Scottish Provident

Providers rated for income protection and family income benefit offerings

Edwards to take up role with independent consultancy on 1 January

Masterful storytelling is advisers' most powerful tool to boost take-up of protection insurance among clients, according to an expert.

UNTOUCHABLE

Royal London is scrapping the Scottish Life, Bright Grey and Scottish Provident brands to move to a single "master brand" for its UK life, pensions and investment businesses.

TRUSTS

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident are to launch a series of enhancements to their protection products by end of October.

Men in their 30s have increased the amount they insure themselves by a fifth (20%) in the past year, according to new figures from Scottish Provident.

PROTECTION

The protection businesses of Royal London, Bright Grey and Scottish Provident, saw a 23% increase in new business during 2012, an increase it attributes in large part to the gender directive.