St James's Place joins the PDG

To drive better outcomes for customers

Adam Saville
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Essential Insurance also joins the Protection Distribution Group

SJP and Essential Insurance have become the latest firms to join the PDG, the industry body set up in 2016 to help adviser firms drive change in the protection market. Created with the aim to encourage better outcomes for consumers through insurers and intermediaries, over the past three years the group has launched initiatives such as the funeral payment pledge and the PDG claims charter. SJP joins Assured Futures, Cavendish Ware, Cura, Direct Life and Pension Services, Drewberry, Future Proof, Highclere, LifeSearch, LightBlue, London & Country, Roxburgh and Sesame Bankhall Group at ...

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