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New regulator gets yes vote.
More than 350 members of the Institute of Insurance Brokers attended an extraordinary general meeting in Birmingham this week to decide the future of broker regulation. Francis Higney reports on the outcome.
IFAs lead market.
Independent Financial Advisers continue to lead the £11 billion investment and insurance market. Fig...
Teamwork will beat the bug.
The end of the summer and approaching autumn will surely bring a plethora of requests from service s...
Aon on the up.
Aon Corporation posted interim results which showed total revenue for the quarter was around £1bn - ...
Auction of England shirt.
They think the biddings over, it is now. A replica 1966 England shirt signed by Sir Geoff Hurst was ...
Friends Prov offers £744m for L&M.
Friends Provident has made a £744m bid to acquire insurer London & Manchester Group, but ruled out d...
Steady dental cover.
Employees can smile with confidence after BCWA held the premiums for its company and dependents dent...
Supermarkets considering offering car insurance?
The car insurance market could be set for a new entrant bonanza with a number of key players conside...
Prudential sells up in Oz.
Prudential has decided to cease dealing down under. The company will sell its Australian and New Z...
Umbrella package embraces long term care cover.
Lincoln is updating its menu-based umbrella package of protection products Financial Foundations to ...
EC to launch marine pooling scheme.
The European Commission announced last week that it planned to provide a revised liability pooling s...
Bid may bolster mutual appreciation society.
The mutual is fighting back as Friends Provident undertakes a bid to acquire London and Manchester. ...
Equifax clinches deal.
Equifax has bought US solutions consultants The Decisioneering Group in a move which will offer solu...
Consultation ends with SIF in bullish form.
The first stage of the Law Society indemnity consultation process has finished with the Solicitor's ...
Keane buys Icom.
US IT consultant Keane has acquired its first European company, with a £30.6m buy-out of UK-based IT...
Brokers vote on proposal.
Brokers from all over the country descended on Birmingham earlier this week to vote on a proposal by...
Garden tools policy.
Age Concern Insurance Services (ACIS) has come up with a product for its green fingered clients. Ins...
Cendant in fraud scare.
Troubled Cendant, the US direct marketing and franchising group which recently acquired British brea...
Chubb merges three units.
Chubb Insurance Company of Europe has amalgamated three of its units into a new streamlined and effe...
An almost purr-fect site.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
George Bowyer storms into the charts.
Agricultural insurance broker George Bowyer has stormed into the charts with a new record about the ...
Insurers branding boost is vital.
Conventional insurance companies have been warned to realise the importance of a high profile brand ...
Fire alarms.
Smokecloak has launched the first range of smoke security devices with built-in battery back-up fitt...
What to do when waters break.
Insurers are playing a wait and see game before becoming embroiled in a row which could end up costi...