Defaqto

Consumers are becoming more confident in shunning specialist financial advice and purchasing financial products online, according to new research.

Defaqto has said it believes short term income protection (IP) products are likely to become the replacement for payment protection insurance (PPI).

Protect has confirmed representatives from the Protection Review, Income Protection Task Force and Defaqto will be speaking at its May meeting.

Defaqto has called the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) ruling to ban gender based pricing as "probably the biggest change to affect the life and protection industry for a long time."

Defaqto believes the onus is on insurers to make the new ABI critical illness (CI) statement of best practice a success.

Defaqto has launched new Star Ratings for short-term income protection.

Ben Heffer provides Paul Robertson with an insight into the workings behind Defaqto and an analysis of the market's future

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With the protection sector dominated by giants of the insurance world, Owain Thomas spoke to Cirencester friendly's Paul Hudson to hear a smaller provider's view

Independent financial research company Defaqto has published an Income Protection review aiming to help advisers deliver customer-centred advice on income protection.