regulation

Melissa Collett discusses why there is legal uncertainty in a recent Financial Ombudsman decision on an Aviva life policy complaint.

The government is set to introduce a tiered structure for probate fees as high as £20k based on the value of the deceased's estate and is investigating whether life insurance policies in trust should be bought forward to pay fees.

Every working adult in the UK would be offered a voucher for a financial health check session with a professional financial adviser, under a proposal developed by the Personal Finance Society.

Paradigm Protect, the directly authorised protection proposition linked to Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm Partners, will be holding five specialist protection events across the country in the first quarter of the year.

Too often overlooked in times of low inflation, Vitality's Justin Taurog argues the time is now right for advisers to talk about Indexation, to safeguard their clients' future protection needs.

Some 90% of protection advisers agree that client retention is a key focus for their businesses with just under a quarter (23%) citing it as "their biggest business challenge."

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published its finalised guidance providing firms with actions to treat their closed-book customers fairly.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has urged the government to reconsider rising insurance premium tax (IPT) to 12%.

UK insurers are calling for regulators to refine Solvency II to make it more appropriate for the UK market, rather than replace it when the UK leaves the EU.

Alan Knowles questions whether the consolidation of major protection insurers last year represents a win or a loss for advisers and the overall market.