IFAonlineTV: 'Government should promote equity release'

Speaking on the latest edition of IFAonline.tv - entitled the Great Homeowner Debate - Jan Holt, head of sales in the lifetime mortgages division at Prudential, says consumer confidence in equity release is growing after the introduction of mortgage regulation but she warns IFAs are still not proactively accepting it. She believes the industry faces an advice challenge over how to utilise an asset without selling it on. Ray Boulger, senior technical manager at Charcol, says the information on equity release is available for advisers but suggests they are concerned about whether the rewa...