Protection

Friends Life revamps group critical illness offering

Friends Life has made improvements to its group critical illness proposition. Changes include enhanced...

Scottish Provident unveils new whole of life protection product

Scottish Provident has launched a new simplified whole of life product that solely offers...

Gender neutral pricing now at L&G

Legal & General has moved to gender neutral pricing. This means all individual protection products...

Openwork app now available for Android

Openwork has launched a new version of its protection app enabling advisers to obtain...

PruProtect appoints underwriting director

Darren Lee is joining PruProtect as director of underwriting and claims. He joins the protection...

LV= outlines gender directive policy

LV= has published details as to how it will deal with amendments to protection...

2013 to be “one hell of a year” for insurance sector

Protection experts have warned that growth in protection sales is flat despite the increasing...

Huge FSA fine for CPP

The FSA has issued its joint largest retail fine of £10.5 million to Card...

Worrying confusion between IP and PPI

79% of advisers surveyed by Cirencester Friendly believe that their clients confuse income protection...

RBS posts loss and increases PPI provision

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has posted a pre-tax loss of £1.26 billion for...

LV= enhances IP offering for medics

LV= has improved the benefits for surgeons and doctors on its income protection (IP)...

Aviva outlines gender directive pipeline plans

Aviva has published the path advisers need to follow to ensure protection pipeline cases...

Scottish Provident replaces Pegasus cover product

Scottish Provident is replacing its current unit linked Pegasus product with a new simpler...

LV= introduces IP discount

LV= is offering a 5% discount on all income protection applications until 30 November...

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Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

Navigating HMO and MUFB complexity with confidence

Historically, larger Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFBs) have often been avoided due to their complex layouts, individual planning requirements,...

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Housing market stalls as demand dips and sales slide

The UK housing market’s fragile recovery faltered in July as higher borrowing costs and...

Premier League stadium area with highest house price premium revealed

Burnley’s Turf Moor has emerged as the Premier League’s most lucrative stadium location in...

Kuflink launches in-house legal department to speed up deals

Bridging lender Kuflink has launched its own in-house legal department, in what it describes...

Children wield growing influence over UK home buying decisions

Children are exerting unprecedented sway over property choices with 74% of families saying their...