Protection

LV= unveils Parent and Child cover amid introduction of new IP features

LV= has introduced of a range of new features to its Income Protection (IP)...

VitalityLife tool helps advisers calculate healthier lifestyle benefits

VitalityLife has launched a new risk calculator designed to help advisers discuss serious illness...

Paradigm’s new CPD & Sales Academy to help with IDD requirements

Paradigm Mortgage Services has launched a new CPD & Sales Academy, with the aim...

L&G to hold 8th Annual Business Quality Awards

Legal & General has announced the launch of its eighth annual Business Quality Awards...

SME owners worry about employee protection gap

63% of SME bosses fear their staff face a benefits protection gap in comparison...

FCA closes life insurance investigation

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that its remaining investigations into firms following...

The Exeter takes ‘digital first’ approach with new PMI product

The Exeter has launched a new private health insurance policy called Health+ with a...

Productivity and sales up at New Leaf

Mortgage, protection and wealth network New Leaf Distribution has revealed that its recent 12-month’s...

SimplyBiz’s Advice Show returns

The Advice Show returns today (17 September) with industry specialists including Steve Webb, Ken...

Professional advice key driver in taking out business protection

84% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK have taken out a...

Protection could suffer with rising mortgage activity

An industry panel at today's FSE London have argued that protection sales and penetration...

L&G unveils online broker group protection platform

Legal & General has launched a new digital broker platform that delivers greater efficiency...

Consumer Panel wants better protection products

Protection products are too complicated and no longer meet the needs of a modern...

LV= unveils lost policy campaign

LV= has today launched a campaign to reconnect with people who had its policies...

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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