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Paradigm Protect has signed a referral agreement with Howden Group intermediary Assured Futures. The partnership will see Paradigm member firms able to refer clients to Assured Futures for a range of protection...

Discussing group income protection (GIP) with clients can open up additional business opportunities to arrange individual protection policies with staff, according to Pangea Life. The adviser also highlighted the importance of GIP...

Cloud8 is hitting the recruitment trail after securing a third round of funding worth £1.25m from existing investor Mercia. The Bristol-based employee benefits platform provider raised its initial seed round in March...

LV= is planning to join the Association of Financial Mutuals as part of its ongoing commitment to maintaining its mutual status. The issue has been a key one for the insurer in...

Incorporate Benefits, DAM Employee Benefits and Intelligent PMI have joined the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII). Employee benefits provider Incorporate Benefits is a joint venture company between Kerr Henderson and...

Wealth advisers should be referring income protection (IP) business to dedicated protection specialists, according to Future Proof director Alex Cleanthi. Cleanthi (pictured) was taking part in a panel debate on the second...

HCA Healthcare is unifying the way it collects data from patients to monitor consultant performance, track post-procedure progress and deliver better outcomes. Cliff Bucknall, chief medical officer at HCA Healthcare, (pictured) explained...

Advisers should ask customers about the risks associated with them not being able to meet mortgage payments, rather than reeling off the benefits of income protection cover to them. The panel on...

Mark Steward is stepping down as the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) executive director of enforcement and market oversight after seven years with the regulator. Steward joined the FCA in 2015 and will...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) protection proposition director Andy Walton has revealed how failing to properly rearrange his income protection (IP) cover for a new job hit him hard when he fell seriously...