Life
insurance & pensions insurance
Life Insurance and Pensions are products
that protect your income/lifestyle and in some cases your
family, in the event of premature death or even just once
you reach retirement age and are no longer working.
The
following is a list of common life insurance and pension
products:
- Life Insurance - Financial
protection arising from the death or permanent disability
of an insured person.
- Endowments - An
insurance policy by which a stated amount is paid to
the insured after a period of time specified in the signed
contract or to the beneficiaries in case the insured
dies within the time specified.
- Pensions - Regular payments made to people
after they retire from employment because of age or disability,
received from the government under social security or
from private employers and companies.
- Annuities - A form of investment yielding
fixed payments during the holder's lifetime, usually
for a specified number of years and sometimes, in perpetuity
- Investment Funds - A trust or corporation
that invests in securities the funds obtained from the
sale of its own shares and distributes a return to its
shareholders from the income of the securities.
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