equity release

Bower Retirement Services, an advice operation specialising in equity release, has bought IFA firm Sixty Plus.

Legal & General (L&G) is to buy equity release provider New Life Home Finance (Newlife) for £5m.

Andrea Rozario on the surge in demand for equity release and the opportunities for properly qualified advisers

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Pensioners in the UK are using equity release to boost their income by an average of £67,500, according to analysis carried out by over-55s financial provider Key Retirement.

Andrea Rozario, chairman of Bower Retirement Services and former director general of the Equity Release Council (ERC), has sounded a call to arms for advisers to get involved in the equity release sector.

Equity release is growing strongly and Bower Retirement Services is looking to recruit more advisers. Helen Morrissey talks to new chairperson Andrea Rozario about her new role and the outlook for equity release.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has ordered an equity release provider to repay a client the cost of a lifetime mortgage after it found the client had received bad advice.

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