Wealth advisers and financial planners will be familiar with the "rainy day fund" concept, whereby clients will amass funds as insurance should the worst case scenario happen to them.
However, for SK Wealth Solutions Chartered associate Sonny Kurmi this can be viewed from a different perspective that underlines the importance of having income protection in place. "Ultimately, people look at capital in the bank account as like a rainy day fund. But I look at it as a sunny day fund as well, because ultimately, when we look at their future goals, that money they've got in the bank can be used to achieved that," he explained during a conversation with IPTF co-chair Katie Crook-Davies for this year's Income Protection Awareness Week. "So why when it's a negative situati...
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