IPAW: Why income protection and why now?

Day one of Income Protection Awareness Week

John Brazier
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The first ever Income Protection Awareness Week is underway and the co-chairs of the IPTF have laid out what it aims to achieve and why now is the right time to take action.

Kicking off a week of online keynotes, panel debates, case studies and presentations, the Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) launched its inaugural Income Protection Awareness Week today (20 September). Introducing the week's content and objectives, the co-chairs of the IPTF explained that the purpose of the awareness week is to raise the profile of the product beyond the protection space by empowering financial advisers to have more conversations with their clients. "This week is about supporting protection advisers to have more IP conversations and ultimately grow the IP market. We...

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