Later Life

More 2 Life cuts fees

More 2 Life has reduced its arrangement fees following adviser and customer feedback. Customer and adviser...

Rise in downsizing enquiries to release equity

Bower Retirement Services has claimed that around one in five clients have looked into downsizing their house...

Max Wright becomes PTFS chairman

Former CEO of Personal Touch Financial Services, Max Wright, has now now taken on his new...

Pension freedoms may have sharpened retirement planning

Around 631,000 people in the country plan to use all or part of their...

New corporate pensions reporting service unveiled

Scottish Widows has launched a corporate pension reporting service for employers. The Scottish Widows Corporate...

Over-50s using shares to boost retirement income

One in three over-50s have bought shares in a company to help fund their...

MBE London announces seminar line-up

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced the series of seminars it will be holding...

Zopa hails the ‘silver pound’

Zopa, which has just become the UK’s first peer-to-peer lender to pass £1 billion...

Investment income just 6% of retired household income

MetLife analysis of ONS data on household income shows that benefits make up nearly...

L&G hires retirement market chief

Legal & General has appointed Andy Humphreys as its marketing director for individual retirement....

“Clear and growing demand” to access home property wealth

41% of homeowners approaching retirement are now banking on their property wealth as part...

L&G doubles its lifetime mortgage target

Legal & General has doubled its target for lifetime mortgages and now expect to...

16-24 year-olds in a dream world over pensions

Latest research from Aegon UK suggests young adults are the most unrealistic about their...

Review into financial advice access unveiled

A new review looking at how financial advice could work better for consumers has...

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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