At Your Service Underwriting, Service & Support · nominated underwriter •Pre planning service...
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At Your Service Underwriting, Service & Support Bernie Mahon Strategic Partner Specialist Zurich Intermediary Group
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This presentation is provided to you by Zurich Intermediary Group
in your capacity as a financial services industry professional. It must not be made available or copied or otherwise quoted or referred to in whole or in part in any way, including orally, to any person without our express written permission, which we
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We accept no duty or responsibility, and we disclaim all liability whether in contract, tort (including negligence) in respect of this material but this sentence does not exclude any liability
which by law cannot be excluded.
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Agenda
• Underwriting • Product Features
• Guaranteed Insurability Options • Indexation • Convertible Term Assurance
• Zurich’s Support Service
• The Business Protection
Adviser Tool
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Business Provider of The Year
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2013
2009
2010
2011
2012
(Source 37, 61: Zurich Awards website, Whole of life reasons why)
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Underwriting
Pre-App 0870
243 0901
Rated/ Declined
elsewhere
Own Dr Medicals
Financial Q - £2m Life /800k CI
No Aggregation
of sums assured
No 25% Loadings for
life cover
Large Case Team -
£1m or £250pm
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Large case underwriting
• £1m+ sum assured / £250 pm
• 24 hour turnaround
• Dedicated service from a nominated underwriter
• Pre planning service
• Discuss terms with the underwriter post decision
• Saving you and your clients time and money For intermediary use only – not for use with your clients
Underwriting Decisions 2013
80% Standard
3% Declined
61%Decisions 2 days or less
63% Lives No
Evidence
(Source 38&38a: Zurich Underwriting MI 2013)
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• Height / weight - build
• Diabetes – possibly offer CI to non-smoking Type 2 sufferers
• Family history
• Raised blood pressure & cholesterol
• Asthma
• Epilepsy
• Gout
• Crohn’s disease
• Anxiety / depression
For further information refer to – Medical Conditions guide – www.zurichintermediary.co.uk – Pre Application Underwriting team (Source 33&33a: Zurich Underwriting September 2013)
Improvements to underwriting philosophy
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Medical underwriting limits - life
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Financial underwriting limits
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Income Multipliers are applicable for the Relevant Life Plan Trust
Business protection sums assured
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Valuing a company
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Medical condition guide
• Covers 22 of the most common medical disclosures
• Tells you the likely underwriting decision
• Helps you to manage client expectations
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Condition: Build
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BMI Calculator
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Condition: Build continued
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Fixed or interactive questions
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GP look up facility
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• Increase original sum assured by up to 50%
• Maximum increase £150,000
• No medical underwriting
• Business Protection
– Increase in profits – Increase in value of shares – Increase in business loan (£250k)
Guaranteed Insurability options
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2nd 2nd
• Childbirth • Marriage • Increase in mortgage • Civil Partnership • Adoption • Salary Increase • Divorce
(Source34: Level Protection Plan T&Cs)
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Indexation
• Available at outset
• Increase sum assured by: 5%,10%, AEI or RPI
• No medical underwriting
• No additional premium at outset
(Source34: Level Protection Plan T&Cs)
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Convertible Term Assurance
• Convert to Whole of Life
• Joint Life First Death / Joint Life Second Death
• Maximum age to convert (oldest person): Single life 83 JLFD 69 JLSD 83
• Partial conversions allowed
(Source: 34: Zurich’s Level Protection Plan T&Cs)
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Zurich’s support service Offering more than financial cover
Zurich’s support service is available to … • Your clients and their families • Bound by professional standards of confidentiality and disclosure of information • Staffed by fully experienced advisers
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• Easy to complete
• Potential beneficiaries are the surviving shareholders
• Takes account of changes
- in shareholders - company name - business entity
• Allows the exclusion of shareholders from the
arrangement - uninsurable
- investor shareholders
Flexible Business Trust Deed
Option agreement
• Legally binding agreement
• Options for the personal representatives of the deceased and the surviving shareholders
• Ability to select market value or specified price
• Transaction must take place if either party exercises their option
• If both parties agree, nothing has to happen
• Retains Business Property Relief at 100% where available
Option to sell
Option to buy
Relevant proportions
Price to be paid
Insurance policies & trusts
Sum assured less or greater than agreed value
Retention of business
Effect of the agreement
The Business Protection Adviser Tool
• Download from: www.zurichintermediary.co.uk
• Logical and structured method to demonstrate business protection solutions
• Create a needs summary
• Calculate sums assured
• Produce a client report or use as an audit trail for your records
• Comprehensive literature library
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Plan Summary is available for each Life Assured
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Any questions?
Please keep in touch
Email – [email protected] Website – www.zurichintermediary.co.uk Zurich switchboard – FreePhone 0500 546 546
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Important information
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in your capacity as a financial services industry professional. It must not be made available or copied or otherwise quoted or referred to in whole or in part in any way, including orally, to any person without our express written permission, which we
may, at our absolute discretion, grant or withhold or grant subject to conditions, including conditions as to our
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We accept no duty or responsibility, and we disclaim all liability whether in contract, tort (including negligence) in respect of this material but this sentence does not exclude any liability
which by law cannot be excluded.
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Thank you for listening
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Important information Any tax and legislation information is based on Zurich’s current understanding
and may change in the future
Protection is provided by Zurich Assurance Ltd.
Zurich Assurance Ltd. Registered in England and Wales under company number 02456671. Registered Office: The Grange, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, GL52 8XX.
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Registered Office: The Grange, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, GL52 8XX. Telephone - 0500 546 546.
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