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Incentive schemes: where do the real issues lie?

On Wednesday, the Financial Services Authority published the results of a review into risks faced by customers from financial incentives, and found that bonus-based schemes increase the risk of mis-selling. With a consultation on the issue launched …

Regulator to review "rotten" incentive schemes

Financial Services Authority managing director Martin Wheatley has laid out plans to stamp out mis-selling created by sales incentives that result in customers being sold products they do not need or cannot use.

Editor's comment: Coming back to bite

Confident words have a nasty habit of coming back to haunt you – as Admiral’s CEO Henry Engelhardt discovered to his cost this week. From stockmarket darling to deep disappointer inside nine months, the motor-focused UK insurer has certainly suffered a…

View from the top: An apple a day

‘We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them,’ was something Apple founder Steve Jobs once said to a journalist eager to unpick the secrets that underpinned the firm’s meteoric rise to become one of the biggest companies in…

Insurance Insight Q&A: Paul Lindeboom

Broker THB recently made the news with its expansion plans for its Amsterdam office. Insurance Insight caught up with Paul Lindeboom, executive director of THB’s Amsterdam operation, to find out all the news on the new appointments and what the plans are…

Interview - Rob Brown: The best job in the market

Despite being one to shun the limelight, Rob Brown, chief executive of Aon UK, has no qualms about answering his critics over the firm's carrier charge and contingent commissions, admitting he is pleased with progress to date. Daniel Dunkley reports.

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