Group Protection

Friends Provident is unveiling a new protection toolkit and a website which it says has been developed in response to feedback from advisers

Protection is unlikely to join the national employment savings trust (NEST) project following a meeting between Government representatives and counterparts from the group risk industry.

Openwork is running a series of road shows to mark the launch of its new protection panel.

Canada Life and the Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) are launching a series of free seminars for advisers aimed at growing the group income protection (GIP) market.

Ellipse is holding a series of breakfast events for advisers in advance of launching their online group risk system towards the end of the year.

Bupa is branding its range of flexible benefits as Bupa Flex-pertise.

Gen Re has backed a community rated income protection (IP) product to compliment state benefits and called on the industry to add its support to the proposal.

Friends Provident is adding mastectomy cover and five new ABI+ conditions to its critical illness (CI) product.

Advisers are optimistic about the future of the income protection (IP) market despite overwhelmingly expecting fewer IFAs to be practising in the sector and fewer products being available, new research says.

An opportunity to realise the value of group income protection and get some significant market growth?