Later Life

Record equity release lending figures

The total value of equity release lending grew by 26% year-on-year to a new...

Spending declines by half between early and later retirement

Latest analysis of income and average expenditure statistics by Aegon has found that spending...

Scottish Widows announces fund refresh

Scottish Widows has made a number of changes to its fund range as part of its ‘Driving...

Savers increasingly tempted by non-guaranteed options

31% of retirement savers would consider transferring their guaranteed final salary pension benefits into cash...

Openwork reaches £8bn in lending

Openwork has reported over £8bn in mortgage completions up to the end of the...

‘Retirement reality check’ for younger workers

UK workers plan to give up work before they turn 62. However, they could...

Royal London backs cold-calling ban

A petition calling for a ban on cold-calling to sell pensions and investments has...

Prudential offers full service access via British Sign Language

Prudential has become the first UK retirement product provider to introduce a web-based video...

‘Tug of war’ over family finances

SunLife’s latest Cash Happy report has found that parents and children are banking on financial...

New retirement solution from the Family BS

The Family Building Society is offering what it says is a new solution for older...

Key Retirement appoints deputy CEO

Key Retirement Group has promoted Simon Thompson to the newly-created position of deputy CEO. Thompson...

Saga lobbies Hammond over downsizing

Saga has written to the Chancellor proposing a range of reforms designed to free...

Personal Touch expands ‘at retirement’ proposition

Personal Touch has launched Dynamic Planner’s ‘Living in Retirement’ module. Completing the module will allow...

Bower launches equity release training academy

Bower Retirement has unveiled an equity release training academy to support new recruits as it...

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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