Protection

Scottish Widows actively markets its direct sales services to advisers' existing clients, IFAonline has learned.

Legal & General (L&G) says more than half of protection applications are now placed on risk immediately thanks to its new online tracking tool.

Clive Cowdery's investment vehicle Resolution is setting its sights on the insurance sector for its first acquisition, armed with a £6bn war chest.

I can usually take reality TV or leave it. I have long since tired of the parade of egotistical idiots imprisoned in the Big Brother House, or the Z list celebrities camping out in the jungle and subsisting on live insects and foul-smelling vegetables....

Peter Le Beau, co-author of the Protection Review and founder of the Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has been awarded an MBE for services to insurance and to charity in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

Buying protection is a price decision, right? There's been more research recently to confirm this ingrained view in the industry from Aegon.

There may be a 'home' for protection in the RDR's controversial 'sales advice' category, an influential market report suggests.

A good friend and industry colleague recently noted very few things still surprise him these days in financial services.

Only one in 20 advisers considers supermarkets serious competitors in the individual protection space, despite their growing presence.

The FSA is concerned about the way insurers are treating customers who bought mortgage protection products, it has been revealed.