How to choose the 'best' critical illness plan

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CIExpert's Alan Lakey discusses how to choose the 'best' critical illness plan.

Readers will be relieved to know that unlike like hordes of extremely irritating people I'm not beginning a sentence with "so".  Every adviser has a view or a process regarding critical illness plan selection and whilst there may not be a single right method of doing this there are certainly a number of incorrect furrows that are currently being ploughed. Below is a list of the methodologies in use:  i.              Using the cheapest provider. ii.             Selecting the provider with the highest number of conditions included. iii.            Counting ABI+ condition number...

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