Protection

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has appointed Toni Smith to the newly created role of distribution director to lead its adviser network Sesame, subject to Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approval. Smith (pictured) joins...

Maxis Global Benefits Network has promoted Nicola Fordham to chief solutions officer from chief underwriting officer. In her new role Fordham (pictured) will oversee the evolution and development of Maxis GBN’s offering...

Legal & General Group Protection is working with vocational rehabilitation specialist Ergocom to provide employees, where appropriate, with the support they need following a group income protection (GIP) claim, when they are...

Fintel, the parent company of SimplyBiz and Defacto, has seen profits fall 32.3% in the first half of the year. In the first six months of 2024 Fintel saw its profit after...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has criticised insurers for their handling of mental health claims on income protection (IP) products and appealed for them to improve several areas. The trade body said...

Developing micro-insurance products which could potentially be sold in 7-Eleven shops and improving financial literacy are the keys to growing protection insurance markets in Asia, according to experienced insurer CEO Angela Hunter....

This summer saw a change in government but many of the prevailing trends affecting the nations finances remain, including the ongoing cost of living crisis and a slow mortgage market. Due to...

Clive Cowdery, founder, chairman and CEO of life insurance group Resolution Life, is expected to step down from the CEO role in 2026, as the company appoints Moses Ojeisekhoba as president with...

Phoenix Group is discontinuing its sale of SunLife due to "uncertainty" in the protection market. In its half year 2024 results announcement, released this morning, the group describes SunLife, which provides financial...

Insurers may need to adapt their underwriting philosophies, risk appetite, and mortality assumptions in pricing and reserving to account for an ongoing increase in mortality rates in the UK and US since...