News
Critical Illness
Legal & General has extended its critical illness (CI) policy expiry age to 70 while allowing multiple claims for children.
13 January 2011
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Multi-manager
Prism Capital Management's three risk-rated multi-manager funds have broken through the £100m AUM barrier less than two years since launch following a surge of interest from advisers.
13 January 2011
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Protection
The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) has outlined its priority lobbying issues for the year ahead.
13 January 2011
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Mortgages
Almost 60% of buyers opted for a fixed- rate purchase mortgage during 2010, with more buyers expected to choose the product this year, new research shows.
13 January 2011
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Investment
Graham Kitchen, head of UK equities at Henderson, has taken over as head of equities from Bill McQuaker.
13 January 2011
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Income Protection
An exception for employers offering group risk benefits has been included in Government plans to scrap the default retirement age (DRA).
13 January 2011
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Economics / Markets
The Bank of England has maintained interest rates at 0.5% and kept its quantitative easing programme at £200bn.
13 January 2011
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ETFs
Russell Investments has announced its intention to acquire US One, provider of the One Fund ETF.
13 January 2011
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Regulation
The FSA has fined a former research analyst £50,000 for making misleading and inaccurate disclosures to clients through Bloomberg instant messenger.
13 January 2011
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Your profession
A return to a maximum commission agreement (MCA) would have "solved a lot of the industry's problems" and reinvigorated product innovation, True Potential managing partner David Harrison says.
13 January 2011
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