Protection

Cirencester Friendly hires interim director of distribution and sales

Cirencester Friendly has made another key appointment to its senior management team. Andy Peters has...

Royal London introduces ABI mental health standards

Royal London has launched a new focus on mental health in its pre and...

Legal & General Group Protection unveils Be Well helpline

Legal & General Group Protection has launched the Be Well helpline as part of...

When it comes to managing debt, Income Protection can make all the difference

Last year, the average UK resident had approximately £6,757 in financial savings, a concerning...

HLPartnership appoints in-house protection guru

HLPartnership has announced the appointment of Steve Fallon as its in-house protection expert to...

LV= pays out £309k for claim lasting 35 years

LV= has revealed that it paid out over £309,000 for a single income protection...

National Friendly adds full income protection policy

National Friendly has launched a full income protection policy, adding to its recently launched...

Direct Life appoints chief commercial officer

Direct Life has announced the appointment of Iain Clark as chief commercial officer. He will...

The Exeter appoints head of strategic partnerships

Health and protection insurer, The Exeter, has announced the appointment of Jamie Page as...

The Exeter simplifies life cover

The Exeter has announced a simplification of its life insurance cover, with its Real...

Principality BS partners with protection specialist 

The Principality Building Society has partnered with protection specialists Vita to provide their clients...

Covid has not caused a spike in protection demand

The Covid-19 pandemic has not led into a rise of requests for protection, despite...

Iress adds Features enhancement to income protection

Iress has introduced an improvement to its quote and apply software The Exchange, enabling...

Aviva offers digital protection dashboard for advisers

Aviva has joined CIExpert's newly-launched Insight Zone. This offers a digital dashboard to streamline an adviser’s protection...

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...

Latest news

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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