Appointments / Industry

Legal & General's group protection new business fell more than 10% driving a 3.5% drop in its overall protection sales for the first six months of 2025. The insurer’s retail protection sales...

Ascend Broking Group has launched Ascend Life, a protection division offering life and income protection solutions to individual and corporate clients. Led by Kristian Breeze (pictured), the division's services include life cover,...

HFMC Wealth has joined group risk industry body Grid. The firm is a multi-disciplined independent advisory practice, with a dedicated employee benefits division providing workplace pensions and employee benefit solutions, predominantly focused...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has added Robert Marshall to its self-employed network. Marshall (pictured) has spent the last two decades at Lloyds Bank where he was a mortgage and protection adviser. MAB...

WTW and Klarity are working together to help life insurers improve pricing accuracy by integrating wearable technology and data into their underwriting processes. Klarity has developed a risk scoring tool that produces...

HCML has appointed Jill Pritchard chief commercial officer. Pritchard (pictured) joins from Nuffield Health where she was hospitals commercial director. Prior to this she was a director at Vitality at Work. HCML...

Personal Finance Society (PFS) director Eddie Grant has succeeded Zurich head of market engagement Peter Hamilton as disability and access ambassador for insurance. Grant (pictured) is one of nine new disability and...

Heath Protection Solutions has hired Natalie Summerson as protection director, joining from insurer British Friendly. Summerson (pictured) will be responsible for supporting new business growth plans including communications and partnerships strategy as...

SM Advice has appointed Chris Miles as managing director as founder Setul Mehta is taking on a more strategic position. Miles (pictured) joins from The Openwork Partnership, where he has held a...

A third of UK workers do not use their workplace health benefits at all and when they do many find them hard to access, according to research from Simplyhealth. Its survey of...