Individual Protection

Access Financial Services (Access FS) has today launched an in-house digital marketing and lead generation platform for its team of mortgage and protection advisers.  Following its acquisition of Crazy Nerds, a boutique...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a consultation setting new reporting requirements aimed at improving diversity and inclusion across the financial services sector. In particular the proposals focus on boosting diversity...

Aviva has acquired AIG Life UK from AIG subsidiary Corebridge Financial for £460m. AIG Life UK provides a full suite of individual and group protection products. It had 1.3 million individual protection...

MetLife UK has appointed Charlotte Lade as head of customer propositions. In her new role, Lade (pictured) will be responsible for driving innovation in proposition development to enhance the customer experience and...

Insurers need to up their game in providing better access to annual benefit statements and added value services. This is according to panellists assembled for the final day of the Income Protection...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) says it stands ready to help the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) better "understand and differentiate" regulation of protection sector commission after the regulator's warning to the market....

While delays in protection underwriting are commonplace now due to increased GP workloads created by the pandemic, such waits can be turned into a positive - and may even save a life....

YuLife has the launched Yuniversity, a series of in-app continuing professional development (CPD) courses for brokers. The courses, which have been awarded CPD accreditation by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), aim to...

Despite 42% of UK adults with protection products experiencing significant life changes, only 28% consulted their financial adviser to review their cover, according to LV= research. For the study, LV= surveyed 4,000...

Visual aids are "more impactful" than words when overcoming cost of living income protection objections, advisers have said. This is according to Gary Walters, director at The Protection Academy (pictured right), who...