Vicky Churcher: Insurance upcycling

'My reply to Ian Sawyer’s challenge on IP'

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Do we really need to rethink the market? AIG Life's intermediary director asks

Assured Futures' Ian Sawyer quite rightly commented recently that as an industry, we need to increase take-up of income protection, yet we face a challenge as customers often compromise on their buying decisions and choose one product such as critical illness over the other. His suggestion is that combining two types of insurance would go a long way towards helping customers get full protection - and I have to agree. However, my view is we do not necessarily need to rethink the market. As most of us already know, income protection has a great role to play in helping to protect family'...

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