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Peter Barnett, a policy analyst in the House of Lords, gives his initial view of the Spending Review and its impact on financial services.

Talking face to face remains an excellent tool for both existing and new clients. Maria Merricks looks at how to plan the perfect client seminar.

In advance of a change in the law, James Walker describes what the removal of the default retirement age could mean to businesses and their employee benefits

In every relationship there comes a time where the real value of it is revealed to both parties. Over the last year it seems many holders of individual PMI policies have been weighing that very question up, and as Owain Thomas writes, the answer is increasingly...

In recent years providers have concentrated on the underwriting elements of customer service. Rhys Dudding asks whether the other end, claims, is now ripe for an overhaul

As they evolve for today's markets, group products are set to sell well, but should group risk advisers focus on income protection or critical illness? Paul Avis makes the case for a balance of both

UK protection markets may be advanced, but they do not lead in terms of customer innovations, that could be the South Africans. Andy Milburn explains

For Fortis' Martin Werth change is all in a day's work and should be for the rest of the industry, he tells Paul Robertson

Alice suffered from anorexia in her teens and early 20s. She now has a partner with whom she shares a joint mortgage but also has some underlying mild depression.

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