Independent advice firm Informed Choice has produced a short video in response to life office Beagle Street's 'exhibition' parading IFAs as 'extinct dinosaurs'...
Windsor Life, the closed-book insurer, has rebranded as ReAssure.
Ratings agency Fitch has warned that life companies which rely on independent financial advisers (IFA) to distribute their products could be negatively affected by the retail distribution review (RDR), and predicted a bright future for bancassurance....
A pensioner has been charged with faking his death and then pretending to be his wife in order to claim on his life insurance policy.
Plans unveiled by the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to open up the corporate bond market to small investors on Monday 1st February have run into opposition.
The origin of the saying ‘united we stand, divided we fall' is variously attributed to Aesop's fable of the Four Oxen and the Lion; John Dickinson's revolutionary war song The Liberty Song, first published in the Boston Gazette in 1768 or, more commonly,...
The FSA has called on life offices to ensure their risk management procedures are up to scratch in what it calls a "rapidly changing business environment".
Royal London Group saw its overall operating profit rose 16% last year, but comments expressed by the firm suggests life offices are being increasingly squeezed by low margin rates.
Five years ago, the Financial Services Authority attempted to implement a regulatory regime which made mortgage lenders responsible for checking the quality of mortgage intermediary advice. After much argument from the industry the idea was thrown out....