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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has called on firms and individuals to tell them about bad behaviour within the marketplace to strengthen the regulator.

Symponia has launched a long term care (LTC) academy with a view to supporting specialist long term care advisers and raising standards of financial advice for the elderly.

According to Disability Rights UK, the Government has admitted it is discussing with GPs how to introduce a reporting mechanism for work capability assessments.

The UK narrowly escaped a double-dip recession by posting slight growth in the second quarter of the year, according to the latest monthly GDP estimate from NIESR.

The long-term protection market has remained resilient through 2011 despite significant increase in the UK protection gap, Swiss Re has reported.

Advisers have been struggling to sell income protection because clients claim not to need it, Defaqto research has shown.

Engage Mutual has launched a voluntary option of its one fund health cash plan to broaden its corporate offering.

Social media-savvy young people could represent an emerging market for online risk insurance cover, according to research conducted by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).

This is the last week to comment on what should be covered by the cross-government long term conditions strategy - the deadline for comments is 15 June.

Employees around the world are more engaged with their workplace than they have been for years, a study finds.