Legal & General has stressed the importance of income protection following Shelter reports of increasing numbers of people receiving housing, debt and benefits advice.

The successes of now-defunct primary care trusts must not be forgotten in the redrawn commissioning structure, the NHS Confederation has warned.

Ageas Protect has added life of another cover to its term assurance products.

Skandia has re-entered the critical illness market with a 56-condition product aimed at high net worth clients.

Adviser professional partnerships with accountants have proved much more successful than those with solicitors, Positive Solutions has reported.

Protection aggregator Payingtoomuch.com has launched a ‘Find an Adviser' service for consumers and is inviting advisers to join.

Like it or not, when assessing the hours of work per case in relation to the remuneration, protection business is often less profitable than other lines of advice.

Adviser firm Positive Solutions has linked up with LifeQuote in an aim to support advisers post-RDR.

Bupa has launched mobile occupational health screening units for corporate clients in an aim to reduce working hours lost to travelling to medical screenings.

Selling property has become the most realistic source of funding for long-term care this year, overtaking the state and savings, Partnership has reported.