Does the protection market have misplaced hopes about how products will fare in the advent of the credit crunch?
For those of us still waiting for an opportunity to get onto the housing ladder, pub conversation of recent years has generally followed a usual pattern with talk talking swidftly from new movies and music to the beyond belief expensiveness of UK property, declarations of moving abroad to buy and, finally, the simultaneously glum and optimistic predictions that the decade long buoyant economy is soon to come crashing down loudly around us. For the protection industry, despite proclaiming the contrary, the credit crunch has the potential to severely hurt providers and advisers. Stripping aw...
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