Protection

Standard Life agreed to sell the only stake it held in an IFA business because it wanted to put "clear blue water" between itself and independent advice models, distribution director Stephen Ingledew says.

The NHS in Scotland could charge patients for services if plans recommended by an influential adviser to the Scottish Parliament finance committee are implemented.

Various types of exclusions are found in life and health insurance policies. James Shattock explains why they exist and that discounts for underwriting exclusions are now here to stay

With change in the air for the NHS, Ian Talbot discusses the importance of absolute clarity when advising clients on private healthcare

Paul Robertson talks to Gen Re's head of marketing

David Houghton-Brown discusses the universal lessons and pitfalls learnt from Medicals Direct's foray into European markets

With the Government publicly looking to significantly cut welfare benefits spending, is it compliant with regulation for advisers to be raising clients' awareness of this and using it as a tool to increase protection sales, bearing in mind that the widows...

Andy Couchman rounds up the main themes impacting IPMI

An opportunity to realise the value of group income protection and get some significant market growth?

Friends Provident has launched an absence tracking system to help employers tackle the £16.8bn cost of absence.