Expert insight, analysis and commentary across the entire protection industry.
by ProtectionReview 10/03/16 Category: 5QI
What was the first record you can remember buying? In the City, The Jam What is your biggest pet hate about the world of financial services? We are too internally focused. We don’t look out enough at what our customers’ want and need. We are at fault of designing products for the industry first. What is your favourite film, and why? The Godfather II, it is a masterpiece, an epic story about Family and business. Many life lessons in the film, although I wouldn’t recommend applying them all to the workplace! What car do you drive? BMW X5 If you could change one…
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by ProtectionReview 29/02/16 Latest News
The voting for this year's awards has now closed. We will announce the shortlists soon. There are categories for advisers, insurers, reinsurers, tech firms and more - and your votes will help decide the shortlists. List of categories and previous winners Innovation Award (LAST YEAR’S WINNER: UnderwriteMe) Life & Health Claims Award (New category) ** Submission required ** Individual Protection Adviser of the Year (LAST YEAR’S WINNER: Roy McLoughlin, Master Adviser) Organisation of the Year (LAST YEAR’S WINNER: Vitality) Best New Product of the Year (New category) Health Insurance Adviser of the Year (company) (LAST YEAR’S WINNER: Regency Health) Protection…
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by ProtectionReview 28/01/16 Polls
Poll Results
In our last poll we asked "Data suggests a significant decline in the Accelerated CI market. Why is this?". The results were close with a narrow majority suggesting that the changes in the distribution mix were responsible for the decline, followed by the price being too high.
Current poll
In our latest poll we ask:
"Will E-signatures have a positive impact on protection sales?"
Click here to take part in the poll and check back here soon to see the results.
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by ProtectionReview 28/01/16
When an industry is undergoing dramatic and fundamental changes, it isn’t always obvious for those caught up in the middle of things. However that definitely isn’t the case when it comes to robo-advice. The ‘machines’ have been hogging the headlines in the trade press for many months now, though it is probably fair to say that most of the debate and most of the attention has been focused on pensions and investments and particularly on helping people make the correct decisions about their pension income. In other words, protection has been a little overlooked. So does this mean the robots…
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by ProtectionReview 20/01/16
Advisers regularly ask me…How do I raise protection need with not just my new but also my existing clients?, what support material can I use?...Whilst the Government’s welfare reform agenda has thus far not featured too highly on intermediaries’ agenda for discussion with clients, the changes to Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) benefit give reason to have a mortgage resilience and appropriate financial resilience discussion with all mortgage clients both old and new. Plus, the education material from the Seven Families project www.7families.co.uk can bring need to life as a number of the families featured discuss the mortgage issues and…
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