lifesearch

Adviser early warning system among changes reviewed

Five key developments all advisers should know

Kevin Carr's verdicts on five key developments in the past month

SPACE INVADERS

David Child, the former managing director of The Exchange and 1st Software, has been appointed non-executive chairman at Finance & Technology Research Centre (F&TRC).

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has entered discussions with a number of stakeholders over the launch of a trade body for protection.

Tom Baigrie, the chief executive of protection broker LifeSearch, has hit out at product providers for pretending to "police" advisers' relationships with their customers, a practice he dubbed "institutional petty theft".

The key insurance developments this month

Charlotte Richards looks at the reasons why the protection market is struggling to grow and reveals how advisers can increase client uptake.

Lifesearch has applauded Legal & General's use of subject access requests (SARs) to obtain extra medical data and said it is seeing positive results for clients.