Business Protection Awareness: Helping spread the word!

"The SME market consists of nearly 6 million businesses with up to 250 staff each"

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In the second of a series of articles, Business Protected managing director, Nathaniel Lee, looks at how to capitalise on opportunities to discuss business protection among the UK's small to medium employer (SME) market.

Here are some worrying but perhaps not shocking statistics from Legal & General's State of the Nation report: 75% of small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) had not heard of a relevant life plan or executive income protection. Meanwhile, 70% said they would likely cease trading within 24-months of the loss of a key person and 82% of remaining shareholders would use funds from sources other than a policy to fund a share purchase on death of a shareholder. Combine this with the fact that 73% of those with business protection had taken it out after receiving advice and the problem can b...

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