, to...

Vulnerability data could help resolve life cover challenges

A recent report by Swiss Re - Life Cover Payouts – under the microscope...

£42bn facilitated through 360 Lifecycle in 2022

Adviser CRM platform, 360 Lifecycle, has revealed that it facilitated over £7 billion in...

Just Mortgages sounds protection warning

Just Mortgages has warned there is a risk of a shortfall in protection cover...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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