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08 March 2010
Friends Provident launches new business protection online seminars
Friends Provident is launching three new business protection seminars which will be available to advisers online from 22 March. The three seminars are aimed at advisers who have different levels of business protection knowledge.
The first seminar, 'Getting Started' will help advisers who are new to the market, the second, 'Getting it right' will focus on Friends Provident's business protection services, support and toolkit, and the third seminar, 'Getting Technical' will explore trusts and some of the more technical areas of the business protection market.
Ed Stuart-Brown, head of protection at Friends Provident said:
"This series of seminars will build upon Friends Provident's existing business protection toolkit and support, giving advisers more opportunities to explore and promote this product. It will help them to ask their clients the right questions and make it easier for them to sell business protection.
"With the current climate meaning that the protection market is still tough, offering business protection means that advisers have another string to add to their bow."
The business protection seminars are available for advisers to view from 22 March by visiting the seminar and podcast page on the adviser website.
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Journalists requiring further information should contact:
| Contact name | Company | Contact number |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Timberlake | Friends Provident | 0845 641 7834 |
| Lorna Wiltshire | Friends Provident | 0845 641 7836 |
| Keith Nolan | Friends Provident | 0845 641 7835 |
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Notes to Editors
About Friends Provident:
Friends Provident was originally founded in 1832 to alleviate the hardship of Quaker families facing misfortune. Friends Provident's strategy today is to operate in markets where it can deploy its award-winning strengths in technology and service to gain competitive advantage. Since its demutualisation in 2001, Friends Provident has developed strong offerings in pensions and protection to complement its historic With Profits business, and now prioritises international growth. Friends Provident is fully committed to the principles of the FSA initiative 'Treating Customers Fairly'.
Friends Provident distributes its products through intermediaries in the UK and around the world. Its key business lines in the UK are protection and corporate pensions. Friends Provident International develops competitive savings, investment and pensions products for a broad and diverse range of markets including Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates and Germany.
Friends Provident wholly owns the Luxembourg-based company Lombard, a leading pan-European life assurance company which specialises in the use of life assurance as a wealth management solution for high net-worth investors, and Sesame Bankhall Group, a leading UK supplier of intermediary support services to financial advisers providing services to over 7,500 financial advisers across the UK offering life assurance, mortgages and savings arrangements.
Since 5 November 2009 Friends Provident has been part of the Resolution group of companies.
About Friends Provident Protection Business:
Friends Provident has been writing term assurance since the company's foundation in 1832 and income protection business since 1882.
Our award winning eSelect system offers online underwriting for term assurance, critical illness, income protection and waiver of premium, capable of accepting on ordinary rates or with special terms. The majority of Friends Provident’s new protection business is transacted online. This process allows end-to-end online electronic processing and account servicing ranging from new business quotations to new business tracking.
For more information on Friends Provident including, images, awards, fast facts, presentations, and media contacts please visit the media section at www.friendsprovident.com/media
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