Protection

Advisers will need to complete a minimum of 35 hours of relevant CPD each year, according to the FSA's latest Retail Distribution Review paper.

The FSA says it needs more time to consider the costs and benefits of introducing professional requirements for advisers selling pure protection.

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The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has highlighted examples of bad protection advice from complaints referred to it during the recession.

Standard Life has stressed it will continue to have a "huge focus" on advisers following a restructure.

Aegon's proposed departure has put the UK protection market in a precarious position

Axa have re-affirmed their commitment to the private healthcare market and its Bluefin adviser group after selling its Life business to Resolution for £2.75bn.

Resolution has bought Axa's UK protection business as part of a deal for the whole of its Life organisation worth £2.75bn.

The integration of Friends Provident with Axa Life will lead to the launch of a "best of breed" protection proposition in 2011, Friends interim managing director Nathan Moss says.

Chancellor George Osbourne has announced insurance premium tax (IPT) will rise.