Bright Grey has added to its simplified products offering with the launch of its Lifestyle Plus plan.
Ascentric saw net new assets rise 8% in 2011 after 226 extra adviser firms signed up to the Royal London-owned wrap.
Bright Grey paid out 91% of critical illness (CI) claims in the last six months of 2011.
Bright Grey has urged Britons to cut back on spending to help stabilise their finances and provide enough to secure a safety net for emergencies.
Recommending products to clients based on price is not the adviser way, but Roger Edwards, proposition director at Bright Grey and Scottish Provident, says it may be time to change tack...
With white papers due this year on long-term care (Dilnot Review), sickness absence and also the Treasury's work on simple products, how much explicit help (not just macro changes to benefits and the NHS) would you want the government to give the industry?...
Severity based protection payments have become more common over the year. Phil Jeynes explains why in his overview of 2011
Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have warned that insurers could be "shooting themselves in the foot" by changing the way they request medical evidence from GPs.
With take up of sales in income protection (IP) by advisers so low, reflecting in low consumer sales, what could be done to the product to make it more attractive to IFAs, apart from increased commission?
Half of insurers are now offering some form of HIV Life Assurance, up from 35% last year, according to medical financial advisers Unusual Risks.