How IP is poised to protect the rental market

New lease of life?

Adam Saville
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Adam Saville explores how advisers, with help of providers, are approaching the rental market

Last year, a survey from Sainsbury's Bank revealed that only a quarter of renters (26%) are likely to have life insurance or critical illness cover (CI), compared to almost half of homeowners. Bearing in mind that income protection (IP) sales still make up less than 50% of CI sales, we expect the figure for renters covered by IP to be significantly less than a quarter. In fact, recent research by Hymans Robertson suggested that only 18% of UK renters believed they had some form of IP in place - even that figure, to us, feels a tad optimistic. The lack of financial protection on risk for renters...

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