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Tenet has achieved formal Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) accreditation of its adviser development programme for continuing professional development (CPD).

Thousands on sickness benefits have been found fit to work and will receive no further support under welfare system reforms.

The majority of MPs agree that increasing awareness of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme would improve consumer confidence and contribute to increased financial stability, according to a poll released today.

The prolonged downward trend in employee absence rates has plateaued with long term sickness increasing, new research finds.

Cirencester Friendly is calling for the industry to focus its efforts on re-building trust rather than relying on new products to revive the industry.

Ageas UK's first quarter 2012 results show protection sales' gross written premiums up 71.2% to £15.0m and new annual premiums up 34.3% to £9m compared with the same period last year.

British businesses appear split down the middle on their knowledge of group income protection, research finds.

Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, will signal on Wednesday that interest rates will remain around their record low until the end of next year at the earliest, the Daily Telegraph reports.

Only 7% of those looking at long term care (LTC) would consider asking an IFA, with only banks considered less.

As the first of a series of improvements, Universal Provident (UP) has added a employee assistance programme (EAP) and a care advisory service to its group PMI plan, Choices Corporate.