Adviser / Broking

Skandia has re-entered the critical illness market with a 56-condition product aimed at high net worth clients.

Adviser professional partnerships with accountants have proved much more successful than those with solicitors, Positive Solutions has reported.

Protection aggregator Payingtoomuch.com has launched a ‘Find an Adviser' service for consumers and is inviting advisers to join.

Like it or not, when assessing the hours of work per case in relation to the remuneration, protection business is often less profitable than other lines of advice.

Adviser firm Positive Solutions has linked up with LifeQuote in an aim to support advisers post-RDR.

Having read recent calls from the protection insurance market in the media about the formation of a specialist protection insurance group, Protect and its members are willing to support such an entity.

APFA has confirmed it has no intentions of creating a stand-alone focus on protection amid industry lobbying about the need for a more prominent, unified voice within an existing adviser trade body.

A quarter of protection advisers at a recent industry body training session said they were keen to ditch multi-application approaches in favour of more efficient pre-underwriting processes.

Advisers are showing increasing interest in restricted advice models, but the majority are still trading with independent models, Aviva has reported.

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