The pandemic has put protection centre stage for clients looking to safeguard their financial futures, writes Carl Lamb, but how much is too much? Advisers are best placed to answer that question, he writes
Protection always used to be one of the minor players lurking on the edges of the financial planning stage, but - post-Covid it's beginning to move into the centre stage spotlight. The pandemic has firmly swept away those "it will never happen to me" excuses - we all know someone who was laid low by the virus. The improbability of not being able to work has become an all too real probability. The impossibility of dying before our time has suddenly become a possibility that we actually have to face. This wake-up call is good news for the advice sector. We have been trying to get client...
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