Later Life

Over 50s to benefit from latest house price moves

Over 50s finance provider SunLife says the fact that house prices have risen for...

LV= to monitor mass affluent consumers

LV= has launched a new monitor to track consumers’ attitudes to their finances and...

Advise Wise begins ‘Ask Jane’ legal month

Advise Wise has launched its ‘Ask Jane legal month’ from today (1 October), with...

Pure Retirement adds new features to website

Pure Retirement has made further changes to its website, offering product information, a new...

Legal & General Mortgage Club adds LiveMore Capital to panel

Later life lending provider LiveMore Capital has joined the panel of Legal & General...

Advisers want more resource to deal with vulnerability

Equity release lender more2life has published a report examining into adviser and consumer attitudes...

Royal London moves into equity release space

Royal London has teamed up with later life mortgage adviser, Responsible Life, to enter...

The Right Mortgage expands team

The Right Mortgage has expand its team with several recent appointments to support the...

Jon Tweed joins Air Group as a consultant

Air Group has recruited industry veteran, Jon Tweed, as a consultant to develop its...

Young people could be nudged to a better retirement

A new Scottish Widows study has stated that almost two million younger people could have...

Key Partnerships introduces new retirement funding tool

Equity release referral service, Key Partnerships, has launch its new Retirement Funding Tool, which it...

Retirement market changing due to fragmentation

Canada Life has highlighted two 'retirement journeys' that are increasing dramatically among consumers and...

LiveMore moves into house purchase market

LiveMore Capital has extended Retirement Interest Only (RIO) product range to include purchase mortgage...

Historic lows for equity release rates

The Equity Release Council has reported that average rates for equity release products reached...
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Technology

If AI gives us more time to think, we must learn how to think well

The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...

The right scrutiny is a precursor of growing lending safely

Credit markets have always had to accommodate change, but there are periods when the assumptions on which they have been built begin to move...

Only one in five of your clients thinks your fee was justified

You know the moment. 40 minutes in. Gone well. They like you, you like them, everyone's getting on. Then you have to say the fee. And...

I’m 49. My dad’s 73. Between us we’ve found the hole in later life lending

I turn 50 in December, and the marketing has already started. Funeral plans, over-50s life cover, “guaranteed acceptance” adverts wedged between the football highlights....

Buying scale was phase one. What happens next?

Mortgage distribution is in a race for scale. Capital wants market share. Consolidators want distribution. Networks want advisers. Good businesses are commanding serious valuations. If I...

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RICS: Housing market recovery falters as buyer demand weakens

The UK housing market lost momentum in September as rising interest rate expectations weighed...
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Cost pressures hold back demand for energy-efficient home upgrades

More than a third of Britons want to improve the energy efficiency of their...
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TPFG buys 25% stake in property and mortgage AI business Enteka

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has taken a 25% stake in Enteka AI as...
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Property professionals back homebuying reforms, CSS poll finds

More than three-quarters of property professionals believe proposed changes to the homebuying and selling...

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