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LV='s head of equity release speaks to Retirement Planner about winning lifetime mortgages provider of the year at the Equity Release Awards

Who moved where in another busy week in financial services?

Fiona Murphy asks SIPP providers how the industry can restore adviser confidence in esoteric investments.

In December the ABI launched a consultation into improving the shopping around process for retirement income. Helen Morrissey asks whether the proposed processes go far enough to solve this issue.

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How hard is it to design disability-based protection products in 2012, asks Andy Milburn.

The decision by Standard & Poor's to strip France of its prized AAA-rating came as no surprise to a number of fund managers.

Stephen Gay is to leave AIFA after just 14 months to join the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

AXA Investment Managers' Richard Marwood says understanding how asset classes react differently to various market conditions is the key to real portfolio diversification.

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...