Mortgage advisers can ramp up business by taking a very different yet simple approach with protection, a mortgage advice firm has said.

An underwriting outsourcing company will be publishing updates on the number of female and male policies sold in the run up to the gender-neutral deadline and beyond.

The aging workforce is causing a tightening in insurer group terms, a group risk specialist has said.

Income protection needs to strip out the state benefits element if the product is to move upwards, a consultancy firm has stated.

LV= has increased its income protection benefit guarantee and introduced a high guaranteed insurability (GIO) option.

The NHS Outcomes Framework for 2013 to 2014 has been published to help keep the system focused on measuring outcomes rather than targets.

Advisers should be asking about elderly parents in client fact finds, Partnership has said.

The Income Protection Task Force has planned to launch a consumer charter as part of a three-point plan for income protection.

Protection advisers should fully expect a regulatory review of commission, Jelf has warned.

So we heard from British Friendly recently that income protection (IP) sales are not benefiting from the gender change opportunity. Advisers have reported similar, but that life is tracking the opposite trend.