Individual Protection

Employee benefits consultancy and financial advice firm Mattioli Woods has bought a Buckinghamshire-based independent financial adviser in a deal worth up to £1.8m. The purchase of Richings Financial Management is for an...

US life insurance and financial services firm OneAmerica has promoted Kelley Gay (pictured) to chief marketing officer (CMO). Gay, who has worked in various leadership capacities for more than a decade at...

The protection sector's great hope for gold at this year's Paralympics is back out on court training after one of the Team GB wheelchair tennis squad tested positive for Covid. Mortgage and...

Social skills outrank technical knowledge and computer literacy as the most important competency requirement for new entrants to the insurance sector. This is according to a social media poll of of 800...

Royal London is launching a £1.5m programme working with 10 social enterprises aimed at building financial resilience. The launch follows research from the mutual insurer which reveals a dramatic rise in the...

An employment lawyer has warned health and protection advisers not to dismiss the concerns of employees complaining about excessive work demands and the risk of burnout. The warning follows a case involving...

Cirencester Friendly has appointed Andy Lucas to its management board as a non-executive director. Lucas (pictured) has previously held senior roles at Prudential and ACE Insurance Group. His most recent executive appointment...

The board of Iress is recommending shareholders back EQT Fund Management's latest bid for the Australia-based financial software firm. Late last month, Health & Protection reported that Iress was in talks over...

A mortgage and protection advice firm plans to appeal after an employment tribunal awarded more than £23,000 to an adviser for being fired after she claimed her 48 hour or more working...

US life insurer The Assurity Life Insurance Company has named Susan Keisler-Munro as successor to Thomas Henning as president and CEO. Keisler-Munro takes on the role from 1 January 2022, with Henning...