Term Assurance

Direct life has launched a fully comparable buy now life insurance policy, available to advisers through Direct Life's LifeQuote service and direct to the public through Confused.com.

Sun Life Direct is to rebrand as Sun Life, with ambitions to become the UK's leading direct-to-consumer financial services brand.

Around 70% of HIV Life Assurance applications are now being made in connection with a mortgage, according to medical financial advisers Unusual Risks.

Nearly a quarter of HIV positive people now have life insurance.

The perceived value of a protection policy drops after its sale and is leading to lapsed policies, The Syndicate has said.

Consumers could save up to 50% on their life insurance premiums by taking out policies in their forties rather than their fifties, research finds.

HIV Positive people who are taking out HIV Life Assurance in the UK are insuring themselves for a 'fairly low' average sum assured of £134,130, according to research.

The Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Bill has been introduced into the House of Lords, with the majority of the reforms recommended by the Law Society.

Ageas Protect has added family bereavement support to a range of its protection policies.

Broker protection business will rise significantly in the next two months to catch up to a notable lift in the mortgage market, First Complete has said.