Later Life

Stonebridge agrees new partnership with Air

Air, the platform for later life lending professionals, has announced a new partnership with...

Standard Life appoints new head of retail intermediary distribution

Standard Life, part the Phoenix Group, has appointed Warren Bright to the newly created...

MorganAsh and Investor in Customers partner for Consumer Duty

MorganAsh and Investor in Customers have joined forces to provide firms with reports to...

Calls to reform state pension to prevent worsening poverty

Phoenix Insights, Phoenix Group’s longevity think tank, says reforms are required together with future...

Air partners with Comentis for vulnerability assessments

Air is to offer Air Academy members access to Comentis’s Financial Vulnerability Assessment tool. ...

Later life lending advisers’ vulnerability expertise on the rise

More2life’s bi-annual report into vulnerability suggests that advisers are becoming increasingly adept at spotting...

Pure Retirement hires new regional intermediary sales support

Pure Retirement has added new regional intermediary sales support to lifetime mortgage advisers as...

Pure Retirement joins finova lending panel

Lifetime mortgage provider Pure Retirement has joined finova Payment and Mortgage Services panel of...

Advise Wise adds Appointment Log feature for Consumer Duty

Advise Wise has announced the introduction of its new Appointment Log feature, allowing advisers...

MaPS CEO announces exit

The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) has announced that its CEO, Caroline Siarkiewicz, will...

Over 5m adults ‘haven’t got a clue’ about outstanding debts

67% of Britons admit to having debt that's weighing them down, according to the...

Transparency is vital to upholding equity release standards

The reasons why a client might want to take out an equity release product...

Canada Life unveils API link with Air Sourcing

Canada Life has announced the launch of an API link with Air, the platform...

Canada Life appoints managing director of retirement

Canada Life has appointed Tom Evans to the position of managing director of retirement. Evans...

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

Teachers for Intermediaries raises new-build LTV limit to 95%

Teachers for Intermediaries has increased its maximum LTV on new-build houses and flats to...

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...

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