Group Protection

The impact of autoenrolment on group risk benefits has been outlined in a Canada Life guide for corporate clients.

For many in the third world, micro-insurance is where their protection purchasing history will start, and maybe this is where many should start in the developed world too? Greg Becker looks to Tanzania.

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.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to hold the interest rate at 0.5%.

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.