In Sept 2015 Friends Life and Aviva individual protection businesses joined together.  Over the last 12 months we have been working closely with the new Aviva Protection team, continuing to promote the Friends Life and Aviva propositions through our protection panel and developing a new “best of breed” integrated proposition.

We are delighted to be able to confirm that the new Aviva individual protection proposition is targeted for launch in November and will replace Friends Life Protect Plus and Aviva ALPS on the panel.  The proposition brings together the existing Friends Life and Aviva propositions and builds on them.

Over the next eight weeks we will brief you in more detail on the proposition and the launch timetable to ensure you have everything you need for a smooth transition onto the new proposition. Behind the scenes we are ensuring all the infrastructure is in place for the launch.

At this stage we need to work with you on the following actions:

  • Platform registration – the new combined proposition will be hosted on ALPS, the Aviva protection platform. This is accessed through Aviva-for-Advisers. We need to ensure everyone writing new business is registered on Aviva-for-Advisers.  If you already have existing login details for ALPS you do not need to take any further action. For those of you needing to register please look out for our next communication on how to register with 5 simple steps.
  • You will hear about how your Friends Life Protect Plus and the current Aviva ALPS new business pipelines will be managed.
  • Aviva will be running 15 round table events around the country ahead of launching the proposition. We will provide dates shortly and strongly recommend you reserve a place at your nearest event. You’ll find out all you need to know about the new proposition, the ALPS platform; how to submit business and the underwriting philosophy as well as a guest speaker from Best Doctors.

Your Aviva account manager will also be on hand to answer any questions you may have regarding pre-registration and the ALPS platform.

Martin Wilson, CEO of The Right Mortgage & Protection Network, said: “We are delighted to be able to launch the new Aviva Individual Protection Proposition to our members. It offers the best of both Aviva and Friends Life products and will help our advisers to better meet their clients’ needs”