Cirencester Friendly

The FSA has confirmed that advisers who are not level 4-qualified can still advise on Holloway insurance products.

There appears to be confusion among consumers, some financial advisers and in particular claims chasing companies, when it comes to payment protection insurance (PPI) and income protection (IP).

So we heard from British Friendly recently that income protection (IP) sales are not benefiting from the gender change opportunity. Advisers have reported similar, but that life is tracking the opposite trend.

Educating consumers on the importance of income protection is a job for government and industry-led campaigns, advisers have said.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has reported a more "entrenched" attitude by both consumers and businesses across the board in health insurance complaints.

Cirencester Friendly has been working on its marketing strategy to focus more prominently on independent advisers in response to RDR.

Cirencester Friendly has urged advisers to review family protection needs following DWP household income figures published today.

Cirencester Friendly is calling for the industry to focus its efforts on re-building trust rather than relying on new products to revive the industry.

Cirencester friendly is replacing its legacy IT systems.

Cirencester friendly has called for a standard, industry wide, Claims Statistics format for reporting claims statistics.