Interview - Andy Couchman

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COVER interviews one of the insurance industry's back-room boys - Paul Robertson talks to Andy Couchman

Although he is not necessarily known to many IFAs, Andy Couchman has a finger in many pies affecting them. Actually, he probably has more pies than fingers. His business, Bankhouse Communications, falls into three areas. Part of it is pure consultancy, part of it is writing and part of it is publishing, through the Protection Review for example. The writing is varied. For example, for those IFAs who have taken, or are taking, the Chartered Insurance Institute’s PMI examination IF7, well, your coursework was written by Couchman. He has also written another CII book and a lot of t...

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