Appointments / Industry

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co has acquired San Diego, California-based retail insurance broker Hartley Cylke Pacific Insurance Services for an undisclosed sum. The retail insurance broker's services include life insurance advice services....

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) CEO Nikhil Rathi has blamed the “caution” of firms for not providing “good and affordable” financial advice to enough customers. He also highlighted that there needs to be...

Axa Health is making its menopause service available to all members. The service, launched last year as an opt-in for corporate clients, has now been extended to all members, including individual customers...

It's not just high profile footballers choosing to leave for Saudi Arabia; international private medical insurance (IPMI) advisers too have noticed a large uptake of workers moving to the Kingdom. While IPMI...

Vitality has reported a 500% increase in the numbers of people claiming for talking therapies since 2015. The data for up to the end of 2022 reveals talking therapies accounted for 85%...

Santé Partners has launched an Academy of Excellence aimed at knowledge sharing between its appointed representatives and increasing their hours of continuing professional development (CPD) to meet Consumer Duty. This is according...

The number of appointed representative (AR) firms operating in the insurance sector has halved in the last decade, with a sharp drop in the last two years. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...

IPipeline has partnered with start-up and adviser technology business BrokerIQ to integrate PreQuo - its collection of indicative and predictive web services with BrokerIQ’s customer engagement platform in a bid to illustrate...

CIExpert has launched its own customiser tool in response to Zurich’s upgraded critical illness cover product range which offers a new level of personalisation for clients. The tool enables advisers to exploit...

The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) is renewing its industry agreement to signpost customers with medical conditions to specialists after it helped more than 30,000 consumers seek life and protection insurance. Since...