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Scottish Provident has offered an additional grace period to its pipeline plans for last minute gender-specific applications.

The current picture for protection sales is mixed as the industry treads the last month to gender neutralisation.

Scottish Provident has launched whole of life cover without the investment element to replace its unit-linked Pegasus plan.

There has been no change or bias in the proportion of protection sales so far in the run up to gender neutralisation, an underwriting firm has reported.

With the introduction of gender equalisation, Canada Life International has announced its approach unisex rates for its Flexible Life Plan.

LV= has announced how it will manage amendments to protection policies after the EU gender directive deadline.

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An underwriting outsourcing company will be publishing updates on the number of female and male policies sold in the run up to the gender-neutral deadline and beyond.

F&TRC Protection Forum has compiled a matrix of key issues, simplifying where each provider stand to aid intermediaries during the countdown to G-Day.

Avelo has launched a dedicated G-day Focus Centre on its Exchange Portal to help advisers understand changes to providers' products being planned in response to the Gender Directive.