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EUROPEAN REPORT:Creditor Metrics: Consumer Approaches to Payment Protection Insurance in the UKPrice €1,995 Finaccord’s report titled Creditor Metrics: Consumer Approaches to Payment Protection Insurance in the UK offers detailed and unique insights into the behaviour of consumers in the context of insurance that protects the payments linked to their borrowings. Based on a primary survey of UK consumers carried out between June and August 2006, each holding at least one of a mortgage, a personal loan / consumer credit and a credit card, the research provides valuable data describing the extent to which they take out insurance to protect themselves in the event that they are unable to make the payments associated with the loan. In addition to calculating the percentage of borrowers that buys creditor insurance in the UK, with separate sections dedicated to mortgages, personal loans / consumer credit and credit cards, the investigation also clarifies the types of insurance policy that consumers purchase - insurance designed and marketed specifically for protection of payments or other forms of protection policy? Moreover, for each type of loan, it reveals the proportion of borrowers covered for each of the four main risks - death, permanent disability, temporary incapacity and unemployment - and verifies where, how and when the consumer acquired the insurance. Finally, the report measures the degree to which borrowers are satisfied with their insurance and for consumers lacking insurance it investigates why they have chosen to remain uninsured. The market for creditor insurance is of fundamental importance both to banks and other lending institutions and the insurance providers with which they work. Indeed, maximising the results from creditor insurance programs offers the potential for banks to enhance significantly the margins that they achieve from lending to consumers. Meanwhile, insurance companies benefit from the fact that the profitability of creditor insurance is often high in comparison to other forms of insurance. As such, this study and the other titles in the Creditor Metrics series are designed to allow both banks and insurance companies to benchmark their performance in the arena. |
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