AXA Sun Life has been handed a £500,000 FSA fine for misleading advertisements on two of its products.
The adverts were part of a campaign spanning February 2002 to January 2004, affecting around 200,000 people who purchased one of the two products featured. The FSA found AXA Sun Life's advertisements for the Bonus Cash Builder Plus Plan (BCP) and the Guaranteed Over 50 Plan (GO50) lacked sufficient information about how the product worked or the risks involved. Around 200,000 people are thought to have bought one of the two products between 2002 and 2004, and have therefore been placed at risk of being misled, says the FSA. The BCP is a with-profits endowment assurance policy ensurin...
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