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Martin Werth, managing director of Ageas Protect is to step down at the end of this year.

HSBC has announced it will take responsibility for all customers mis-sold investment products by NHFA, a care fees advice business it acquired in 2005.

Health insurers have applauded the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) decision to refer the operation of the private healthcare market to the Competition Commission (CC).

Jelf Employee Benefits has predicted an upturn in group risk consultations in 2012.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned investors against dealing with a clone of asset manager GAM.

Britons are the least likely people in the world to think they need to save for future long-term care costs, an international survey has found.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has once again kept interest rates on hold at 0.5% and left QE unchanged at £275bn, but the European Central Bank has cut rates back to their historic low of 1%.

James Hay Partnership is to close its family SIPP product to new business due to a lack of adviser demand.

The government has begun consulting on how insurers can use gender as a risk factor after a European Court of Justice ruling said providers could not charge different premiums to men and women because of their sex.

The FSA has fined Integrated Financial Arrangements plc, which offers the Transact platform, £3.5m for failings in relation to its protection of client money over an eight-and-a-half year period.