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FinancialAdviser ISSUE 07 August 2008 >> Features
Leading Story
More than three-quarters of SMEs 'failing to check CVs'
Story by: Anna Lawlor, Financial Adviser
A perception that reference-checking is too time consuming is preventing proper review of CVs - Peninsula
- Time published: 00:01
- Date published: 07.08.2008
- Published in: Advisers
Features
Friends promises improved income protection processing
Friends Provident's eSelect system aims to enhance adviser's experience processing income protection policies
- Date published: 07.08.2008
L&G unveils protection business tool
The protection sales performance of financial advisers is to be scrutinised by Legal & General through its new ReMIT adviser tool
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Work to be done on protection sales - ABI
The Association of British Insurers has found that 69 per cent of respondents in a poll said they have no plans to take out any form of protection insurance
- Date published: 07.08.2008
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Advisers weigh moving into equity release as mortgage business shrinks - survey
Market turmoil is encouraging advisers to consider expanding into the equity release market
- Date published: 07.08.2008
"The challenge we have is to get the protection gap more tangible and meaningful for consumers"
Ron Wheatcroft, technical manager for Swiss Re Life & Health Limited, speaks to Girlie Garduce about the importance of people power and the impact of the protection gaps on the industry
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Road to recovery
A perception of insurers looking for any excuse not to pay out is being blamed for the drop in sales of critical illness cover
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Market value is what someone is prepared to pay
Correcting McGahan's car critique
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Retirement plans must overcome inflation uncertainty
Products do exist that allow for the ability to opt into guarantees
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Bridging the gap
Critical to closing the insurance protection gap in the UK is a new advice-based regime, which boils down to a more effective distribution system
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Saxo Bank goes from yellow to gold
Online trader celebrates Tour de France success
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Bright Grey has a tea party
Royal London arm holds tea party to raise money for charity
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Banking on the baby boom
More babies can only be good for the economy, can't they?
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Definitely maybe over risk levels
Work on measuring risk levels is progressing
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Analysing the body of evidence
A range of healthcare officials, and not just doctors, can produce a recommendation that an employee would benefit from time off work, and although it does not carry the same legal weight any note they produce should be used to carefully consider any absence
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Juggling a week of work and study
Penny O'Nions, principal of Buckinghamshire-based The Onion Group, spends her week rushing between work and and studying for law school at the weekend. As well as the usual mix of meetings she also manages to find time to speak to a provider about new products, although she holds out little hope they may deliver something she actually needs
- Date published: 07.08.2008
DIY spirit lives on
The UK's entrepreneurial community still believes it is worth taking the plunge and starting a business despite an economic slowdown, new research has revealed.
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Mystery shopper: Wolverhampton
The mystery shopper visits Wolverhampton this week to find out about protection plans.
- Date published: 07.08.2008
UK lagging behind Europe in terms of family-owned firms
Family-owned firms in the UK are a 'neglected' part of economy - research
- Date published: 07.08.2008
Rapid email benefits
Businesses not set up to respond to emails rapidly are missing out on lucrative new business contracts, according to the annual Vodafone critical response time index.
- Date published: 07.08.2008
We're still standing, but we need to walk
A raft of changes in the last year have helped the sector in terms of confidence but more needs to be done
- Date published: 07.08.2008
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