Later Life

Age Partnership buys web firm

Age Partnership has acquired website development and optimisation business The Marketing Lab. The acquisition sees...

Key Retirement appoints group CFO

Key Retirement Group has appointed Rob Scott as its new chief financial officer (CFO). He...

Retirement group outlines 2017 expansion plans

Answers in Retirement Ltd has announced the buy-back of 25% of the business which returns...

Pensioners will increasingly rely on housing equity

Price of homes in England have risen at twice the rate of pensioner households’ disposable...

Cost of living behind retirement savings failures

The cost of living is the most common single factor preventing people who live...

Milestone reached by Equity Release Council

The Equity Release Council has welcomed its 500th member this month. The news follows another...

Over-65 homeowners have property wealth of £1.031 trillion

Retired homeowners have gained an average of £26,000 tax-free this year from their houses,...

Hodge Lifetime joins MCI panel

Hodge Lifetime has become the latest lender to join MCI Mortgage Club’s panel. The lender...

“Ostrich mentality” prevalent over retirement planning

48% of consumers have been classed as having an “ostrich mentality” as they significantly...

More over-55s expect to take debt into retirement

More 2 Life has found that 40% of Britons over the age of 55 will still...

Michael Coogan joins Mortgages4Life board

New lender Mortgages4Life has appointed Michael Coogan as its independent chairman in anticipation of...

Couples keeping millions in secret savings

New research from Prudential has found that couples are keeping debts, savings, investments and...

Auto-enrolment ad banned

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against Smart Pension Ltd, of 20 Eastbourne Terrace,...

Pension freedoms “now come with a big catch”

Change to the “money purchase annual allowance” means people must be far more certain...

COMMENT

The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Latest news

Cambridge BS opens applications for deposit-building Rent to Home scheme

The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its Rent to Home property in...

Life changes could create new wave of accidental landlords

Changes in personal circumstances rather than investment plans could push more homeowners into the...

Remortgage searches jump 40% as borrowers return after summer

Remortgage activity drove a sharp rise in mortgage searches during September, with Twenty7tec recording...

Step One Finance adopts OMS origination platform

Step One Finance has introduced a bespoke loan origination system developed with One Mortgage...

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