Equity Release

Retirees not valuing advice

Retirees may not take up the offer of guidance announced in the Budget, according...

Saga joins Equity Release Council

The Equity Release Council (The Council) has announced that Saga, the over-50s insurer and...

LV= updates equity release lending policy

LV= has launched an enhanced equity release lending policy document for advisers. The policy document...

New Product Ambassador for Later Life Academy

The Later Life Academy (LLA) has announced The National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD)...

Education still key for equity release sector

For many years the equity release sector has had to fight a number of...

Aegon introduces new retirement tool

A new report on the UK’s readiness for retirement by pensions and savings provider...

Pure Retirement offers new lifetime mortgage

Equity release provider Pure Retirement has unveiled its second new product, the ‘Pure Lump...

Bridgewater heads to Plymouth

Bridgewater Equity Release is to hold its next roundtable adviser workshop on 17 June...

LV= establishes new R&D team

LV= has created a dedicated research and development team to develop new products and...

SimplyBiz Mortgages goes back on the road

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced its next series of specialist masterclasses. The events will be...

Bournemouth next destination for Bridgewater

Bridgewater Equity Release is to hold its next free half-day Masterclass event in Bournemouth...

Major lack of readiness for retirement

Only 7% of the UK population is close to being ready for the retirement...

Huge scope for an increase in equity release business

The latest figures from the Equity Release Council reveal that the resurgence in the...

New member for the CML

Hodge Lifetime has become a member of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). The firm,...

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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