Life Insurance

  • LifestyleAOL

    Insurance rip-offs: the car, life, travel and home cover you really don't need

    We all know that some insurance policies are vital: you wouldn't get very far without your car or home insurance. However, some cover is completely pointless, even for the select few it's actually targeted at. Measly payouts, needlessly

    6-min read
  • LifestyleAOL

    January could be the death of you - and your family's finances

    January sees more deaths than any other month, as the result of a combination of the cold (which increases deaths from heart disease), January blues, post-Christmas stress and an odd phenomenon that sees people 'holding on' for the New

    4-min read
  • LifestyleAOL

    The insurance most of us should resolve to have in 2016

    A new year represents an opportunity to address your finances, to reassess your financial priorities and ensure you are getting the most from your money.If you have anyone that relies on your income, whether a spouse or a child, one area that you

    4-min read
  • HealthAOL

    Is UK life expectancy levelling off?

    The continuing increase in life expectancy seen over the past 40 years may be levelling off, experts have warned. According to Continuous Mortality Investigation, the improvement in mortality rates for people over 18 was just 0.3% a year between

    2-min read
  • BusinessAOL

    The average British family revealed

    In the cosy average British family, David and Susan live in their semi-detached, 1930s three-bedroom house with their only child (statistically they only have 0.7% of a child, but let's round up). The couple drive a Ford Focus, have £35,000

    2-min read
  • LifestyleAOL

    People think internet is more important than insurance

    As a nation we value having access to broadband and a mobile phone more than providing our family with financial security. That's according to the Scottish Widows Protection Report, which found that 80% of us consider broadband an essential

    2-min read
  • LifestyleAOL

    The £30,000 life insurance shortfall

    Life insurance is one of the most important forms of protection around, yet many people don't have any cover in place. Even worse, new research has revealed that even if we do have a policy in place, we probably don't have enough

    2-min read