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The ABI's reforms of Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) definitions on critical illness (CI) policies have not been well received by advisers.

Sun Life Financial of Canada's decision to only provide products to existing customers means only MetLife and Aegon remain active in the variable annuity market. What do you think the prospects are for the variable annuity market in the UK and how will...

In the latest Interactive Financial Adviser debate, our panelists from LV= and Threadneedle discussed European Equities.

Are you afraid that when the RDR arrives the public will perceive advisers as charging fees for all products and so not consider coming to you for protection advice?

My client is 42 and runs a consultancy in the oil industry. As a result he has to travel extensively, including contracts in dangerous and high disease risk countries such as Algeria, Sudan and Nigeria. He has already arranged international private medical...

Each month we ask leading industry figures to answer one big question... What do you think the SIPP industry's New Year's resolution should be and why?

In the latest Interactive Financial Adviser debate, our panelists from Blackrock, Standard & Poor's, Threadneedle and Rathbones discussed the current Economic Outlook

In the latest Interactive Financial Adviser debate, our panelists from Investec, Standard & Poor's and Morgan Stanley discussed Structured Products.

Given the potential growth of hybrid health and protection policies, the Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries (AMII) has said it is open to expanding its remit to the protection market (although it has no plans to do so at present). Would this...

My clients are a newly married couple aged 33 and 29. They both value their personal private medical insurance (PMI) plans but are concerned that rising premiums mean they may have to surrender them. What options are available that could persuade them...