Advisers support the introduction of simplified protection products, with 79.4% seeing a place in the market for them, a survey has found.

A third of 33% of women aged over 65 needed help with at least one activity of daily living (ADL), compared to 23% of men, according to the Statistics from the Health and Social Care information centre.

The FCA has apologised following the Davis report into the leaking of a report to a Telegraph journalist.

Ageas Protect has said it will launch a whole of life policy with a long-term care component in 2015.

Labour has promised a £330m cancer treatment fund which will fund drugs, radiotherapy and surgery beyond what the current Cancer Drugs Fund offers, if the party wins the next election.

Nearly 15% of employees are unaware what pension and insurance benefits their employer provides, a survey by Friends Life has found.

There is a wide variety in the ways complaints are being handled across the NHS, primary care and social care services in England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found.

The issue of personal debts from funeral costs is to be debated in parliament as an MP has warned that support for low earners funding loved one's funerals requires a 'complete overhaul.'

IFA Compliance has announced that it will now make CIExpert available to all adviser firms who are customers.

From April to November The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has upheld nearly double the number of complaints compared to the same period last year.