Later Life

Hodge appoints new chief finance officer

Hodge has announced the appointment of Jan Preece as its chief financial officer. Preece (pictured)...

Here’s to the next 20 years of equity release

More than £32.6 billion of property wealth was released via 557,000 plans over the...

Pure Retirement introduces new mobile app

Pure Retirement has refreshed its mobile app for equity release advisers, designed to improve...

Retirement can be taxing

Many headlines concentrate on the gross return various investments yield. Yet when income is...

Air Group takes H1 temperature check

Air Group has published its third half-year equity release provider ‘Temperature Check’ report, examining a...

New high for UK available housing equity

Nearly £730 billion of equity was available for release in homes in the Uk...

Canada Life offers new repayment options

Canada Life has introduced a new product range, Lifestyle Select Options. These new options will...

Pension gender gap widens to over £180k

New analysis from Cebr and equity release lender, more2life, suggests that when life expectancy...

Ban and fine for pension transfer adviser

The Financial Conduct Authority has published a Decision Notice against Geoffrey Edward Armin of...

We need to focus on holistic advice

When you read a headline which says, ‘Six out of 10 homeowners aged over...

Half of over 50s don’t want an official retirement age

48% of people over the age of 50 think retirement should happen when you’re...

Advisers optimistic about equity release market

Equity release lender, more2life, has found that 94% of advisers are confident about the outlook for...

Key Group appoints corporate business development manager

Key Group has appointed Jonathan Valentine as corporate business development manager to develop new...

Santander extends later life partnership with L&G

Legal & General Home Finance has announced the extension of its five-year partnership with...

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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