IFAs as well as representatives from protection product providers, charities, trade and consumer bodies and charities will meet at a special event next month to formulate an industry-wide response to the ABI's critical illness consultation.
The forum is being held in London on 14 November as two workshops – content of which has yet to be finalised – to assess how products could be designed in the future and what claims should be based upon. Organiser behind the event is IFA Robert Reid, who is managing director of Syndaxi Financial Planning and vice president of the Personal Finance Society, as he helped to create a similar event in 1998 which pension experts gathered to discuss government proposals for stakeholder pensions. Findings of the gathering will be compiled and presented in a report to the ABI’s Critical Illnes...
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