Protection

Paul Yates is product strategy director at iPipeline As the UK slowly makes its way out of lockdown, the attention of many businesses has shifted from dealing with the immediate consequences...

Ben Burgess is senior protection adviser at LifeSearch We are all becoming more aware of the economic, logistical, and administrative limitations the pandemic has wrought upon our industry. Simply put, it...

Jeff Woods is campaigns and propositions director at Sesame Bankhall Group As financial advisory firms continue to work through this challenging period, two key actions stand out: retaining and developing new...

Steve Ellis is head of risk and protection at Premier Choice Group If there is one thing for which we are in this business – that of protecting people’s health and...

Mark Graves is chief executive officer of Auxilium Partnership A couple of weeks ago we announced our collaboration with UnderwriteMe, where we’ll offer our member firms access to the Protection Platform. Why...

Andy Philo is director of strategic partnerships at Vitality The lockdown has changed life for us all. We’ve all found new ways of working, socialising and parenting. The coronavirus pandemic –...

Mike Allison is head of protection at Paradigm Mortgage Services Mental Health Week has come and gone; there was, quite rightly, a heightened level of awareness this year as it coincided...

Kevin Carr is chief executive of Protection Review and MD of Carr Consulting It’s just insurance. Home insurance, car insurance, life insurance… It’s all the same. No one likes it, no...

Mike Allison is head of protection at Paradigm Mortgage Services Every day we receive news briefings from the government providing the latest information on coronavirus. We are informed with plenty of...

Jeff Woods is campaigns and propositions director at Sesame Bankhall Group Although the phrase ‘living in unprecedented times’ has been overused, it is unfortunately true. Another common phrase is that a...

Steve Ellis is head of risk and protection at Premier Choice Group We are in strange times, and serious ones. Not only are jobs and finances under threat – even for...

Alisa Wallington is senior product manager at iPipeline Decision-making has never Really been my strong point, but thanks to COVID-19, my life has become one guilt-ridden decision after the other. Have I...

Andy Philo is director of strategic partnerships at Vitality The COVID-19 pandemic has put health, wellness and the value of protection under the spotlight like never before. While March saw a...

Ben Burgess is senior protection adviser at LifeSearch Taking out decreasing life and critical illness cover for the full amount and term of the mortgage is a tried and tested means...

Mike Allison is head of protection at Paradigm Mortgage Services 'Life assurance needs to be sold not bought’ – not at the moment it doesn’t. I am sure that many involved in...

Kevin Carr is chief executive of Protection Review and MD of Carr Consulting Like almost every other part of the economy, coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a huge impact on the protection...

Jeff Woods is campaigns and propositions director at Sesame Bankhall Group As I write this on 25 March, world events are changing by the hour as further announcements are made and...

Charlotte Harrison is product manager at iPipeline I have just bought my first pram. Sorry, not pram - ‘Travel System’. It turned out that this purchase was not the straightforward process I...

Mike Allison is head of protection at Paradigm Mortgage Services It is undoubtable that mortgage advisers in our industry want to do the best for their clients. This isn’t necessarily down to...

Kevin Carr is chief executive of Protection Review and MD of Carr Consulting It’s been a great year for income protection (IP). Thanks to a combination of raised awareness, product innovation...

Mike Allison is head of protection at Paradigm Mortgage Services As we start another year we might be already wondering if we’ve kept those New Year resolutions we set out on...

Steve Ellis is head of risk and protection at Premier Choice Group We are all in the business of debt – mortgage brokers, healthcare intermediaries, IFAs. Hopefully by selling protection, household or...

Jeff Woods is campaigns and propositions director at Sesame Bankhall Group Over recent months we’ve been undertaking a large-scale insight project to gauge our understanding of the protection market from different...

Andy Philo is director strategic partnerships and employee distribution at Vitality It’s still assumed that term life insurance comes top in the hierarchy of protection needs. While a homeowner’s life insurance pay...

Kevin Carr is chief executive of Protection Review and managing director of Carr Consulting & Communications With mental health underwriting becoming ever more topical it’s great to see insurers announcing new...

Mike Allison is head of protection at Paradigm Mortgage Services There has been much discussion recently about access to insurance for people with mental health difficulties and there is still a...

Andy Philo is director strategic partnerships and employee distribution at Vitality  There’s a long-running debate about whether it should be compulsory for people to buy protection when taking out a mortgage....

Charlotte Harrison is product manager at iPipeline I was recently shown an advert online for a homemade canoe. The description read: ‘I built this canoe in 2009 using marine ply, tape...