Protection

Jon Cudby gives the lowdown on the all-new IFAonline

Incorporating life cover with Personal Accounts would cut an estimated £2.3trn protection gap by 20% in one fell swoop, Friends Provident CEO Trevor Matthews says.

There were almost three times as many new income protection (IP) plans launched in the last 12 months than there were new critical illness (CI) products.

Aegon is set to drop the famous Scottish Equitable name as part of a strategic re-brand.

Summer is upon us and many people are making plans for the holidays. It's also the start of the wedding season, and a number of people in my team are planning to tie the knot this summer.

Scottish Widows actively markets its direct sales services to advisers' existing clients, IFAonline has learned.

Legal & General (L&G) says more than half of protection applications are now placed on risk immediately thanks to its new online tracking tool.

Clive Cowdery's investment vehicle Resolution is setting its sights on the insurance sector for its first acquisition, armed with a £6bn war chest.

I can usually take reality TV or leave it. I have long since tired of the parade of egotistical idiots imprisoned in the Big Brother House, or the Z list celebrities camping out in the jungle and subsisting on live insects and foul-smelling vegetables....

Peter Le Beau, co-author of the Protection Review and founder of the Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has been awarded an MBE for services to insurance and to charity in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.