Defending the cause

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A poorly thought out aspect of the retail Distribution Review as it stands is its effect on Holloway products. Paul Hudson explains

By the time you read this, we may be living our lives under a Conservative government, or perhaps Labour hung in there. Who knows, maybe the Liberal Democrats pulled a Government out of the bag at the last minute? But whichever route the voting public took, we would still have an uncertain future ahead of us which includes an evolving review of regulation in financial services, albeit by a regulator operating under a new name. For a Holloway Income Protection (IP) provider, the future is challenging, whatever colour sits in Downing Street. Niche providers will continue to bang the drum b...

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