Our friends at Compass the LGBT Financial Adviser have recently been featured in Money Marketing the leading financial magazine.<\/p>\n
The feature debates the need for specialist Protection advisers in the LGBT Community and of course Compass came out very favorably in this feature …<\/p>\n
These are some of the quotes that were included from their lead financial adviser Chris Morgan<\/strong><\/p>\n “Specialist LGBT advice firm Compass Independent founder and Unusual Risks Mortgage & Insurance Services Chris Morgan campaigned for decades to remove ‘the stigma and hard-line discrimination’ the LGBT community faced from the insurance industry. “It’s been a long process that I’ve been at the forefront of. Insurers don’t discriminate against gay people now. They used to but that ended in 2005,” he says”.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Morgan\u00a0\u00a0has seen a fair number of\u00a0providers with specialist products for\u00a0the LGBT\u00a0community come and go over the years.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n “They don\u2019t last because the products they offer don\u2019t generate the volume they need quickly enough\u00a0for them\u00a0to survive,” he says.\u00a0“In the past the products have generally been pension and investment products which haven’t taken off.”<\/em><\/p>\n “White labelling products as LGBT ‘because they have a few bells and whistles designed to appeal to gay people’\u00a0does not make them\u00a0more suitable than anything else in the wider market, says Morgan”.<\/em><\/p>\n They also quoted some of their recent research into the Insurance needs of the LGBT Community and to be careful if buying Life Insurance to check that you have the best product available from the whole of the market.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n “According to the last survey in 2016 by Compass, 76 per cent of life policies taken out by LGBT people were intended to cover a mortgage – normally 25 years –\u00a0and 24 per cent were taken out to cover families over the long-term – that means possibly children to the age of 21 or 23”.<\/em><\/p>\n “Ten-year term assurance policies appear to be unsuitable for the purpose.\u00a0If a 10-year term\u00a0was the only option in the market it would be something the adviser would have to recommend but there are scores of policy options with a maximum term of 40 or 50 years.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Morgan thinks LGBT customers\u00a0are\u00a0better served by specialist advice rather than specialist products.<\/strong><\/p>\n “By all means seek out specialist financial advice, as the adviser will understand the LGBT\u00a0family unit, relationships,\u00a0financial needs,\u00a0civil partnerships, gay marriage\u00a0and concerns for privacy and discretion around health in relation to\u00a0HIV”. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n “They will have access to the whole market\u00a0and to the very best products\u00a0<\/em>available to meet client need”.<\/em><\/p>\n The full feature article can be read here, including all of the quotes above.<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.moneymarketing.co.uk\/issues\/13-april-2017\/lgbt-clients-need-specialist-protection-advisers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Our sponsors Compass are the UK\u2019s leading Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Financial Advisers, offering advice on Gay Life Assurance, Gay Life Insurance, Gay Mortgages, HIV Life Assurance, HIV Life Insurance, HIV Mortgages.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n They are also the UK\u2019s leading experts at planning Life Assurance and Mortgages for LGBT and Alternative Families and are able to assist LGBT people looking for advice on their Pensions and Investments.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n For more information about these services please contact our sponsors Compass by phone 0845 474 3075. Email\u00a0<\/b><\/em>Enquiries@compassindependent.co.uk<\/b><\/a>\u00a0or visit us online<\/b><\/em>\u00a0at\u00a0<\/i><\/b>www.compassindependent.co.uk<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our friends at Compass the LGBT Financial Adviser have recently been featured in Money Marketing the leading financial magazine. 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