Insurer

Network Pink is running a graduate training programme to help bring new blood into the protection and mortgage industry.

NFU Mutual will be taking part in The World's Biggest Coffee Morning to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support at its Brook Street office in Leek.

Foresters Friendly Society is now providing Life Insurance cover to Global Connections a group of agencies of charity workers with members based both in the UK and overseas.

Although hiring in the insurance sector remained at positive levels, there was a decrease in overall insurance hiring compared to 2012, research has found.

LV has reported a fall in its protection sales of 9%, according to its interim results for the half year to 30 June 2013.

Engage Mutual has reported a fall in total new business sales and premiums but is ‘upbeat' about its life insurance and health growth, according to its H1 2013 results.

Europe's insurers spent as much as €9bn keeping pace with a barrage of regulatory changes imposed on the industry in the years following the financial crisis, according to a report by Deloitte.

Life insurance and healthcare provider Engage Mutual has confirmed Peter Burrows as its new chief executive.

Partnership has reported its new business premiums of long-term care annuities had ‘fallen behind expectations' as sales dropped by 38% compared to the same period last year.

Zurich's group chief financial officer Pierre Wauthier was yesterday found dead in his apartment in Zug, Switzerland.