Protection

MOVERS & SHAKERS

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has declared 13 insurance brokers in default, paving the way for clients to claim compensation.

NFU Mutual is to launch a basic platform to give advisers and direct clients access to external fund groups for the first time.

Symponia is calling for life offices who sold pre-funded long-term care plans to help families of policyholders track down forgotten or unknown policies.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

The Professional Adviser ‘Personality of the Year' award is going to be hotly contested this year between no less than seven nominations.

The ABI has called for a national awareness campaign on the public's right to social care once the Care and Support Bill is published in the spring.

Financial advisers will be ‘centre stage' in the future long-term care system, according to the minister for care and support.

Pembrokeshire-based 1 Stop Financial Services has cancelled its permissions to carry on regulated activities and closed to new business.

The Money Advice Service (MAS) has been much-maligned since its launch in April 2011, but consumers are making use of it in the way it was designed - to get free, impartial guidance on their finances. Here we break down the topics consumers go to the...