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With a passion for promoting advice and doing right by consumers, Tom Baigrie talks to Angela Faherty about the protection market

Arriving in the UK at the tender age of 20, South African born Tom Baigrie had the world of protection at his feet. Today, 24 years later, he is a respected expert in his field. It was while working as an independent financial adviser addressing the protection needs of high net worth clients in the late 90s, that Baigrie realised the market was missing a trick. Aware of an opening for an advisory firm that would reach the whole market rather than only those rich enough to pay fees, Baigrie set out to create a service that offered advice from a low-cost operational base. The result was...

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