Life insurance

Uncertainty and a large number of options have been highlighted in case studies as a survey by Topcashback shows the majority of consumers are still failing to take out life insurance.

Funeral plan provider Avalon has announced an agreement with SunLife to add a Fixed Monthly Payment option to the three core funeral plans offered to UK customers.

For the fifth consecutive quarter optimism improved among life insurers, amid a rise in profitability and business volumes, research has found.

A new group life brand, Havensrock, insured by Scottish Friendly and distributed by advisers PSHPC, has launched to the market with a proposition recognising that not all industries share the same risk.

Life insurance companies and reinsurers love a bit of jargon, so what is retrocession and how do companies use it? Mick James explains

Ellipse has created a new online nomination of beneficiary facility for members of registered group life schemes enabling employers to set up and run group life cover.

Pre-paid funeral plan sales have hit a new half-year record, the total plans sold in the first six months of 2014 were almost equal to the whole of 2008's sales.

SunLife has launched a Family Life Insurance product, promising simplicity and an intermediary product to follow.

Some 64% of people who have moved up the property ladder in the past five years and have a bigger mortgage as a result, did not review their life insurance; research finds.

Savers could be forced to pay inheritance tax while they are still alive, under a new drive against tax avoidance planned by the government.