Protection

Gary Shaughnessy, head of Fidelity's retail business, is leaving the firm to become chief executive of Zurich's UK life business.

Resolution is preparing a "self-managed" exit from Friends Life in 2014 that would see the company split between a fit for purpose life company and a closed life fund consolidator.

Aviva's director of distribution development, Dean Lamble, has left the company after just over a year in the position.

Towergate Financial has acquired the financial planning business of the Melton Mowbray Building Society.

Comparison sites are failing to provide consumers with the best deal and should be strictly regulated, Which? has said.

ODD CASE

From December, life insurance policies will become the same for men and women. 
Rachel Dalton finds out what IFAs need to do to prepare for the change.

As the industry prepares for the Government White Paper on social reform Sue Elliott looks at how the debate has developed post- Dilnot.

BUDGET 2012

Collegiate Underwriting has announced a professional indemnity insurance (PII) deal for IFAs, which freezes rates for two years.