The government has finally published its green paper on the future of social care. It proposes a new ‘National Care Service'.

At progress from Royal Liver, we recently launched a campaign encouraging IFAs to adopt a customer segmentation approach. It was based on a piece of research we did on our own database with some quite insightful results.

The FSA has extended its regulation to encompass those that perform a ‘significant influence' function at firms. In a policy statement the FSA said it would place greater emphasis on the role of senior management, including non-executive directors (NEDs)....

The government's Green Paper on reform of the care and support system may result in widespread sales of long term care insurance

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has signalled it intends the end of Total Permanent Disability (TPD).

Well we are deep in the heart of the summer months and, while the insurance industry is rather quiet in terms of providers and intermediaries, many official bodies have seen fit, perhaps cynically, to use the last month to release research results and...

As the sector takes on more risk Lee Lovett gives an insight into factors affecting the underwriting of group business.

Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance has escaped the harsh criticism of PPI yet the product is in any case evolving away from its roots, says Edward Murray

Whether individual or group, Wojciech Dochan and Linton Penman believe advisers can benefit from Income Protection's additional benefits and technology

The days of automatically providing top-of-the range international private medical insurance (IPMI) cover to expatriate employees are a thing of the past, says Debra Williams. In challenging times, how should advisers direct clients to best maximise value...