Treasury
Regulation
Advisers have given the Treasury's simple products initiative a tentative thumbs up while recognising that the financial services industry is overly complicated.
27 January 2012
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2 min read
Income Protection
Owain Thomas finds that, sometimes, driving a Ford Focus rather than an Aston Martin is a good thing
16 December 2011
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6 min read
Individual Protection
At a recent critical illness (CI) conference, it was observed that a lot of the individual market's underwriting problems could be reduced by using a low free cover limit (e.g. £50,000). Would bringing this into line with group business be helpful to...
21 October 2011
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5 min read
Regulation
HM Treasury believes simple products by definition should be allowed to be sold without advice.
11 August 2011
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5 min read
uncategorised
Advisers do not stand alone when it comes to regulation and Europe. Paul Robertson talks to Steve White, your man in Brussels
11 August 2011
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9 min read
Long Term Care
The Dilnot Commission may have come up with a workable solution to the adult social care problem but, as Peter Barnett explains, it has to get past the politician.
11 August 2011
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9 min read
Regulation
The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) has implored the Treasury to apply an "appropriate, proportionate and cost-effective approach" to regulating insurance brokers.
14 April 2011
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2 min read
Individual Protection
Simple protection products need baseline standards and a goverment recognised stamp of approval, according to the chairman of trade body Protect.
24 March 2011
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2 min read
