Principal firms must investigate the history of their appointed representatives (AR) including other principal firms they worked for and why their previous relationship came to an end. The requirements are being introduced...
Read moreThe Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) plans to implement a new approach to publishing consultant fee arrangements via its portal next year which will help the private medical insurance (PMI) sector. However...
Read moreIan Smart is retiring after 38 years in the insurance industry – the majority of which has been at the heart of the intermediated protection market. Smart left his position as product...
Read moreA former mortgage broker has been jailed and disqualified from being a director for a second time after committing mortgage and loan fraud. Cindy Brad from Melton Mowbray illegally obtained £200,000 from...
Read moreThe Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) failure to explicitly ban loaded premiums under its Consumer Duty means the pressure is on insurers and distributors to justify continuing the controversial practice, according to St...
Read moreThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed its Consumer Duty does not explicitly prohibit the controversial practice of loaded premiums where premium rates are inflated to pay distributors and advisers higher commission....
Read moreWomen In Protection research showed that one group of people worry about their health and finances more than another group of people. Yet that same group buy almost 50% less insurance that...
Read moreAviva is seeing group risk and private medical insurance (PMI) schemes being brought together as clients and advisers are seeking to get greater value from their premiums. The insurer told Health &...
Read moreThe combined impact of the pandemic and an intensifying war for talent has meant demand for group risk benefits from employers has never been so high. While advisers do not think mandatory...
Read moreHM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) need to take responsibility for solving the problem of the poorest people being locked out of insurance cover, Fair By Design has urged. The...
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