A consumer comparison website has reported an overnight rise in premiums for whole of life as a direct result of the Gender Directive.

Educating consumers on the importance of income protection is a job for government and industry-led campaigns, advisers have said.

Income protection sales have not been benefiting from the potential business opportunity created by the Gender Directive, British Friendly has said.

Protection advisers will need to be clear when building simplified advice-style propositions to address basic client needs, an adviser firm has warned.

Breaking into international PMI can be complex and brokers need to be careful, an adviser warned at COVER's breakfast briefing yesterday.

BBC's Watchdog aired concerns last night that the banks have not been honouring commitments to pay back missold PPI.

The PMI concerns raised in BBC1's Watchdog last night were all about choice and cost control, WPA has said.

Engage Mutual will be moving to gender-neutral pricing on its over-50s guaranteed life cover from 4 December 2012.

LV= has launched an online calculator for advisers to work out potential commission loss in the run up to G-Day.

Foresters Life is working on cutting costs in its outsourced underwriting process.