Bright Grey Joins Clarkson Hill Protection Panel
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Bright Grey, the protection specialist arm of the Royal London Group, announces its appointment to the Clarkson Hill Protection Panel. This brings the number of new narrow panel and multi-tie appointments since the middle of last year to ten.
The Clarkson Hill Group is a national IFA firm, with a head office in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. The Group has over 300 national financial advisers and is one of the top 20 fastest growing financial advice groups in the UK . It aims to increase the number of advisers to over 400 during the next 12 months and to continue that growth year on year.
Bill Moncrieff, Director of Strategy and Development, says:
“We’ve been impressed by Bright Grey’s service model and chose it for a whole range of reasons, including how quickly it gets policies underwritten, its full menu plan and its Helping Hand service which will help us to fulfil our TCF requirements. We feel Bright Grey takes a focused and flexible approach to client relationships, and this reflects our own approach.
“Bright Grey is a welcome addition to our protection panel and we believe this appointment will complement our existing offering, helping to grow our protection sales in the year ahead.”
Andy Peters, Distribution Director at Bright Grey, comments:
“We’re delighted to be joining the Clarkson Hill Protection Panel. We’ll be working very closely with the Group to add value to both our businesses and support their advisers across the UK. It’s a real endorsement of Bright Grey and means we’ve been appointed to ten new narrow panel or multi-ties since the middle of last year. And I’m confident that our protection proposition and service model will help us maintain this growth momentum in the year ahead.”
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For further information please contact:
Bright Grey
Nicki Lundy
Communications Manager
nicki.lundy@brightgrey.com
Tel: 0131 247 1677
The Clarkson Hill Group
Alicia Jennings
Redleaf PR
aj@redleaf.pr.com
Tel: 020 7822 0215
Editors Notes:
About Bright Grey
• Bright Grey’s Menu Protection Plan, aimed at individuals, was launched to the market in March 2003. This includes a choice of life, waiver, critical illness and income protection covers.
• Bright Grey has doubled the size of its face-to-face distribution team over the past year and now has 14 consultants. This is in addition to an office-based team of 13 consultants.
• Photos of Andy Peters and Bill Moncrieff are available.
• Royal London Group is a specialist financial service provider. Its businesses focus on those sectors of the market which value premium propositions, operating through a number of brands:
o Scottish Life - UK pensions market
o Bright Grey - UK protection market
o Scottish Life International - offshore investment markets
o RLAM - fund management
o RLAS - life and pensions administration.
Royal London is one of the stronger life and pension companies in the UK, with a current rating of 7/10 from Cazalet Financial Consulting, and has a particularly strong track record for with profits performance. It is also the largest mutual life and pensions company in the UK with Group funds under management of £30.8bn. Group businesses serve over three million customers and employ 2,640 people. (Figures as at 31 December 2006.)
About The Clarkson Hill Group Plc
• The Clarkson Hill Group Plc began trading in January 2003, and now has over 236 advisers
• It is the 14th largest national IFA in the UK
• The Company listed on AIM (EPIC: CLKH) in February 2006
• There are now over 25,000 clients of a broad range such as high net-worth and other affluent individuals, as well as companies
• The Group provides commission and fee based financial planning services covering Regulated Financial Products, including, life assurance, pension products, collective investment schemes, term assurance, permanent health insurance, medical expenses insurance and mortgages.