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Pandemic-driven changes are here to stay

By Susan Yellin | May 28, 2021, 3:31 p.m.

CANADA LIFE | LIMRA | MCKINSEY & COMPANY | CAPCO | FASTTRACK | Life Office Management Association (LOMA) | Distribution | Strategy | Technology | Artificial intelligence | Indemnisation | Claims | COVID19 | Special Report

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Consumers don’t want to go back to the old way of buying insurance and they want their life insurance advisors to back them up on this.

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Life insurance buyers favour “phygital” approach

Pandemic-driven changes are here to stay

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