Partying like it's 1986

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It all began 25 years ago with the launch of the UK's first ever critical illness products by Abbey Life and Allied Dunbar. Scottish Provident's Jennifer Gilchrist looks back on a seminal moment in the history of protection...

As critical illness products celebrate their 25th birthday, Jennifer Gilchrist takes a look ‘back to the future’ of protection "Has the protection industry gone through much of an evolution in the past quarter of a century? Whatever your view, it is clear that the market today is very different from the landscape 25 or so years ago. After all, 1985 was the year that Doc Brown invented time travel, but the question is do we need to go back to the future to fix the protection industry’s present conundrum? Since the 1980s, we’ve had the good times (the growth in the life and critical ...

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