Protection

A compulsory charge will fund the new national social care system, the Government has announced.

Aviva is piloting a system which lets advisers sell customers 'top-up' protection after asking them just a single question.

New ABI director general Kerrie Kelly has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at this year's Protection Review conference.

The FSA has given advisers who sell individual long-term pure protection contracts under ICOBS until the end of the year to apply its rules on 'total premium' disclosure.

Insurers are likely to see more benign tumours than malignant, so, asks Anne Llewellyn, what are the underwriting ramifications?

PruProtect's second full year of operation saw it post new business figures of £13.5m (APE) up from £3.3m in 2008.

The FSA is open to the possibility of spreading adviser remuneration transparency across the board but doesn't believe it would be a popular move.

Reaction to the FSA's consultation paper CP10/8 on pure protection sales by retail investment firms has been positive.

Mortgage brokers could be dragged into the disclosure of adviser remuneration proposed by the FSA.

There is much of interest in the FSA releases today (26 march). The debate about fund manager rebates will get louder and continue for a couple of months. For those of us who are also interested in protection, the paper 10/8 (Pure protection sales by...