CI, tax top technical discussions at LIA conference

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IFAs have been urged to encourage their clients to take up more critical illness cover and tax effic...

IFAs have been urged to encourage their clients to take up more critical illness cover and tax efficient investing in today's technical sessions of the LIA's 30th anniversary conference in London. Critical illness premiums are set to start rocketing due to the effects on the insurance industry of last year's terrorist attacks in the US. And the ABI is about to adopt new language on the definitions of cancers and heart attacks that could push premiums up for clients in their mid-40s and older. Nick Kirwan, chairman of the ABI CI working party and head of marketing and produ...

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