Life/Health/Critical illness

LifeSight Pours $1bn of Workers Cash into Climate Transition Schemes

Whether you want to choose greener investments or not, your pension funds are likely to be spent on wind turbines, recycling EV battery packs or closing down coal fired power stations and cleaning up decades […]

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Bain Is Set To Become a Big Player in UK Life Market

The £530m deal which will see Bain take control of LV= Life business, announced late 2020 is reaching the end of the regulatory process. Despite some opposition from MPs and members of LV= who prefer […]

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Life Cover: New Thinking & Flexible Products Are The Way Ahead

Life insurance has been a little bit of a forgotten sector when it comes to tech transformation. It’s been a slow process and many big name insurers still sell Life cover on the fear factor. […]

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Life Market Too Inflexible, Says Dead Happy

Aside from life insurance, there is no other insurance product that keeps consumers tied in for 25 years, with little to no flex to their policy. Phil Zeidler, co-founder of DeadHappy, argues that this outdated approach is leading […]

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L&G Agrees £760m Buy-In With Sanofi

Legal & General Assurance Society Limited (“Legal & General”) today announces that it has agreed a £760 million buy-in with the Sanofi Pension Scheme (“the Scheme”), securing the benefits of c2,900 retirees. Today’s transaction represents […]

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Life Insurance: Who Really Needs It & Why?

Do you need life insurance if you’ve not got kids?  When you consider whether or not you need life insurance, we’ll bet that many search-engine results supply information on how this will provide for your […]

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Is Auto-Enrolment The Solution For The Uninsured?

It’s an interesting question because it’s obvious that the wealthier consumers of the UK can afford all sorts of insurance, but the poor cannot. For decades low paid workers have rightfully shunned private pension schemes, […]