Protection
Life cover, critical illness, income protection and business protection advice.
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Where does protection advice most often break down?
Protection recommendations sometimes stall between agreement and implementation. Applications lapse, medical questions cause anxiety, or a client's circumstances change before cover is placed. To…
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What protection education would be most useful?
Protection knowledge across the profession varies widely. Some advisers write protection every week; others rarely touch it. We would like to know where structured education would be genuinely useful…
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How are firms improving protection conversations?
Different firms take very different approaches to protection — from full needs analysis to a brief signpost. There is no single right model, but there are patterns that seem to lead to better outcomes…
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Which protection objections are advisers hearing most often?
Protection remains under-sold across the profession, and the objections advisers hear are broadly familiar — cost, trust in insurers, competing priorities and a belief that cover is not needed. What…
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How are advisers evidencing protection recommendations in practice?
Evidencing a protection recommendation is straightforward in principle and awkward in the details. Client priorities, budgets and non-disclosure risk all have to be reflected in the file in a way that…
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Why does income protection remain the hardest sale?
Income protection is widely described as the most valuable cover for most working clients, and it remains the least frequently written. The gap between professional consensus and actual placement is…
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Is business protection an opportunity most firms are missing?
Business protection is regularly described as underserved, particularly among small companies whose owners have personal cover but nothing arranged for the business itself. This matters because the…
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