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by Protection Review 29/04/20
Andy Couchman looks at the industry after Covid-19 and opportunities for collaboration. Go onto YouTube and you’ll find a 2015 Bill Gates talk forewarning about coronaviruses. But a quick trawl through the medical dictionaries reveals we have known about coronaviruses for many years before that – indeed the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic that started in 2002 was described in the Collins Dictionary of Medicine as ‘a new coronavirus’. In fact, you have to go back to 1931 to find the first mention of coronaviruses (in chickens in North Dakota, USA) and it wasn’t until the 1960s that the…
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by PR 09/04/20 Press Releases,Latest News
Due to the current Covid-19 situation, we have made the difficult but necessary decision to postpone the 2020 Conference and Awards until later in the year. We understand the event is highly anticipated and that much work has already been carried out, however, the wellbeing and safety of all involved is our priority. NEW DATE: Protection Review 2020 will now take place on Wednesday December 9th at the Landmark Hotel in London – and there will be a festive theme! AWARDS: All votes cast and all entries already submitted will remain VALID, unless companies wish to submit revised entries later…
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by PR 26/03/20 5QI
1. What was the first record/CD you can remember buying? Band Aid – Do they know its Christmas? (obviously the re-release, the original would make me too old) 2. What is your biggest pet hate about the world of financial services? It’s still very male dominated. Whilst things have got so much better over the last few years, I’m still regularly the only female on an industry event dinner table or at an industry social event. Having said that, I do think things are changing. Its great working at AIG where we have a very even male/female split which has…
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by Protection Review 19/02/20
Back in December 2019, we held the third of a series of Summits in association with iPipeline.
iPipeline has long talked about the 4 Ps of protection which they call the:
Perils
Process
Product
Price
At the third summit, we focussed in on “Price” and how we can help people see the value of protection and avoid a focus on the cheapest premium.
We've put together a summary White Paper outlining what the speakers talked about and a summary of the debate that followed. You can download the White Paper by clicking here.
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by PR 04/02/20
Your votes will help decide the shortlists and winners for this year’s awards. Voting is anonymous and you don’t need to vote in all categories, just those which are relevant to your knowledge and experience. The companies and individuals you vote for should exemplify those from our industry who really do put the customer at the centre of their proposition and consistently show that the client is the driving force behind everything they do, whether that is improving the customer experience, paying more claims, product innovation, better technology or more. We pride ourselves on the robustness of our overall judging…
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