Adviser / Broking

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) has welcomed the FSA's decision to restart its funding review of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).

Defaqto and other ratings agencies have been attacked for "driving the wrong behaviour" by encouraging product complexity and being "in danger of misleading consumers".

Three insurance industry recruitment specialists have joined forces to open a specialist insurance personnel consultancy, CPB Partners.

LV= has extended its offering on Assureweb to include its full range of services.

Cirencester friendly has said IFAs should not be held solely responsible for ensuring the working population is properly protected, but warned the FSA is watching them.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has proposed extending VAT to nearly all spending - including financial services - following its wide-ranging review into the UK's tax system.

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) has relaunched its website and asked members to update their details.

Not only will the needs of each and every client who needs a protection policy differ, but advisers also have to factor in the different underwriting processes of providers...

Canada Life has produced a free calculator allowing over 20 calculations.

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) and the Institute of Insurance Brokers (IIB) have called for regulatory barriers to be lowered and for the current inappropriate style and intensity of regulation to be reformed.