Later Life

Dynamo for Intermediaries expands panel

Dynamo for Intermediaries has added Hodge to its lender panel. Members of Dynamo for Intermediaries...

Sharp fall in Q2 equity release volumes

The Equity Release Council has revealed that £698m of property wealth was accessed by older homeowners...

Retirement finances of comfortable households less hit by Covid

LV= has studied how the finances of the UK’s households have been affected by...

Pepper (UK) to service new later life lender

Pepper (UK) Limited has been appointed by later life mortgage lender LiveMore Capital to...

Care funding squeeze turns spotlight on property

Over-55s are more concerned than ever about how they would meet the costs of...

Covid-19: quarter of over-50s’ retirement plans dented

18% of people aged 50 and over say that the Covid-19 pandemic has already...

Advise Wise appoints head of distribution

Advise Wise has announced the appointment of Craig Faulkiner as its head of distribution. Faulkiner...

MBE confirms October date for physical London event

Mortgage Business Expo has confirmed that it will return to London as planned, following...

Canada Life cuts Capital Select and Lifetime Options rates

Canada Life has made rate reductions to all its Capital Select Options of between...

Covid: short-term fall in borrowing by the over-55s expected

New research from more2life and Cebr has found that over-55s are expected to borrow £19bn...

Advise Wise unveils exclusive membership programme

Advise Wise has launched Advise Wise Plus, an exclusive membership for select later life...

More2life resumes application-to-offer service promise

More2life has announced the return of its 14 working day service promise which will...

2.35% MER equity release rate unveiled

Pure Retirement has made changes to the rates on its Sovereign products, resulting in...

London has £96bn of housing equity available for release

Canada Life has calculated that nearly 500 billion of equity available for release in...

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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