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Provider takes basic product route in response to declined claims statistics

With only a month to go, delegates places at this year's COVER Protection Forum are running out.

New AIFA director general, Chris Cummings , talks to Peter Madigan about the issues facing IFAs, the role of the ombudsman and the upheavals depolarisation are causing

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has decided to issue a consultation paper on pension term assurance (PTA), proposing that it should be sold under Insurance Conduct of Business (ICOB) rules in addition to Conduct of Business (COB) rules.

Nearly two in five intermediary firms have not begun to prepare themselves for the Financial Services Authority's (FSA's) mandatory electronic regime, according to a recent poll.

New figures released by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) have painted a thoroughly confusing picture of the health of the protection market.

Some 95.5% of advisers think customers should be told whether they are receiving advice before they buy protection, according to COVER's latest web poll.

The number of IFAs adopting tele-underwriting application services looks set to double over the next 12 months, according to new research.

The aging population means that the over-60s market is growing ever more important with equity release being one of the main consumer needs. Peter Madigan investigates

Mike and his wife, Sandy, are both 54-years old. Mike recently retired from his £100,000 job as a European sales executive of a large firm. They are now looking to relocate to Spain, where they have bought a villa. They are planning to stay for the foreseeable...