Income Protection

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have announced their plan for Gender Directive pipeline business.

An estimated 12 million British workers who do not eat their five-a-day are reducing their ability to work effectively, according to vielife.

Welcome to the Autumn issue of Healthy, Wealthy & Wise. The special supplement can be a helpful aid for advisers in trying to build client understanding of protection. This issue is very focused on income protection and workplace benefits.

Employers should review their group income protection strategies due to increasing staff reliance on company benefits, Mercer is advising.

Unum is optimistic the Money Advice Service (MAS) will still be a strong contender to distribute the recent steering group-proposed simple products, despite recent troubles.

A comparison website has estimated a 15% life insurance rate rise for women post-Gender Directive and warned that getting in early will be vital.

Building a simple income replacement product as outlined in the recent Review of Simple Financial Products may not be entirely possible, Aviva has said.

UK businesses are being hindered by lack effective sickness absence management and group cover, Aviva has reported.

Unum was in talks yesterday with Carol Sergeant to bang the drum for more prominence on the workplace in the distribution of her steering group's simple income replacement concept.

One thing you can say about the recent Review of Simple Financial Products is that Carol Sergeant and her team have done their homework. If nothing else, it breaks down and builds up a clear target market for a simple income replacement concept.