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Conti continues to sign up brokers

Conti has reported that it has been signing up an average of 70 mortgage...

Olympic opportunities

Can you capitalise on London 2012, asks Hugh Wade-Jones, director of Enness Private Clients With...

Glass houses…

The industry should not seek speed over reliability, warns Paul Hunt, managing director of...

Aegon wants trail commission safeguarded post-RDR

Aegon is urging the FSA to let trail commission continue post-RDR. In its response to...

Fall in number of secured loan borrowers

There were £28 million worth of secured loans completed in November, a 12% increase...

AFI to improve buy-to-let proposition

Abbey for Intermediaries (AFI) is to add four new products and make rate cuts...

Growing expectation in property wealth funding retirement

42% of those aged 45-plus paying off mortgages regard their property equity as part...

Intermediaries positive about BTL business

53% of intermediaries questioned by Paragon Mortgages expect to do more buy-to-let mortgage business...

HML appoints sales director

HML has appointed Richard Hennah as sales director. Hennah joins the financial outsourcer after...

New 5-year deal from the Hinckley & Rugby

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched a new five-year fixed mortgage at 3.95%. The...

Berkeley Alexander unveils service for non-standard deals

Wholesale insurance intermediary Berkeley Alexander has launched its new 'Struggle Service' for advisers. The Struggle...

Which? reveals large variations in IFA fees

Consumer group Which? says it has found huge variations in IFA fees across the...

Significant improvement in housing affordability

Mortgage payments for a new borrower in the second half of 2011 were at...

LV= enhances underwriting rules for protection

LV= is making changes to its underwriting rules which, it claims, will result 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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