Protection

Ageas Protect in alliance with Winston’s Wish

Anyone with children who makes a call to claim, due to a death or...

Roger Edwards leaves Bright Grey/Scottish Provident

Roger Edwards, managing director of Bright Grey and Scottish Provident, is now on gardening...

Zurich improves Critical Illness cover

Zurich has made enhancements to its Critical Illness (CI) product, with improvements for patients...

Pink to hold protection masterclasses

Pink has begun a fortnight of protection 'masterclasses' for its ARs. The network...

Is apathy a broker’s greatest threat to business development?

Diversification has been something of a buzzword for mortgage brokers in recent times as...

Lloyds’ PPI “failure” compounds mistrust in banks

Citizens Advice has warned that consumers could be thousands of pounds out of pocket...

Ageas Protect appoints national sales and strategy manager

Ageas Protect has appointed Nick Erskine to the role of national sales and strategy...

Pair offering business protection to First Complete

PruProtect and Ageas have launched a business protection proposition for First Complete advisers to...

PruProtect unveils app for iPad-using advisers

PruProtect has launched a new iPad app for financial advisers. The app is aimed at...

Michael Vaughan to head up PruProtect Chance to Ride event

Former England cricket captain, Michael Vaughan, will lead a host of celebrity friends and...

UK workforce more financially exposed today

Employees of today are more likely to fall into financial difficulty than they were...

Bright Grey widens Relevant Life Plan access

Bright Grey has launched its Relevant Life Plan as a separate product. The...

LV= offers ‘unique’ critical illness benefits

LV= has improved its critical illness (CI) cover. The changes include increasing the number of...

Scottish Widows publishes IP claims data for first time

Scottish Widows paid out 98% of life and 88% of critical illness claims last...

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What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

Advisers are missing a clear chance to help clients with survey advice

For years, advisers have often seen surveys as something outside their core work. Some did not know enough about them. Some were unsure how...

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MPs launch inquiry into OBR’s first 15 years

The Treasury Committee has launched an inquiry to reflect on the Office for Budget...

Atom backs investor’s move into commercial property with £3m warehouse loan

Atom bank has completed a £3 million commercial mortgage to support an established residential...

CHL Mortgages widens upper LTV range with new fixed-rate options

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its upper loan-to-value range with a series of...

Swansea Building Society expands West Wales leadership remit

Swansea Building Society has promoted Sioned Jones to area manager, West Wales, with effect...

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