Protection

Paradigm launches three different event formats

Paradigm Mortgage Services has published its events timetable for the first five months of the...

Friends Life offers cancer-specific workplace benefit

Friends Life has unveiled what it is hailing as the first employer funded cancer-specific...

Exeter Family Friendly praises UnderwriteMe’s effectiveness

Exeter Family Friendly has seen immediate benefit after successfully integrating UnderwriteMe into its...

First Complete ‘kicks off’ its year

This week sees First Complete beginning its annual series of Kick Off meetings across...

Openwork hires distribution director

Openwork has appointed Dave Ewens to the position of distribution director. Ewens joins Openwork...

AIG completes Ageas Protect purchase

Ageas has completed the sale of its 100% shareholding in its UK Life Protection...

ABI updates critical illness best practice statement

The ABI has published an updated Statement of Best Practice to help people who...

New protection proposition from TenetLime

Tenet’s non-investment network, TenetLime, has seen near to a 40% increase in sales of...

SimplyBiz holds second Protection Awareness Week

The SimplyBiz Group is running a second Protection Awareness Week for 2014 in...

Exeter Family Friendly unveils entry-level PMI plan

Healthcare and protection insurer Exeter Family Friendly has launched a new private medical...

Personal Touch member advises protection campaign

Roger Crockford, principal of Financial Connections Wealth Management has been selected to provide financial...

Scottish Life adopts Royal London brand

Scottish Life has now adopted the brand of Royal London Group, the UK's largest...

New critical illness product from VitalityLife

VitalityLife, the new name for PruProtect, has unveiled a new life insurance product, LifestyleCare...

Cirencester Friendly appoints marketing head

Rebecca Young has been promoted by Cirencester Friendly to the role of head of...

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Tuning into later life lending conversations

There are certain conversations in our profession that can genuinely change the course of a client’s life. Later life lending sits firmly in that...

Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Right of Light risks: a looming shadow over construction projects

Gone are the days when a Right of Light infringement could be swiftly dealt with by simply taking out an indemnity insurance policy. Specialists used...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

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East Midlands newbuild prices fall as developers respond to weaker demand

The average asking price of newbuild homes coming to market in the East Midlands...

Principality adds final piece to BDM team with London & SE appointment

Principality Intermediaries has announced the appointment of Melissa Burke as business development manager for...

Arc & Co. secures £16.4m loan for Fareham premium care home development

Specialist debt and equity advisory firm Arc & Co. has completed a £16.4 million...

Former Wales and Lions rugby star joins Howden

Howden has appointed former Wales and British & Irish Lions rugby player Dafydd James...