The golden opportunity for Group Income Protection

"I won’t ever end my advice journey with a client until I’ve talked GIP"

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Lee Thomas, protection consultant at Pangea Life, explains why the protection industry currently has a golden opportunity to promote Group Income Protection to employers as a solution to a host of current economic concerns.

Anyone who works in the protection industry should by now be well on board with the idea that income protection should be the bedrock of any personal protection conversation. However, we all know there's a long road still ahead with only approximately 8% of the working population with income protection. I don't need to make the case for income protection. We all know the risks, the benefits, the fragility of the working population's financial security and the challenges in convincing consumers IP is something they should have. I believe the other agenda that we must be pushing as a...

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