Could you pass this '94 CII paper?

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How do you fancy your chances against these sample questions from a 1994 Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) exam?

IFAonline has had a rummage through the archives to give advisers a bit of Thursday fun: 24 multiple-choice questions from paper one (financial services and their regulation) of the Financial Planning Certificate from September 1994. You remember 1994, right? Manchester United FC's ‘Come on You Reds' had just been bumped off the top of the UK music charts by Whigfield's ‘Saturday Night' (bet you can remember the dance moves!), and Tony Blair had just become leader of the Labour Party. These were the days of FIMBRA, ‘best advice', ‘buyer's guides' and ‘company representatives'. They we...

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