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Product placement could work - Bright Grey

The current picture for protection sales is mixed as the industry treads the last month to gender neutralisation.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is to recommend that members are allowed to refer clients to both restricted and independent advisers.

The challenge for income protection continues. The current focus for most providers is currently on the legislative issues of Solvency II, RDR and gender neutral pricing. These issues are large and distracting from product development.

The Money Advice Service (MAS) has hired Caroline Rookes as its new chief executive to succeed Tony Hobman.

There has been no change or bias in the proportion of protection sales so far in the run up to gender neutralisation, an underwriting firm has reported.

A panel debate at the recent COVER Forum discussed medical disclosure application forms, with some arguing tele-underwriting was the answer while others said universal forms would beat the ever-lengthening applications. How much of a problem are existing...

International PMI is a huge growth area but many advisers are reluctant to engage, a large advisory firm has said.

Engage Mutual has joined the panel of mortgage and protection network First Complete.

Since Andrew Dilnot published his Fairer Care Funding report in July 2011, much has been written and said about it by the press, by charities and by politicians on all sides.