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Protection Review 2012:

This has now been confirmed for July 11th 2012 at the London Landmark Hotel.  Tables and sponsorship opportunities are already being snapped up so please get in touch to reserve your spot.

And here's a quick list of what is keeping us busy at the moment:

- Planning the 2012 conference and dinner

- Writing our annual book

- IFA protection training

- Media protection training

- Awards judging

- Consultancy work in the UK and overseas

- Research & Surveys (inc The Syndicate)

- Writing articles and commenting for the media

- Product reviews

- Technology research

- Putting our monthly e-PR publication together

- And championing the cause for protection wherever we can

If you'd like to know more about any of these areas please do get in touch with anyone at The Protection Review Team

 

Latest Articles

Peter Chadborn ponders the information flow between the top of the tree and front-line distribution

Whenever I’m out and about amongst industry folk and find myself being enticed with a beer or two to share views from the coal-face, I am often amazed at how little the people who I frequently and fondly refer to as the “important decision-makers in the industry” understand…
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Tim Jackson of Unum wonders: “Income Protection for SMEs: an unfilled space for growth?”

January – the month of Janus, the Roman god who had one face on the back of his head looking at the year past, and one face looking forward to the future. For many, it’s the season for introspection, “new year; new you”, and resolving to do things…
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About Protection Review

Protection Review is the definitive review of the UK's multi-billion pound health and protection insurance industry. Protection Review was established in 2003 by its then co-directors Peter Le Beau and Andy Couchman. In 2010 Kevin Carr joined as chief executive. All three are passionate about health and protection insurance
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Sponsors

Working in partnership with the Protection Review:

We work with a number of companies and partners to provide a wide range of sponsorship opportunities, which include our annual awards, dinner, conference, book and research and more. To find out how working together could benefit your business contact us at peter@lebeauvisage.co.uk, kevin@kevincarrconsulting.co.uk or andycouchman@aol.com.

Sponsors
Ageas Protect logo

Ageas Protect (formerly Fortis Life) launched in July 2008 after a gap was identified in the market for two new innovative protection products. YourLife Plan is a flexible protection menu of Term Assurance, Critical Illness, Income Protection and Family Income Benefits. Real Life Cover is made up of seven pre-packaged protection covers, plus the option of unemployment cover, to meet consumers' real working life needs. These products are distributed through Intermediaries.

Capita logo

Capita, the UK’s biggest business process outsourcing company, is the world's leading outsourcing supplier to the life and pensions industry, administering open and closed books of individual life and pensions policies as well as occupational pension schemes. It also provides services for motor, household, pet and dental insurance, amid a broad range of activiites in the financial services sector.

Eames Consulting Group logo

Eames Consulting Group is a provider of executive recruitment solutions to the Insurance, Banking and Professional Services markets, servicing clients in the U.K, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Our vision is to build a global recruitment business which is regarded as a leader in each of our carefully selected fields across each of our chosen geographies.

With offices currently in London and Singapore and with advanced plans to open in Zurich & Hong Kong, we are dedicated to providing our clients and candidates with a global view of the opportunities and the talent within each geography and market.  Our clients choose us as their supplier of choice time and time again because we deliver high quality candidates in less time than our competitors. We have achieved this leading market position due to our reliability, integrity and specialist knowledge and because we take the time to fully understand the needs and drivers of our clients and candidates.

Gen Re logo

Gen Re Life has been transacting life and health business in the UK and Ireland since 1983. We believe that the future success of the industry will depend on our willingness to accept and manage new risks and our desire to find innovative ways of engaging with our customers. We work with our clients to develop tailored solutions to meet their business aspirations.

Legal & General logo

We make financial security easier to achieve for millions of people. Established in 1836, Legal & General are one of the UK’s higher rated companies for financial strength meaning our customers can be confident that we will be there for them when they need us and we'll remain secure even through the difficult times.

At the heart of our business are people who understand real life. When we do business, we do our very best to think about the things that matter to people every day. We do this as the decisions they make today will define their lives tomorrow.

We offer award-winning protection products to help individual customers protect themselves, their families and their homes. Our products help our customers plan for the future, by meeting their protection needs at various key stages of their lives.

Our promise to our customers is to continue to deliver what really matters to them and to help millions of people manage their financial future.

Medicals Direct logo

Medicals Direct was founded in 1994 to provide nurse-based medical examinations for the insurance sector. Since then it has developed a broad range of related services not just for insurance companies but for the wider corporate sector. Current services include medical evidence collection, outsourced underwriting, outsourced claims, rehabilitation, occupational health, independent and regulatory medical examinations and medico-legal reporting. The largest provider of medical screenings to the life insurance industry, Medicals Direct works with most of the country’s leading life insurance providers and processes over 300,000 cases each year.

PartnerRe logo

PartnerRe as a professional life reinsurer covers mortality, morbidity and longevity risks for life insurance companies. Operating on a global basis, team responsibilities are aligned geographically, enabling the strengthening of market knowledge and the forming of strong, lasting business relationships. Based in Dublin, our dedicated UK/Irish life reinsurance team is composed of local market experts with solid experience in the pricing and risk assessment of life business for the UK/Irish life reinsurance marketplace.

RED ARC logo

RED ARC is a care advisory service. We provide information, advice and emotional support to people when they need it most - usually as a result of illness or disability.

Since RED ARC was established in 1998, we have developed a range of services that can either stand-alone or complement 'host' products, typically in the Life, Health and Protection Insurance sectors.

At the heart of the service is the realisation that when people have problems, often unexpectedly, they need guidance on what to do and where to go. This will often involve help navigating 'mainstream' services such as the NHS and Social Services.

These mainstream services invariably involve gaps in care, often in the 'softer' skills like time to talk to the patient concerned about cancer, or the elderly person worried about having to go into a nursing home.

RED ARC's ability to create services that make a difference for the customer means that you can be sure of high levels of utilisation. The value of our service is real, not just perceived.

TCP Lifesystems logo

TCP has over 20 years experience delivering solutions to Life and Pensions companies.  Our purpose is to ensure our clients gain competitive advantage with our business knowledge and by exploiting the latest technology.  TCP's configurable solutions allow the business to be in control and react fast and efficiently to the market's need.

Aviva logo

Aviva UK Health is one of the largest providers of private medical insurance, income protection, occupational health and Group Risk products and services. Our 2.9m customers range from individuals taking our personal policies through to multinational corporations covering 1000's of employees.

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. Whether it be offering expert personal support through our dedicated claims teams that are specially trained to deal with sensitive issues such as cancer, women's health problems and mental health issues, providing the most appropriate treatment for musculoskeletal injuries through our Back-Up service, or aiding customers' rehabilitation and return to work through our income protection and occupational health expertise.

Exeter Family Friendly logo

Exeter Family Friendly are a mutual healthcare insurer established in 1927 with links as far back as 1888. Exeter Family aim to minimise the cost and impact of ill health for their members and their families through an award-winning range of private medical insurance and income protection products.

Hannover Life Re logo

Hannover Life Re (UK) is a leading life and health reassurer in every sense.  We believe in looking at ways to bring the benefits of insurance to an even wider spectrum of individuals with our philosophy of:

  • Access - ensuring we address key distribution challenges by consumer segment touch point
  • Inclusion - endeavouring to spread the benefits of insurance by expanding the scope of coverage to more people
  • Certainty - designing and pricing 'real' insurance products that deliver on their promise

We not only draw on the intellectual capital of the Hannover Group worldwide network but also through extensive market intelligence.  Working in partnerships with the Protection Review supports our approach to innovate and challenge, not just accept the status quo.  Consumer insights and the reasons behind their choices bring a breath of fresh air and fresh thinking, creating opportunities for our clients.
In a constantly changing market, only a truly forward-looking reassurer can keep you ahead of the curve.

NMG Consulting logo

NMG - NMG Consulting is a specialist multinational consultancy focused on the insurance, reinsurance and investment sectors. We deliver a range of services where we believe we can provide the greatest impact and bring expertise across strategy development, research and marketing. NMG Consulting is part of the NMG Group, a global consulting and advisory business – www.nmg-group.com

Pacific Life Re logo

Pacific Life Re is a specialist life reinsurer offering a comprehensive range of reinsurance solutions and support to insurance clients in the UK, Ireland and Asia. We concentrate on technical excellence and proven commercial expertise across all functions to produce a highly effective, multi-disciplined team delivering exceptional service to our clients.

PruProtect logo

We’re an innovative company with considerable financial strength and a real passion for helping people lead a healthier lifestyle. We have the backing of two huge names in the protection market – Prudential and Discovery (a market leading insurer in South Africa).

Prudential’s trusted reputation and Discovery’s creative solutions and first class operations mean PruProtect can offer you innovative products with great service and support.

These two companies have a proven track record of success and innovation in the health insurance market with the award winning PruHealth.

Risk Assured logo

We are a firm of independent financial advisers. We are exclusively focused on the large case market, placing contracts of up to £35 million on individual clients and £100s of millions of cover for our clients each year. Because we are independent, we can place business with whichever insurers are in the market and whatever their appetite for particular risks at any given time. The sums we place gives us access to the best underwriting teams at the best insurance and reinsurance companies.

SCOR logo

Scor SCOR Global Life - SCOR is the world’s 5th largest composite reinsurer.  Our London based team provides market leading support and services for life cover, critical illness, income protection and longevity. We’re committed to raise the profile of our industry ensuring our end customers get fair and good value products that truly serve their needs.

Space01 logo

Space01 is an agency that specialises in designing go-to-market campaigns that drive business revenue for Financial Services brands by enhancing customer journeys within both B2B and D2C sectors. Space01 is particularly astute in digital and online environments, but also works in more traditional offline areas, using a skill set that combines award winning creativity and qualified IFA experience. Space01’s customer base is a mix of Tier One protection, pensions and wealth management providers, plus smaller IFA businesses.