Sesame Bankhall Group

Four protection distributors with 60 adviser firms join 'test and learn' process before full market roll-out in six weeks

Rewire Routines campaign to educate mortgage protection advisers raised over £10,000 for British Heart Foundation

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.'

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has reconfigured its management team following a strategic review that led to the demise of its investment advice network earlier in the year.

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has lost almost 60% of its network's member firms in the wake of a decision to kill-off its problem-laden investment advice business.

The proportion of complaints against advisory groups found in favour of the consumer is significantly below the average for the sector, the Financial Ombudsman Service's (FOS's) latest data shows.

Restricted adviser network Sesame would be broke and unable to trade without the continued financial support of its parent company Friends Life, Aviva has said in a note to shareholders ahead of its planned acquisition of the provider.

Sesame, the adviser network arm of Sesame Bankhall group, has reported a loss for 2012 of £9.3m - four times its losses in 2011 - as a provision for a regulatory fine took its toll.

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has increased its restricted advice proposition with the addition of individual and corporate private medical insurance (PMI) products from Aviva and PruHealth.

Sesame Bankhall Group has announced its executive chairman Ivan Martin is leaving after six years with the group.