Scottish Widows

Intermediaries should be regarded as agents of insurers when they obtain pre-contract information, unless they are genuinely searching the whole market on the insured's behalf, suggests the Law Commission.

Paymentshield's plans to launch mortgage payment protection insurance which incorporates the benefits of income protection has raised hopes a 'hybrid' product may solve some of the problems inherent in the industry.

Well, I don't know about you but I was utterly shocked to read that you, as advisers, don't add anything to a protection sale. No, you didn't misread that, according to recently published research from the Pru, buying protection through an adviser doesn't...

Over the past 15 years adult children have drained their parents of around £55bn in savings, claims Scottish Widows.

The days are long gone when pensions ‘simplification' corresponded to any dictionary definition of the word. A laudable effort to make pensions easier to understand is bogged down in complexity that most people find utterly baffling.

Final year figures for Scottish Widows' protection arm dropped almost 10%, despite an overall increase in IFA sales and in its life and pensions business.

Pensions A-Day seems such a long time ago and after the subsequent changes of benefits, did not do exactly what it said on the tin.

Scottish Widows has launched a tool to assess people's personality as a way of improving financial capability.

A service designed to provide advisers with a universal quotation request form for six enhanced annuities providers may not be as simple as intended.

I had to listen to the figure again, again and again. I had to read the numbers again, again and again. It couldn't really be true could it - city bonuses hitting £19bn with some young whizz kid traders netting millions in bonuses? But, yes, it appears...