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IFAs Still Dominate the Life & Pensions Distribution Market in the UK but Bancassurers Have Gained Market Share.


DUBLIN Dublin, city, Republic of Ireland
Dublin, Irish Baile Átha Cliath, county borough (1991 pop. 915,516), Leinster, capital of the Republic of Ireland, on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the Liffey River.
, Ireland Ireland, Irish Eire (âr`ə) [to it are related the poetic Erin and perhaps the Latin Hibernia], island, 32,598 sq mi (84,429 sq km), second largest of the British Isles.  -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c44094) has announced the addition of UK Bancassurance Bancassurance

A French term referring to the selling of insurance through a bank's established distribution channels.

Notes:
The result is a bank that can offer banking, insurance, lending, and investment products to a customer.
 2006 to their offering.

A comprehensive analysis of the UK bancassurance market in 2006, providing a definitive guide to current trends including size, growth, the competitive landscape, and the effects of key issues such as depolarization depolarization /de·po·lar·iza·tion/ (de-po?lahr-i-za´shun)
1. the process or act of neutralizing polarity.

2. in electrophysiology, reversal of the resting potential in excitable cell membranes when stimulated.
, recent regulation, and changes in distribution on the evolving segmentation and future development of the market.

Scope of this title:

* Historic data from the Association of British Insurers (ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother.


(Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system.
) is used to size the market and the main distribution channels in the UK

* Four product categories are examined in particular: single premium life, regular premium life, single premium pension and regular premium pension

* Provides forecasts for distribution, focusing on the proportion of new business that will come through the new multi-tied channels

* Interviews with senior individuals within the bancassurance market underpin in-depth analysis

Highlights of this title:

* IFAs still dominate the life and pensions distribution market in the UK but bancassurers have gained market share

* HBOS HBOS Halifax Bank of Scotland  Group, having responded to depolarization with a gap-filling approach, remains the dominant figure in the UK bancassurance market

* Despite continuing growth in the last three years, the Years, The

the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109]

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 UK bancassurance sector will not pose a significant threat to IFAs in the next five years

Reasons to order your copy:

* Access ourexpertise, detailed analysis, and extensive primary research to gain an insight into the complexities of the current market

* Identify the current changes taking place in the distribution landscape, and the issues and developments facing the bancassurance channel

* Understand the future of the market, and the way in which the bancassurance channel is likely to develop over the next five years

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c44094

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Date:Oct 26, 2006
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