Our resident protection detective, Kevin Carr, runs the rule over five developments in the last month…
1 Up, down, turnaround… The protection market has been all over the place in Q1. Following the much-talked-about ‘G-day’ and taxation changes, some premiums have gone up while some have gone down. Likewise, the volume of protection business being written, and who is writing it, seems equally volatile. I’m told the expected migration of non-protection advisers into protection is gathering pace, which is no bad thing, and that some of the models which primarily existed to switch business around on price are already struggling, which is perhaps no bad thing either. The market will settle ...
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