The 25 Champions of Protection: Tom Baigrie

“I’ve been talking truth to power in our market since 1998”

Hemma Visavadia
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COVER profiles 25 of the leading champions of the protection space that have previously or are currently changing the market for the better, as chosen by our advisory board of industry experts.

Tom Baigrie is the founder and chair of LifeSearch, a business that every week helps over 2,000 people protect themselves and their families against the financial catastrophe that death or disability can cause. Baigrie started LifeSearch in 1998 and gave it the name because it searches out the best covers from all the UKs life insurers. What achievement are you most proud of from your career in protection? I migrated to the UK aged 20, you'd call me an economic migrant these days. I couldn't get a proper job, as I had no qualifications or even a National Insurance number, but I cou...

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