Individual Protection

Paul Brencher, managing director of individual protection at Aviva UK, has been appointed as the new chair of the Association of British Insurers’ Protection Board. Brencher (pictured), who succeeds outgoing chair Dominic Grinstead...

Aviva has introduced a number of changes designed to help to speed up the onboarding of protection customers, following a review of its non-medical limits. From this month, its protection products -...

UnderwriteMe has announced that Paul Hughes has joined as head of Asia-Pacific, a new role created within the business to lead the technology specialist’s teams in Asia and Australia across all functions....

GRiD, the trade body for the group risk and protection industry, has urged  employers to do encourage their staff to make use of their existing employee benefits in the run up to...

Tenet Group, the UK financial adviser network and support group, is to make UnderwriteMe’s Protection Platform available to its members. The partnership means that Tenet, and the firms it works with, will...

Aviva has appointed Adam Winslow as CEO of International. This is a new role at Aviva and Winslow will join the Group Executive Committee, reporting to Amanda Blanc. Winslow will join Aviva...

There has been a massive surge in the number of people looking for solutions to self-manage and improve their health as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, research shows. Research carried out...

More than 300 attendees have signed up to a “protection academy” event being hosted by inancial adviser network SimplyBiz Group this month. The half-day event, set to take place on 11 December,...

Connect for Intermediaries, the financial adviser network, has added Umbrella Protect to its protection panel. Umbrella Protect will provide protection advice to all clients referred by Connect advisers and its network members....

Households borrowed an additional £4.3bn secured on their homes in October, following borrowing of £4.9bn in September, official figures show. The Bank of England (BoE) figures follow high levels of mortgage approvals...