Equity Release

LLA strikes will-writing deal

The Later Life Academy (LLA), the commercial and training organisation for later life advisers,...

Paradigm announces award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services has revealed the yearly winners of its Lender and Provider Awards. ...

KR Group hires COO

KR Group, which trades as Key Retirement, has announced the appointment of Michael Schaefer...

29% year-on-year growth for equity release market

The total value of equity release lending reached £1.38bn in 2014, according to the...

Key Retirement to offer retirement options proposition

In February Key Retirement will introduce a new Retirement Options service. This follows a...

The message advisers need to take into battle

The phrase ‘second line of defence’ has been used a lot lately, particularly in...

Bridgewater supports upcoming Equity Release Club events

Bridgewater Equity Release will be in attendance at the forthcoming Equity Release Club training and development...

Pensioners increasingly using unsecured credit

The latest Pensioner Debt Index from the Equity Release Council shows unsecured debt among...

Realities of state pension survival not clear to all

Only 12% of over-40s surveyed by Opinionmatters for Partnership said that they would survive...

New equity release road shows for 2015

The Equity Release Club is to hold a series of training and development road...

Tenet to expand its master class programme

Attendances at Tenet’s 2014 training & development events have risen by over 30% following...

Brokers should offer a more holistic retirement advice service

It would appear that Chancellor George Osborne has spent the last couple of years...

FCA publishes annuities sale findings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the findings of its thematic review into...

Major improvement in over-55’s finances

Britain’s over-55s have seen their income jump by 21%, and their total savings typically...

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...

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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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