Zurich has launched what it describes as the most comprehensive critical illness cover on the market with a new product that focuses on cancer, heart and neurological disorders. The new product follows...
A £21bn net surplus in insurance sales to the European Union means the UK should vote to remain within it, despite the impact of Brussels-based solvency and gender pricing rules says the...
Aviva is launching an in-depth ‘pre-review’ of auto-enrolment in advance of the Government’s own review in 2017 that will consider the impact of AE since launch and the prospects for retirement saving...
Older people with greater numeracy skills save more for retirement, plan better for long-term care and even have sex more often, according to research from International Longevity Centre UK (ILC-UK). The organisation...
Seven in 10 people who have accessed their pension since April 2015 have not shopped around for different products and risk ending up making a poor value or unsuitable selection as a...
A total of 97 per cent of protection claims were paid by the industry in 2015, although 7.5 per cent of critical illness and 7.3 per cent of income protection claims were...
Two non-approved persons who invested £24m in potentially unsuitable pension investments have been banned from working in the financial services industry by the FCA. Mark Kelly and Patrick Gray, neither of who...
Jennifer Gilchrist Proposition Lead - Design, Royal London When someone mentions whole of life plans, most people will think of a niche product that serves as an inheritance tax planning tool for...
Everyone agrees a pensions dashboard is a great idea. But what it should look like and how it should be built are where the arguments start. John Lappin investigates Despite our increasingly...
Bringing protection within the pensions dashboard would be good for both consumers and the industry, with technology acting as the crucial enabler for group risk providers to keep their members informed, says...
