More than three in 10 Brits have failed make any provision to pay for their own funeral while the average cost of dying is now over £9,000, according to new research. Encouraginly...
Read moreThe protection sector is bracing itself for a year in which customers will be less inclined to take out cover when arranging their mortgage as cost of living and inflationary pressures persist....
Read moreMore than one in three employers suspect their employees have taken on a second job as cost of living pressures increase, according to a survey from Partners&. The intermediary's survey of 169...
Read moreMetLife paid 19,102 protection claims worth a total of £16.7m last year and has promised a pipeline of new products for 2023. The claims figure is up 15% from 2021 when 16,652...
Read moreMortgage and protection adviser Tembo has appointed Jenny Watts as board chairwoman. Watts (pictured) has acted as a strategic adviser to the tech-focused mortgage and protection intermediary since the summer of 2021....
Read moreThe Exeter has appointed former Legal & General General Insurance operations director Claire Hird as customer service director. Hird (pictured) joined the mutual this month and will oversee the underwriting, claims, and...
Read moreThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has emphasised that its Consumer Duty applies equally to services such as advice and distribution as it does to products. The regulator also highlighted that insurers cannot...
Read moreFirms' target markets are always likely to include vulnerable people so the Consumer Duty requires them to consider whether their products have features that risk harm to all customers - including those...
Read moreParents are more likely to be worried about money and the risk of being unable to work through serious illness or injury than those without dependents, but the vast majority have failed...
Read moreThe second half of 2022 had the highest mortality rate in twelve years, including the two previous years of the pandemic, according to analysis from the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) conducted by...
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