The group life market may be in robust health, but it does face an array of conditions driving change. Edward Murray investigates the developments that lie in store over the next year.
Group Risk Development (Grid) has hailed Swiss Re's group risk market report as "most encouraging."
Employers are increasingly becoming benefit facilitators rather than benefit providers, Swiss Re's Group Watch survey finds.
Severity based protection payments have become more common over the year. Phil Jeynes explains why in his overview of 2011
A marked change in consumer awareness is causing consumers to take an "austere" self-assessment of protection needs, Swiss Re has said.
Swiss Re has reported a 118% increase in net income in the third quarter.
Ron Wheatcroft discusses how three reports published in September demonstrate the difficulties in funding an ageing society.
Earlier this week the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) released a report declaring the public was massively disconnected from the reality of long-term care (LTC) costs.
Mortality projection models are in need of a radical overhaul to ease insurers' funding problems and give them confidence when pricing future retirement income solutions, an influential new report argues.
Dates have been confirmed for the Protection Review and Personal Finance Society's (PFS) independent protection training sessions.