27th February 2003
Evan Owen
Preswylfa
Dyffryn Ardudwy
Gwynedd
LL44 2EH
01341 242625
Gillian Dunn
Corporate Relations
Which?
Dear Gillian
I write to request permission to publish copies of articles published in your Which? Magazines, the months and years are:
December 1977 “Mortgages”
April 1983 “Insurance policies”
February 1984 “Insurance advisers”
March 1984 “Unit Linked Savings plans”
April 1984 “Mortgages”
October 1984 “Investment Linked Life Insurance”
January 1985 “Investment Update”
October 1985 “Insurance”
January 1986 “Where to Put Your Savings”
May 1986 “Mortgages”
January 1988 “Investing Your Money”
August 1998 “The End of Endowments”
Plus a few others.
During my many years as an Independent Financial Adviser I used all your publications for research purposes when recommending mortgage solutions and giving financial advice to my clients, your articles have always been concise and to the point making them easy for the public to understand why I recommended Low Cost Endowments, Term Assurance or Maximum Investment Plans as well as other financial products. Although I also used the research contained in many trade publications it is a fact that Which? Helped me convince many more people to put their faith in the ‘Best Buys’.
I will need to use these articles in my endeavours to defend a multitude of claims as instigated by a website called www.endowmentaction.co.uk , I will also need to place copies on the internet for others to see, these visitors could be clients, IFAs, insurance companies, the press or even the regulators.
If you don’t have copies of these articles I can supply them for your reference.
Yours faithfully
Evan Owen