Gender-neutral increases will move providers away from competing on price and restore a more consumer-led market, Friends Life has said.

Royal London has joined Sesame Bankhall's restricted advice panel to provide personal and business protection through Bright Grey, and pensions and retirement products through Scottish Life.

Selling stuff is simple: a need must be identified, a product recommended to satisfy it and someone to sell it who gets paid for doing so. The protection world however is not so simple.

LV= is "intensely" monitoring gender split risks after reporting massive sales figures in the run up to G-Day.

The Coalition has remained tight-lipped on any long-term care funding plans in its mid-term review, despite reports that it is set to introduce a £75,000 care cap structure.

The industry is continuing to report pre G-Day sales spikes as it moves beyond the deadline.

Long-term care cost plans will be announced by the Coalition today when it issues its Mid-Term Review.

Former care services minister Paul Burstow will be speaking at an event in the House of Commons on 8 January to launch the findings of a report on the future of long-term care.

Advisers are actively acknowledging the importance of execution-only protection capability but are struggling to make viable propositions.

There has been a growing noise across the industry about the ability of the aggressive aggregators to pilfer protection business from financial advisers.