Later Life

Gender pension gap narrows

Scottish Widows’ latest Women and Retirement Report has found that the gender pension gap...

Air Group provides equity release service level reporting

Air Group has introduced its first equity release provider ‘Temperature Check’ focusing on a...

85% of self-employed don’t save into a private pension

Multiple job holders face substantial barriers to saving, leading to a private pension pot...

Hodge study aims to understands family finance complexity

Hodge has written a white paper to help intermediaries understand intergenerational finances to mark...

Scottish Widows to divest £440m over ESG standards

Scottish Widows is to divest at least £440 million from companies that have failed...

The changing nature of making Christmas plans

‘The family can come to us next year – it’s our turn’. Or ‘We’ll...

Knowledge Bank: people desperate to get on the property ladder

Knowledge Bank has revealed the details of the leading criteria searches made on its...

The Newcastle selects Key Group for referrals

Key Group has agreed a referral partnership with Newcastle Building Society. The building society...

Air Group launches on-demand adviser event

Later life specialist, Air Group, has launched ‘On Air’, an on-demand event for advisers...

PRS growing in importance for older tenants

A new report from Paragon has found that retiree renters and those in upper-middle...

2020 retirees supporting families with £3,700 a year

New research from later life lending adviser Key has found that 34% of those...

SimplyBiz Mortgages appoints equity release referral partner

SimplyBiz Mortgages is expanding on its relationship with Key Partnerships, which sees the later...

Pure Retirement introduces new repayment calculators

Pure Retirement has launched new equity release repayment calculators as part of a range...

Large fall in numbers expecting to work beyond state pension age

Canada Life has reported that the number of workers expecting to work beyond state...

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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