Protection

L&G beefs up business protection activity

Legal & General’s specialist business protection team saw 4,913 advisers during 2015, a rise...

Cirencester Friendly raises new business commission rates

Cirencester Friendly is to increase new business introductory commission rates for certain individual income...

PTFS joins Fleet Mortgages panel

Fleet Mortgages has announced the addition of adviser network, Personal Touch Financial Services, to its...

New non-exec directors for Holloway Friendly

Income protection society Holloway Friendly has appointed two new non-executive directors (NEDs).   The appointments...

Pink Network to hold ‘kick off’ meetings

Pink Network is is to host a new series of roadshows across the UK in...

London and Country continues partnership with Winston’s Wish

Childhood bereavement charity Winston’s Wish has renewing its partnership for another year with mortgage...

Paradigm reveals lender and provider award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced the second yearly winners and runners-up from its Lender and Provider...

First Complete goes back out on the road

First Complete begins its series of countrywide roadshows today, with the aim to encourage brokers...

Paradigm adds Scottish Widows to protection panel

Paradigm Protect has announced the addition of Scottish Widows Protect to its protection panel. ...

Only 45% of male breadwinners have life insurance

26% of British breadwinners with dependents have no life insurance, according to new research...

Stonebridge raise over £15k for cancer charities

Stonebridge Group raised over £15,000 for two cancer charities, Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer...

LV= offers legal services facility

 LV= has launched LV= Legal Services; a new independent advice service in partnership with UK law...

UK insurers ready for new Solvency II capital rules

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has claimed the the UK industry is well...

L&G bolsters critical illness cover

Legal & General has made changes to its critical illness cover to incorporate the...

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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