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No longer considered exotic, the online world is fast becoming the basis for the sale of financial products. David Child gives a few pointers to protection advisers.

Isn’t it funny how mobile phone companies don’t mention voice capability anymore – instead choosing to focus on the integrated ‘sat nav’ application or the ability  to update a Twitter status from the Kalahari Desert? Similarly, the newest PCs and laptops come with built in Skype so, ironically, no typing is even needed when contacting friends or family members. Even some of the smaller life offices and friendly societies – traditionally regarded as being on the trailing edge of e-commerce – now have all-singing, all-dancing extranets. “The times they are a-changing.” Fortunately, the pa...

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