Category: Equity release

Equity release is one of the few financial services products which can deliver life changing benefits to customers. Just take a look at the case…

The ‘credit crunch’ has been all-encompassing, dominating the news and business agenda since the problems first surfaced in the middle of this year. We may…

Innovation is key to any business, whatever the sector you are talking about. Bill Gates, Richard Branson, James Dyson and Laszlo Josef Biro, among others,…

In my last column I wrote about the Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) scrutiny of the equity release sector and its intentions for further thematic work…

Equity release has come under the microscope recently with both positive and negative coverage. The entry into the market by Prudential, announced this week and…

If you are an intermediary currently involved in the equity release market then you may be forgiven for thinking that the Financial Services Authority (FSA)…

House price inflation has created a generation of people who may have relatively modest incomes, but have an asset that could well have doubled, or…