Sell my Endowment: Tips For Selling Your Endowment
To help us get an offer to you as quickly as possible, here are
a few tips that may help when requesting a valuation of your endowment policy.
1. Have your latest bonus statement and policy certificate to hand
To calculate how much we can offer you for your endowment policy we need to know
some information about your policy.
Most of this information will be detailed on your policy certificate and latest bonus
statement so when phoning or requesting an online valuation,
if you can, please have these to hand.
If you cannot locate these we can still value your policy, but it could take a little
longer as we will have to request this information from the life office.
2. Obtain an up to date surrender value for your policy
To value your policy, we need an up-to-date surrender value for your endowment policy.
A surrender value figure can easily be obtained by phoning and requesting it from your
life office.
3. Don't confuse your death benefit and sum assured values
To value your policy we need the correct Sum Assured value of your endowment policy.
However, this is often confused with the policy's death benefit.
The Sum Assured value is the minimum payout the life office will make if you were
to continue paying premiums up until the policy's maturity date.
The death benefit is the payment the life office would make if the policy holder
were to die before
the maturity date of the policy and was still paying premiums. This figure is usually
a lot higher than the Sum Assured.
You can easily tell whether you have the correct Sum Assured value by making a simple
calculation: the Sum Assured will be, in most cases, less than the total value of
the premiums you will pay during the lifetime of the policy.
E.g. If you pay £50 per month and you have a 25 year policy, your sum assured value
will normally be less than £15,000 (£50 x 12 premiums per year x 25 years = £15,000).
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