Take a look at Mental Health Awareness Week Blogs & Videos
As part of the Mental Health Foundation’s 2021 Mental Health Awareness Week, they’ve collected a range of blogs, and videos that highlight the real benefits of connecting with nature, by a group of people who have already experienced what it’s like to get out into the great outdoors. You can access these resources by clicking […]
Register for Canada Life’s live mental health webinar
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week hosted by the Mental Health Foundation. To show their support, Canada Life are running a live mental health toolkit webinar on Thursday 13 May at 10am. It’s estimated that up to 10 million people in England will require new or additional mental health support as a result of the […]
Top tips on connecting with nature to improve your mental health
According to The Mental Health Foundation, There’s a lot of good research to support the role nature can play in protecting and supporting our mental health. For many of us though, ‘being in nature’ may not be as easy as it sounds. The good news is, you don’t have to climb a mountain to […]
Great tips from Royal London on how to look after your mental health
When you consider or take out life insurance, you might think more about the importance of being healthy. But taking care of yourself isn’t all about physical health – your mental health is important too. Around one in four people in the UK have a mental health problem each year, according to Mind, with worries […]
Mortgage Product Update 12/5/2021
The following updates were completed and are live in SOURCE today: Accord Accord have withdrawn a 5 year fixed product at 3.89% with a max LTV of 95%, and have launched 2 year fixed products with a max LTV of 95% under their new business Residential range. Bespoke by BOI Bespoke by BOI has made […]
Ignore what technology can provide at your peril
In the mortgage market, I was brought up with a completely manual process, physical application forms, sending and receiving supporting documents by post and don’t let me bore you about how we went about sourcing mortgages! The amount of real paperwork was staggering. Many advisers practicing today have no conception of working without a computer, […]
Safety in numbers – the case for networks in an uncertain world
If there is one thing we have learned in the past 12 months it is that we all need the comfort of knowing that there is support around us when we need it. Support comes in many ways and might, for some, be as simple as knowing there is a business partner who appreciates the […]
Legal & General partners with HLPartnership on SmartrCriteria
Legal & General has worked with mortgage and protection network HLPartnership to simplify access for advisers using SmartrCriteria and SmartrFit search tools. The mortgage club says brokers will “benefit from a streamlined connection directly between the two providers” without “having to sign in multiple times” or “juggle numerous windows or tabs”. Legal & General announced […]
Government Outlines The Mortgage Guarantee Scheme
The Government has announced a new mortgage guarantee scheme to support a new generation in realising the dream of home ownership. This will increase the availability of 95% Loan-to-value mortgage products, enabling more households to access mortgages without the need for prohibitively large deposits. A number of the UK’s largest lenders including Lloyds, NatWest, Santander […]
Checking the checklist
So many of us are working from home at the moment, but I wanted to highlight the intermediary sector, and especially advisers who are working alone. Working from a home office can be a lonely business at the best of times. In a lockdown, when house calls to customers are off the menu along with […]