Friends Provident

Employees value the support of workplace benefits during the current economic climate, new research from Friends Provident says.

Friends Provident is launching three new business protection seminars, aimed at advisers who have different levels of business protection knowledge.

Nearly half (24 million) of people in the UK have no insurance in place to cover loss of income through illness or the death of a breadwinner.

Friends Provident has launched a trust toolkit to ensure that trusts are high on the agenda for adviser's customers to consider.

Income protection sales still lag behind other types of insurance. Ed Stuart-Brown and Colin Micklewright talk to Scott Sinclair, news editor at IFA-Online, to discuss why

The ABI reviews the statement of best practice on critical illness every three years. Given the high frictional costs associated with the change that the customer ultimately pays for, is it still correct that we should follow this strict path?

A quicker underwriting process and increased free cover limits are two of a number of upgrades Friends Provident has made to its group income protection (GIP) offering.

Friends Provident has once again entered discussions with Resolution Limited after receiving a "sufficiently improved" bid from the Clive Cowdery-led acquisition vehicle.

John, 45, is an office manager looking for protection. He has a £200,000 mortgage and two children that he has custody of following his divorce two years ago. He does not exercise and although he had an alcohol problem four years ago, he does not drink....

Following his trip around some of the insurance worlds most developed markets, Mark Jones talks to Paul Robertson on the lessons learnt.