Later Life

FCA bans pair for “lack of integrity”

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned Mark Kelly and Patrick Gray from working...

Largeequityrelease.com joins PMS referral panel

Largeequityrelease.com has become a master broker on PMS's new specialist lending panel for equity...

LV= added to L&G Later Life panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added LV= to its direct to lender Later Life Lending...

Only 28% of retirees expect to leave an inheritance

The Prudential has reported that the proportion of new retirees who know they will...

Majority expect to work in retirement

An online poll by Retiresavvy.co.uk of over 2,000 Britons has found that 59% expect to...

AIR Sourcing goes live

AIR Sourcing, a new sourcing system for equity release and retirement lending products, has gone live with...

TenetLime expands mortgage panel

TenetLime has expanded its whole of market mortgage panel with the addition of four...

Cap on early pension exit charges proposed

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced the level at which it will consult...

OneFamily Lifetime Mortgages joins the Equity Release Council

The Equity Release Council has welcomed OneFamily Lifetime Mortgages to its membership. This follows the...

L&G acquires annuity portfolio for £3bn

Legal & General has acquired a £3bn annuity portfolio from Aegon. The transaction has been...

Sales up at OneFamily

OneFamily has reported its 2015 annual results. The business was created out of last year’s...

Call for easy mortgage to equity release transition

Lenders need to focus plans for equity release innovation on schemes enabling customers to...

More people choosing to phase their retirement

LV= has revealed that 87% of people working aged 65 and over are happy...

London equity release loans up 12%

Homeowners in London have released an average of almost £150,000 from their properties to...

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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