Verlingue has bought Cambridge-based employee benefits and financial planning firm EBCam as the first step on its ambition to double the size of its employee benefits business by 2028. The multinational firm...
Read moreCommitments to be less impatient with insurers, to gain more qualifications and ensure protection is included in every client conversation feature among advisers’ personal and business New Year resolutions for 2026. With...
Read moreCash plans are typically seen as good products for helping people to maintain their everyday health needs throughout the year. However, they can come into their own at specific times of life,...
Read moreHealth & Protection would like to wish all our readers a very Happy New Year. We hope you have a wonderful time celebrating with family and friends over the festive period. While...
Read moreFast pace change and developments have swept through the world of health and protection in 2025 in the UK and internationally. It was a year in which increases to employer’s national insurance...
Read moreThe year 2025 has been marked by robust demand for international private medical insurance (IPMI) and its associated benefits. It has also seen a continued drive towards more personalised digital solutions and...
Read moreThe general consensus is that 2025 has been a relatively positive, stable year for the protection sector. Providers have largely tinkered rather than introduce wholesale product overhauls as the sector awaits the...
Read moreCustomers are increasingly generating protection insurance enquiries using artificial intelligence (AI) services such as ChatGPT, but this is presenting serious issues for themselves and advisers by doing so. Cura Financial Services co-managing...
Read moreAdvisers generally support client-facing staff wearing Christmas jumpers, but the complexity of the debate reflects the importance of the sector's position. It was a close call, with some respondents thinking they spread...
Read moreProtection policy sales nudged up in the third quarter of the year, led by income protection (IP) and standalone critical illness (CI) product lines. Data from Gen Re showed 516,283 individual protection...
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