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Advisers will "undoubtedly" leverage growing long-term care expertise this year to bridge professional connections with solicitors, SIFA has said.

Health insurance specialist APRIL UK is targeting £4m worth of new PMI sales through advisers in 2013 and is expanding its broker offering.

The market for international private medical insurance (IPMI) for recently unstable countries in Africa and the Middle East is growing.

The top five intermediary platforms will likely show their hand on protection propositions in the second half of the year, a technology and consultancy firm to the major intermediary platforms has reported.

The ageing workforce is creating absence management issues for employers unaware of an exemption which can keep overall protection costs down, Group Risk Development (GRiD) has found.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is currently upholding about 47% of all complaints, according to the FOS' own figures.

Incoming Bank of England (BoE) governor Mark Carney intends to place economic growth at the top of his priority list when he takes on his new role.

Symponia fears many people could unwittingly be paying for care fees twice over as a ‘significant' number of insurance policies remain unclaimed on.

Corporate clients with significant staff numbers to auto-enrol are struggling to pin down budgets for other employee benefits, an adviser has said.

The last week of 2012 saw a dramatic spike in grants given out by Macmillan Cancer Support for cancer patients struggling to cope.