Later Life

Advisers urged to secure full health disclosure

Lifetime mortgage provider More 2 Life is calling on advisers to ensure that clients fully disclose...

PFS announces exclusive paraplanner events

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has revealed that its first series of dedicated paraplanning events is...

Equity Release Club teams up with the Marsden

The Equity Release Club has linked up with Marsden Building Society supporting new mortgage products...

Hornbuckle makes board appointment

Self-invested pension provider Hornbuckle has announced the appointment of Vincent Cambonie as the firm's...

Pensioners going without despite property wealth

32% of retirees now live on less than the minimum wage, yet 68% have...

Altmann defends multi-political party membership

Dr Ros Altmann, the Conservative government's pensions minister, has clarified her reasoning behind being a...

Pensions guidance causing people to seek further help

27.3% of people who have had a face to face Pension Wise appointment in...

FCA calls for equity release market debate

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has signalled that it wants a public debate over...

Call to scrap lending age limits

More 2 Life has claimed that older borrowers want to see age limits on...

The only game in town?

Anyone working within the equity release sector has always understood the strong underlying demand...

Tax on spending costs pensioners £29bn p.a.

Tax on spending takes an 18% bite out of the average retired households’ income...

Thousands have taken advantage of pension freedoms

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has revealed that nearly £2.5bn worth of payments...

Over-55s still in property purchase market

37% of homeowners over the age of 55 are planning at least one more property...

PTFS details ‘at retirement’ training programme

Personal Touch Financial Services has outlined its new training support programme for all advisers who wish...

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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