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The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI), Protection Distributors Group (PDG) and Income Protection Taskforce (IPTF) have launched a new version of their adviser guide to saving protection policy sales, acknowledging the difficult...

SimplyBiz has partnered with group risk provider YuLife. YuLife work with SimplyBiz to deliver relevant messages on market trends, product development, evolving technology in the protection space and delivering good outcomes for...

The mental health of staff is the top concern among health and wellbeing for employers, according to research from Towergate Health & Protection. The firm's survey of 500 HR decision makers in...

Insurance broker Reassured has launched a digital platform enabling customers to directly purchase life insurance online, with critical illness products planned to follow. Reassured is primarily a non-advised broker and six insurers...

Legal & General Group Protection has agreed a partnership with long-term condition management support service ConnectPlus, from Health and Care Innovations (HCI). Available to all insured employees and their immediate family, the...

Lead generation firm CleverKeith has been reprimanded for an advert which appeared to depict life insurance as a moneymaking scheme and for implying it was an advice firm which could get consumers...

More than three quarters of Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) staff have backed industrial action at the regulator. This is the second time FCA workers have backed strike action this year. While February's...

Compliance consultant Branko Bjelobaba has raised concerns about difficulties health and protection insurance intermediaries face in budgeting for the Financial Compensation Schemes Levy (FSCS) following the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launching its...

The strain of balancing work with caring for children and elderly relatives is adversely affecting the mental health of more than a third of workers with such responsibilities, research has found. Notably,...

Howden has acquired mortgage advice firm SPF Private Clients. The purchase solidifies a "long-established trading relationship" between the firms. The international insurance broker said the deal extended its reach into the mortgage...