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Who is Richard Proteau?

Richard Proteau has worked in the financial industry all of his professional life.  After earning different financial industry designations such as FLMI, CLU, RHU, and CFP, Richard wrote many articles regarding fiscal laws pertaining to investments and life insurance. His last professional position was as Vice President of sales in the province of Quebec for a large insurance company. He has been a speaker at many industry conferences.

He is currently involved in the financial industry as an advocate for the consumer rights of investors and insurance policy holders. Richard is currently lobbying for changes to regulations to make disclosure of guarantees mandatory for segregated funds when they are replaced by another investment. This is to ensure that segregated fund policyholders are not deprived of billions of dollars in the form of guarantees that would be taken in as profits by insurance companies if the funds are cancelled.

Richard is also working on submitting a report on the commercial practices of insurance companies. The first important conclusion of this report is that insurance companies have monopolized the influence over the decisional process regarding the changes needed to modernize regulations in this industry. The consumer is not represented. In fact, the power of the insurance lobby is so great that it has prevented any meaningful changes in this industry for the last 40 years with the objective of limiting the sophistication of the consumer’s response in relation to toxic financial products these companies have sold.

Insurance companies have also been able to operate outside of the law using the contradictions found in the different provincial regulations . The solution is to have one financial regulator and one set of financial laws.

In reviewing the commercial practices in the financial industry, Richard Proteau will be publishing a full report in 2014 on these commercial practices. This is why he has guarded and protected his independence.

Richard Proteau is also a writer. Having been published in various magazines such as Marketing Options, he just recently published a book on the insurance industry titled “UNRAVELING THE UNIVERSAL LIFE SCAM”.

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https://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebook/unraveling-the-universal-life-scam

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00PR35MEO?*Version*=1&*entries*=0

He has also designed a phone application to calculate the Fair Market Value of life insurance

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calculator.mrfmv1&hl=en