Regulatory service provider The Consulting Consortium (TCC) has launched an analysis service aimed at helping financial adviser firms review client files for potential unsuitability.

Take-up of employer funded cash-plans increased by 15.4% as ‘polarised trends' dominated the cash plan market, Laing and Buisson has revealed.

‘Successful' insurers and advisers will start to integrate private medical insurance (PMI) and protection to respond to changing customer needs, PruHealth has argued.

LV= has launched its new Relevant Life Cover product on LifeQuote's Business Protection area.

Swiss Re has admitted it is in talks over the potential merger of its remaining Admin Re closed life business with Phoenix Group, less than a year after selling the US side of the operation.

The protection market must "embrace change" and be open to technological advances or risk dying out, delegates at The Protection Review conference heard.

Insurers must develop simple processes to engage advisers and the mass market, delegates at The Protection Review conference heard.

Life insurance take-up has increased among single-parent families over the past year, according to research.

The government has rejected amendments to the Care Bill that would require councils to refer people with long-term care needs to regulated independent financial advisers.

Insurance products that are marketed and sold through advisers need to undergo radical reform to ensure providers stay competitive in a post commission world, the CEO of Aegon has warned.