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Discovery has released its results for the year ending June 2014, showing a pre-tax operating profit of £39.2m earned by its UK businesses PruProtect and PruHealth.

Over three-quarters (77%) of staff in the UK could not afford to meet their living costs if their income stopped tomorrow, research has warned.

The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) has called for the Money Advice Service (MAS) to widen its remit from generic advice to helping people "understand products" and "choosing a pension or a mortgage".

Some 64% of people who have moved up the property ladder in the past five years and have a bigger mortgage as a result, did not review their life insurance; research finds.

Network Sesame has again come out top as the most complained about advice firm, although numbers of cases against it were down, according to the Financial Ombudsman Service's (FOS) half yearly figures published today.

The first International Insurance Regulators' and Policymakers' Summit in Cardiff has launched in a bid to improve dialogue between UK insurers and international players.

The rate of children dying from cancer has dropped by 22% in the last decade, according to new figures.

Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP) result in employees being three and a half times more likely to cope with the demands of their job, with 21% rating their ability as "good" or "very good" prior to receiving counselling, compared to 75% afterwards....

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reported that firms have improved the way they handle complaints in its latest update on PPI redress work.

Only a quarter (24%) of adults in the UK with children under 16 have any form of financial protection, according to research.