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More than a third of firms (34%) are finding evidencing outcomes for vulnerable customers as required by the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Consumer Duty board reporting requirements to be "extremely challenging". This...

Not taking out income protection (IP) is like going into a betting shop and wagering that you will not be sick for the next 50 years. This is according to Gary Waters,...

The NHS may be broken, but people will not need to raid their savings to go private and will not face having to pay charges, according to health secretary Wes Streeting who...

Mark Waters has left his role at Mercer to take on a new role as head of professional excellence at Howden Health and Benefits.  In this new role, Waters (pictured) will work...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) believes the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) pending pure protection market study will trigger a wave of consolidation which it intends to take advantage of. The intermediary expects the...

Advisers should be passionate about income protection to properly engage customers. But they should also resist talking down to customers and bamboozling them with jargon or seeing the benefit as purely a...

Bluezone which has specialised in life cover for people with type 2 diabetes, is expanding to other conditions while it rebrands to a new name.  The insurer is rebranding to Blueberry Life...

The Labour government review of the Conservatives’ New Hospital Programme will present a "full range of options" for the project, despite it previously committing to honouring the scheme. In total, the feasibility...

Consumer Duty rules require advisers to recognise not just vulnerable customers, but potential circumstances that could put clients in a vulnerable position such as a divorce or inheriting a large sum of...

A lack of job security and increased knowledge gained from social media is behind ever growing numbers of younger people buying income protection (IP). But advisers would do well to ensure these...