Adviser / Broking

The new scheme will change the employee benefits landscape, but as Peter Barnett points out, there will be winners and losers

Resolution, the buy-out vehicle launched by entrepreneur Clive Cowdery, is highly unlikely to make any further acquisitions and will instead focus on developing new life products.

Paul McMahon has stepped down as director of corporate at Friends Provident to become group marketing director at rival Aegon.

Poor knowledge of the system of lasting powers of attorney (LPA) has left many pensioners seeking long-term care facing delays and other problems, solicitors say.

Paradigm has kicked off a revamp of its protection offering by adding Bupa Individual Protection's proposition to its Elite protection panel.

Peter Chadborn believes the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) may provide an opportunity for advisers to secure clients that banks cannot afford to service.

Are you afraid that when the RDR arrives the public will perceive advisers as charging fees for all products and so not consider coming to you for protection advice?

The financial Ombudsman (FOS) is calling for a budget increase of up to £15m in 2011/12 to deal with a shift towards harder-fought cases, but says it will freeze case fees and its general annual levy for the second year running.

The first products to be developed as part of a government drive to introduce 'simple' financial products with standardised features should be deposit savings and life and income protection (IP) insurance products, Treasury financial secretary Mark Hoban...

Protection products will be ‘pivotal' to adviser firms' future prosperity, according to Sesame Bankhall.