“Protection Guru has developed to complement Elvis, LifeSearch advisers’ e-learning platform, in a highly effective way, keeping us bang up to date and sharpening our focus too. An outstanding addition to our market.”

“The information being collated and shared by ProtectionGuru.co.uk has been an invaluable resource over the last few weeks. Pretty much any information an intermediary needs is available, all in one place. From current underwriting stances, to the insurer’s approach to towards helping people in financial difficulty, it’s all there. Our advisers and customer services teams are accessing this excellent resource on a daily basis. Thank you and keep up the good work!”

“We commend the work of the Protection Guru.  We find this very useful resource and use its features and topics regularly in our staffs monthly CPD.  It is a regular contributor to our professional standards.

What we love is those detail topics and comparisons of insurer products, like fracture cover and underwriting evidence.  The reality is that few brokers have the resources to do such research so having the Protection Guru do it is very helpful.”

Protection Guru is an invaluable resource. I consider it to be the industry’s most comprehensive source of data, insight, provider and product knowledge. It empowers advisers to deliver better outcomes and promote protection with confidence. I can say with certainty that I would be less effective as an adviser without Protection Guru.”

“Definitely great source of information- I still see advisors talking about advising just on cost yet it is only half of the story and Protection Guru is great at providing much more detailed qualitative data to help you research the best solutions and to explain why they are you are recommending them.”

“The Protection Guru summaries you pull together really are exceptionally useful – thanks very much!  There are a lot of us at Beckett reading them and they are very much appreciated.”

“Personally, as Cabinet Office Disability and Access Ambassador for the insurance industry and profession plus Access To Insurance Working Group Chair, I hugely value and welcome the highly innovative one stop information service, professional development and support plus improving client outcomes hub, backed by independent medical expertise, that Protection Guru has developed and made available to intermediaries. The proposition has something for all types of adviser and planner at each stage of the client lifetime journey, adding significant value to specialist and non-specialist intermediary firms alike – This supported with associated discussion groups that enables learning and best practice to be shared. The services provided by the hub individually and collectively greatly aid advisers enter and re-enter the protection market and as a result, it can and does aid improve access to appropriate insurance solutions.

I additionally applaud the team for their horizon scanning, strategic thinking and agile working when the Covid 19 pandemic hit for very quickly appreciating that reinsuer and provider underwriting philosophies and risk appetites would become very fluid plus provider business as usual ability to access medical evidence constrained  with this seeing Protection Gura as a consequence set up its “ all in one place” Covid underwriting microsite that kept and keeps advisory firms up to date with underwriting changes and developments in real time plus proactively updates intermediaries – As Access To Insurance Working Group Chair it’s important to me that the value of this initiative is fully appreciated as it has, and continues, to play a pivotable role in aiding advisers access the best underwriting terms and outcomes for their clients and we should be in no doubt, this service  played a significant role pre Covid19 vaccine roll out in keeping protection insurance accessible to the many.

As one who played a part in the development of the Seven Families initiative and who for 25 years has sought to replicate in the UK the intermediary support provided to US brokers by www.lifehappens.org, I welcome the development of the Protection Guru claims hub which was designed to provide advisers with a single destination to obtain claims statistics, insurer claim processes and claims stories from across the industry to hopefully drive better client conversations and help overcome objections.”

“The spring of 2020 was an extremely challenging time for individuals and businesses the world over.  Our industry was no different.  Providers were having to regularly respond to the pandemic by restricting  underwriting rules and change processes.  It was a hugely challenge for advisers and distributors to keep up with these daily changes in order to offer their customers the correct and appropriate advice.  Protection Guru quickly recognised this need and stepped up to the mark by collating the daily changes throughout the industry, formatting them in an easy to read fashion and then quickly publishing them.  Advisers, providers and indeed many in the industry found this single point of reference invaluable and helped to keep our market buoyant in the most challenging of times.”

“Protection Guru provide an invaluable service to advisers with their regular insights, but where they really stood out for me was in their response to the pandemic through their COVID hub. Keeping up to date with insurer changes was becoming a full time job, so having all this data in one easy to access location was brilliant and allowed advisers to spend more time helping clients and less time asking insurers about their changes. We even linked to the hub from our internal network so advisers could access the data with ease.  And what’s more is that it was provided free of charge to advisers.”

“The COVID19 pandemic has brought waves of change in the insurance industry over the last 12 months, with everyone having to sail the seas of uncertainty in terms of underwriting outcomes due to understandable changes made by insurers. ProtectionGuru have certainly helped advisers understand the new stances of underwriters and the impact this has on client enquiries. Having regular email alerts and a central reference point was fantastic for our team, and we’re very thankful for their efforts in making this possible.”