Protection

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...

I cannot be alone in being a little surprised by the FCAs publication of MS24: Market Study into the Distribution of Pure Protection Products to Retail Consumers, following on so closely, from...

MetLife UK has appointed Claire Williams as strategic account manager. Williams' role follows a career break after her relocation to the UK from Canada where she worked at Canadian national insurance marketing...

Declining NHS performance over the last decade is disrupting UK workforce health and failing to effectively tackle the biggest causes of long-term sickness absence, according to Lord Ara Darzi. Lord Darzi highlighted...

The dire state of the NHS after more than a decade of neglect has been laid bare but the situation can be recovered and there remain strong vital signs within the service,...

Critical illness (CI) insurance and the protection industry are not living up to the full potential that was envisioned by CI founder Dr Marius Barnard, according to Johnny Timpson.  On stage with...