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Would you be interested in being involved in a body encompassing all intermediaries, providers, re-insurers and bancassurers, solely for promoting the interests of protection insurance?

Tom Baigrie, Lifesearch Well I have form of course. I led the Consumer Protection Insurance Engagement Campaign (CPIEC) team that united almost all the above for just the purpose in question. But we failed totally to hold together as soon as real money and commitment were required of our coalition members. And, most threateningly to any new effort, the primary reason for that collapse of unity was the totally unaligned nature of the four groups listed in the question. They are competitors firstly, and have widely differing routes to market, many of which intentionally conflict. S...

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