A study assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a range of financial planning tools available to advisers has been published.
Lloyds Banking Group plans to double sales and profits from its bancassurance proposition within the next three years as it seeks to take advantage of an "advice and distribution gap" it believes will develop as a result of the Retail Distribution Review...
Colin Walsh, chairman of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), is set to leave the organisation.
Influential asset manager Schroders has branded suggestions that Lloyds Banking Group sell more than the recommended 630 branches as setting "a dangerous precedent for UK banks".
Income protection (IP) sales have continued to slide despite an overall rise in the volume of term assurance products sold, according to Swiss Re.
A fifth of workers are failing to save anything for retirement, a survey of more than 5,000 people suggests.
Lloyds Banking Group is likely to retain insurance subsidiary Scottish Widows following a strategic review of the business.
Brits are twice more likely to insure their pets or mobile phones than their income, according to research.
A third (33%) of UK households could not cope financially if they lost their main income yet only 7% of the population has income protection (IP), according to research.