Group Protection

Professor Nick Bacon of the Cass Business School discusses the mutual gains of protecting employees and enhancing business performance.

Wellness at work: the opportunity for advisers. Lee Thurston, director at Jardine lloyd Thompson, reveals a few hard won tips on selling group protection as an employee benefit.

Over a third (36%) of employees in the UK start the week on Monday morning feeling tired despite the weekend break, with high levels of depression, stress and anxiety.

A total of £1.2bn worth of group risk claims were paid out during 2012, helping over 23,000 UK families to avoid financial distress, research finds.

The introduction of simple protection products is being hampered by divisions among providers, writes John Letizia.

Think Tank Demos recently called for a minimum IP proposal along the lines of pension auto enrolment. John Letizia agrees.

People who are economically inactive due to being temporarily sick or long term sick have the lowest average life satisfaction and the highest average anxiety ratings, highlighting the importance of work to the mental well-being of employees.

Protection and pensions are the most common areas advisers are focusing on with their SME clients in 2013 yet misconceptions still exist around the products; research has found.

If you were designing a product for covering the need for health intervention and prompt appropriate treatment would it look like a classic corporate PMI insurance?

Paul Avis challenges the orthodoxy that automatic enrolment will also boost group protection sales.