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...

Auxilium Partnership hires head of proposition

Auxilium Partnership has appointed Sarah Moore as its new head of proposition. Moore (pictured) will...

Paradigm Protect to offer simple protection panel

Paradigm Protect is simplifying its offering to advisers by offering just one panel instead of...

Vitality Essentials offers benefits to SME PMI clients

VitalityHealth has launched Vitality Essentials, which it claims broadens the reach of key preventative...

Individual protection market “could grow by an average 18%”

MetLife research has found that advisers think sales of individual protection could grow by...

LV= plans to end friendly society status

Mutual insurance, retirement and investment group LV= plans to convert to a company limited...

Protection and life sales down but equity release up at LV=

LV= has reported operating profit of £136 million for 2018, up £2m on the...

The Exeter doubles its funeral pledge

The Exeter has signed up to the Protection Distributor Group’s (PDG) Funeral Payment Pledge. This...

Fluent Money Group appoints group sales director

Fluent Money Group has announced the appointment of Chris Meadows as group sales director. Previously...

L&G encourages protection language rethink

Legal & General wants the insurance sector to reconsider the way it talks and...

MCI Club partners with Auxilium

MCI Club, part of the eKeeper Group, has appointed Auxilium Partnership as its protection...

PMS and Sesame report highest mortgage volumes in a decade

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has revealed that combined mortgage completions in 2018 through its...

New player aims to shake up protection distribution market

Auxilium Partnership has announced its intention to "shake up" the protection distribution market for...

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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