ABI

Subject access requests and online technology have opened the debate over GP reports. Ian Smart asks if this could remove a perennial insurance bugbear.

It's our round-up of the stories your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend...

LV= has big plans for 2012. Paul Robertson interviews one of the industry's most prominent Welshmen, Mark Jones.

The NAPF says retirees with £50,000 or less are unable to access advice and often get poor outcomes – but IFAs tell a different story …

Advisers explain why a suite of Treasury-approved simple products could still be helpful to the advice industry, despite widespread opposition and past failures.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has called for regulatory changes on financial products in the long term care sector.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) must force pension providers to push retirees towards specialist annuity advice, the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has said.

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has proposed a nationalised brokerage system to help retirees get the best annuity rate and reform the current "toxic system".

Insurers have warned of a fresh hike in premiums for millions of customers after the regulator hit the financial services industry with an inflation-busting 15.6% rise in annual fees.

Critical illness (CI) and mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) are among the most complicated financial products for consumers to understand, the ABI has found.