Income Protection

Peter Hamilton, head of retail propositions at Zurich Financial Services, was named ‘Personality of the Year' at the Protection Review 2016 awards last night.

Speakers at the 2016 Protection Review conference have urged advisers to rethink how they sell protection alongside a mortgage and for lenders to help ease this process.

TCP LifeSystems has been contracted by The Exeter to re-develop their IT platform.

F&TRC has agreed a deal with Paradigm to build the first bespoke version of its Quality Analyser tool for the group's advisers.

Providers of income protection should allow additional cover for pension contributions, similar to the group income protection and executive income protection, adviser firm Drewberry has urged.

The Exeter is offering two months of free income protection to new clients as part of a limited special offer.

Only one in five 5 UK respondents to a global survey have income protection cover in the event of becoming too ill or disabled to work, according to research from Zurich.

Stonebridge Group has urged mortgage and protection advisers to focus on the post-EU Referendum ‘opportunities' around remortgaging and protection cover.

Mark Graves, sales director of Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has urged mortgage brokers and financial advisers to discuss protection with every customer saying ‘you don't get to choose which customers are getting the value of your knowledge.'

LV= has promoted Myles Rix, managing director of its protection business and John Perks, managing director of its Retirement Solutions business, to its Group executive team.