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How do you rate insurers’ complaint handling?

| By Edward Lander | 05:14 | 24 July 2008

Consumers obviously think that complaint handling among insurers is getting worse. Do you?

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Are variable annuities a liability?

| By Edward Lander | 03:45 | 23 July 2008

Old Mutual has had to pay the price for misjudging its variable annuity costs in the US. What are the implications of the same thing happening to UK insurers?

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FSCS pay hikes touch a raw nerve

| By Richard Harris | 12:01 | 22 July 2008

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme is good for business – so is it right to complain about double-digit pay rises for its directors?

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Equitable shows how regulators must tell it like it is

| By Gavin Lumsden | 12:09 | 21 July 2008

Should regulators be more forthcoming when companies are in crisis? Ann Abraham's report into Equitable Life says the FSA could have been a lot more honest about its misgivings over the insurer's solvency.

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UK providers flog bad habits abroad

| By Edward Lander | 03:20 | 18 July 2008

Extra allocation investment products are still big business in other parts of the world despite being demonised as old model in the UK.

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Equitable Life - justice delayed has been justice denied

| By Gavin Lumsden | 10:12 | 17 July 2008

Equitable Life policyholders have spent seven years resenting the lack of a proper inquiry into the collapse of their insurer - now it's the government's turn to regret the delays in justice it caused.

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Who should chair the professionalism working party?

| By Gavin Lumsden | 09:30 | 15 July 2008

Give us your suggestions for who should chair the FSA's expanded professionalism working party.

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Why are there so many crooked mortgage brokers?

| By Edward Lander | 03:23 | 09 July 2008

The mortgage community has had more than its fair share of bad eggs this year. But why?

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Can advisers sell out to an insurance company and remain independent?

| By Edward Lander | 10:50 | 08 July 2008

Has the recent spate of high quality financial planners selling up to insurers drawn a line under questions of independence?

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