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‘It would be a crime to ignore life insurance’

"It would be a crime to ignore life insurance" was the attention-grabbing headline, published earlier this week by The Sunday Times, accompanied with an image of Walter White from the hit TV series Breaking Bad. Suitably so, because in the series White turned to crime, after being diagnosed with terminal... Read More

3 in 10 of all British SMEs have experienced loss of a key employee due to serious illness

Construction giant Carillion is the latest company to hit the headlines for going into liquidation, with claims that the company is crippled by debts and thousands of jobs are at risk. However, stories like this are not isolated. According to the latest Insolvency Service figures for corporate insolvencies, in the... Read More

How life insurance could help you achieve your New Year resolutions

According to a survey conducted by YouGov in December last year, 1 in 5 Brits intended to make New Year resolutions – 25% of all women surveyed. Although, YouGov also reports that in 2017 a quarter of those who made resolutions failed to keep to any of them! In fact,... Read More

Is your business protected?

Have you ever stopped to think about what might happen to your business if you lost one of your key members of staff? You might already have insured your premises, equipment and stock, but what about the people who play the biggest part in your organisation’s success? For example, if... Read More

Keeping wealth in the family

There are more millionaires than ever before in the UK - only China, the US and Japan have more, according to Coutts. A survey released earlier this year by Boston Consulting Group found that around 821,000 households in the UK are millionaires, with a combined wealth of £6.5 trillion, up... Read More

Company directors are you missing out on this tax-efficient life insurance?

The latest records from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy show that there are 5.5 million private sector businesses in the UK, 1.3 million employing businesses and 4.2 million non-employing businesses. Meaning that 76% of businesses do not employ anyone aside from the owner. The overall business population... Read More

Self-employed workers risk losing money due to lack of personal protection

If you’re self-employed, or thinking about going down that road, the Money Advice Service recommend that you consider your personal insurance options. This is because when you’re self-employed you don’t have an employer to rely on for sick pay - so you need to think about what will happen if... Read More

Protect your biggest asset – your income

If you're one of the 32.14 million people in work in the UK, earning an average weekly wage of around £505 and working an average 37 hours a week, you're probably grateful that you're taking home enough money to pay the mortgage or rent, other household bills and able to... Read More

2 million people in the UK are off work due to long-term sickness

The employment rate (the proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 who are in work) is at its highest since comparable records began in 1971 – there are 32 million of us working. But sadly, 2 million people are not in work due to long-term sickness, according to the... Read More

12 million UK adults suffer hardship due to unexpected ill health or death

Research from Aviva shows, almost a third (31%) of UK adults have experienced temporary or permanent leave from work due to ill health, a cancer diagnosis or even a death of a long-term partner. Sadly, more than three quarters (77%) of these have seen their finances suffer, equivalent to 12.3... Read More

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