Protection IFA LifeSearch has financially protected over 333,000 customers since 1998, unexpectedly split fairly evenly between males and females, with 175,000 men and 158,000 women having taken out advised cover.
LifeSearch has recently released a code of conduct it would like all protection sellers to adhere to. Should there be such a code and what does it say about this market that it should originate from an intermediary rather than a provider?
Lifesearch, has warned against poor industry selling practices and the "laissez faire approach to the quality of distribution" by providers.
Tom Baigrie, managing director at protection specialists, Lifesearch, has unveiled its Protection Sellers Code of Conduct.
Lifesearch will be launching a protection seller's code of conduct proposal at its awards ceremony later today.
Lifesearch has applauded Legal & General's use of subject access requests (SARs) to obtain extra medical data and said it is seeing positive results for clients.
Lifesearch has bucked the trend of declining protection sales with a significant growth in business last year.
With white papers due this year on long-term care (Dilnot Review), sickness absence and also the Treasury's work on simple products, how much explicit help (not just macro changes to benefits and the NHS) would you want the government to give the industry?...
David Child has taken the helm at one of the country's most ambitious adviser firms. Paul Robertson talks to Lifesearch's new managing director
Severity based protection payments have become more common over the year. Phil Jeynes explains why in his overview of 2011