IFA

Workshops to help advisers understand risks associated with helping elderly clients plan for later life will be held across the UK in October and November.

The advice market for group protection products is changing rapidly. But are providers a help or a hindrance, asks Nigel Hartley.

I'm an IFA struggling to get clients to commit to taking out cover. How do I secure successful protection sales?

How could we quickly increase volume in the UK protection market by 5%? Mick James looks to conversion options as a possible answer.

Almost two-thirds of advice firm owners would sell up early for the right price, a poll has found.

There is a chance that not only will stem cell therapy enter the mainstream, but that IFAs will be advising on it. As a pilot opens in the UK, Sue Wilkinson outlines the case.

Financial advisers operating in Europe are less strictly regulated than their UK counterparts yet consumers are still afforded the same degree of protection, according to Zurich Life government affairs principal Matt Connell.

Intrinsic Financial Services has announced that all 3,000 advisers across the Group will have the option to use LifeQuote from 3rd February 2014.

Network Sesame has confirmed that it is planning to drop its independence mandate for investment and pension advice and move to a ‘whole of market' restricted proposition in 2014.

The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) current stance on the definition of independence is at odds with the views of up to half of the IFA community, according to research.