Group Protection

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.

The environment income protection is sold into is changing fast. Lee Lovett sees promising signs this could be the start of the time when IP cover comes of age

A large majority of employers feel ill-equipped to help staff return to work after illness while a significant minority are calling for auto-enrolment into group risk schemes, new research finds.

Legal and General has reported half of group income protection queries have been about retirement age implications for benefits.