Aegon

Aegon is cutting its sales force and support roles by 160 with immediate effect and will be closing all six regional sales centres over the next six months.

The publication of Aegon income protection claims data today has brought the industry one step closer to full transparency, the Income Protection Task Force has said.

As someone who feels passionate about women having financial protection and owns a practice that specialises in advising women, I wrote a lot of protection business before G-Day.

Aegon has reported new life sales rose to £758m in 2012, up from £738m the year before.

Critical illness G-Day premium changes have shown Aegon, Scottish Provident and Bright Grey to have the highest increases, while LV= can boast the lowest, CIExpert has reported

In the latest of a series exploring the finer points of critical illness protection, CIExpert's Alan Lakey examines children's cover/

Aegon is to introduce gender neutral pricing on 17 December 2012 and is also taking this opportunity to introduce pricing in line with the change in basis of life office taxation, known as I-E.

Gender-specific contracts will "not exist" with Aegon if terms, start date and completed direct debit mandate have not been agreed by 20 December.

Advising on protection policies and writing in trust should not be a disjointed process, a tax and legal consultancy has said.

Aegon has cut individual life and income protection rates to take advantage of the gender directive.