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COVER is offering a report outlining an understanding of how you and your peers select which products and providers, as well as a company profile and performance analysis of all main providers in the protection and health insurance marketplace.

Peter Barnett examines the consequences of the Governments Long Term Care announcement

I suspect most of you are fed up with the electronic trade news feeds, feeding us a diet of gloom and doom on the start of RDR.

It is with regret that I am already breaking my new year's resolution.

Whatever 2013 holds, we need to return to the art of actually selling, says Mark Dennison

Product placement could work - Bright Grey

When the Retail Distribution Review was first introduced by the FSA they declared it was a key component of a consumer protection strategy.

Since Andrew Dilnot published his Fairer Care Funding report in July 2011, much has been written and said about it by the press, by charities and by politicians on all sides.

Today's Protection industry is largely unrecognisable to that of a decade or so years ago, and yet some habits appear to die hard, says Nick Aumonier.

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.