News
Groupama Results 2021
Groupama published its latest financials on Friday last week and the news is god. Premium income is up 7.5% and net income is up an impressive 178% year-on-year. The big increase in revenues was in […]
savings
Insurance Regulation
FCA Aims To Dissuade Savers From Holding Cash
The FCA is proposing that firms offer a new ‘default’ investment option to help non-workplace pension customers save for their retirement. Currently non-workplace pension customers have to choose their own investments from an increasingly wide […]
UK Insurance Trends
Having a Good Pandemic? 9.5m Of Brits Are Better Off
Research from pensions and retirement specialist LV= highlights how the finances and emotional wellbeing of UK consumers continues to improve as we approach the end of Covid restrictions. The latest LV= Wealth and Wellbeing Monitor […]
Technology
Imburse Launches Micro-Savings Tool For Insurers
Global payment marketplace Imburse has announced the launch of MicroSavings, an integrated savings feature which will allow insurance companies and financial institutions to automate incremental consumer savings. This new digital offering will allow organizations to […]
UK Insurance Trends
Resilience: Zurich Calls For Income Protection Schemes
New ways of protecting people from the kind of economic distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may be found in mandatory schemes that would provide support when hardship hits, research from Zurich Insurance Group and […]
UK Insurance Trends
Pandemic Upside: Those in Work Are Building Up Savings
The UK savings ratio – the amount of money households save as a percentage of their gross disposable income – reached 16.3% in 2020, up from 6.8% in 2019, and Investec estimates the average UK […]
Life/Health/Critical illness
Will The Pandemic Spark a Revival For Mutuals?
Some people have had a good pandemic. Those in the public sector have enjoyed full wages, sometimes coupled with a lack of commuting costs of around £3000 for the year. In the NHS and other […]
Motor Insurance
Can Covid Help You Reduce Your Car Insurance Costs?
The coronavirus pandemic has changed much about life and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. While obviously there has been a lot of doom and gloom, one small plus is the fact […]