Whole of Life

A proposal to aid low income families by speeding up life insurance payments is to be discussed by the ABI.

Legal & General has amended its joint life policies to protect surviving policyholders who would have suffered due to a partner's non-disclosure.

When approaching later life, as term assurance comes to an end, clients do not want to be concerned with either increasing mortgage terms or reevaluating wills in order to avoid inheritance tax issues. By taking out whole of life cover instead, Simon...

It is not surprising that whole of life is unpopular with consumers: the product, which gets more expensive as the policyholder gets older, seems particularly unattractive during a recession. Could it get any worse? Probably not. Peter Carvill asks if...

Whole of life (WOL) rates at Legal & General have been reduced by an average of 6%. Legal & General'...

The whole of life market has been hit with yet another year of poor sales figures, but is there a way that the sector can grow to offer a more up-to-date offering to consumers? Lucy Quinton reports. Click here to download pdf

The chancellor Alistair Darling will today put the Financial Services Authority at the heart of his plans to prevent another Northern Rock style bank collapse, despite criticism of the City watchdog's handling of the crisis by an all-party group of MPs,...

inheritance tax

After another disastrous year for WOL, is there any hope for growth in this market? Lucy Quinton finds out more Click here to download pdf

Zurich's announces its 2007 plans to focus more on products sold through IFAs