Group Risk

Cloud8 is hitting the recruitment trail after securing a third round of funding worth £1.25m from existing investor Mercia. The Bristol-based employee benefits platform provider raised its initial seed round in March...

Wealth advisers should be referring income protection (IP) business to dedicated protection specialists, according to Future Proof director Alex Cleanthi. Cleanthi (pictured) was taking part in a panel debate on the second...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) protection proposition director Andy Walton has revealed how failing to properly rearrange his income protection (IP) cover for a new job hit him hard when he fell seriously...

Firms need to ensure their Consumer Duty implementation plans due at the end of this month are well thought through and engage with the substance of the Duty, the regulator has said....

B&CE has joined group risk industry body Grid. The provider is most well known for its People's Pension scheme but also offers employee accident and life cover, injury insurance and occupational health...

The importance of getting to grips with the Consumer Duty may finally be hitting home ahead of the deadline for brokers to submit compliance strategies to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), according...

Jeremey Hunt, the latest chancellor of the exchequer, has announced plans to row back almost all of the tax measures announced by his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng in his mini Budget. In an...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has confirmed the National Insurance hike and introduction of the Health and Social Care Levy will not take place despite making a host of u-turns today undoing much of...

MetLife has agreed a strategic partnership with international funeral planning and concierge service firm Everest as it expands into the UK.  As part of an initial three-year exclusive arrangement, MetLife will offer...

More than a quarter of UK workers who are not covered by income protection (IP) would like to be, according to research from insurer LV=. The mutual's research of 4,000 adults across...