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Traded Endowments Overview Key Features of Traded Endowments Selling an Endowment |
Qu : Should I surrender my endowment back to Selling an endowment ?If your With Profits Endowments Policy is no longer wanted, think before surrendering it back to the life company.Market makers will quote for your with-profits" endowment policy if it is eligible. Market makers can then trade the endowment to waiting buyers who to aquire mid term policies.
If you provide details of your policy to market makers they will determine
whether they are able to make you an offer above your
surrender value. On many policies you can achieve an offer significantly more than the surrender value. Endowment policies need to be traditional with profits endowment policies, at least five years old and with a minimum surrender value of £5000. Why do people surrender or sell with-profit policies?The reasons are varied but are usually attributed to a change in circumstances such as redundancy, divorce or a change in mortgage arrangements. In normal circumstances, it is best to continue with a with-profit endowment to maturity, but for various reasons this often does not happen. It is important for anybody thinking about encashing a policy to consider all options. These are:The Teps MarketEvery year approximately £90 million is lost by people who surrender endowment policies back to the life companies. Most people are not aware that there is a thriving second-hand market in endowment policies and a large number of market makers eager to purchase unwanted with-profit policies to sell on to individual investors or specialist investment funds.TEP Market makers are often prepared to pay a substantially higher price for these policies than the insurance companies endowment surrender values. Somewhat surprisingly however, there can be a large variation in the offers made by the various market makers and therefore people who have made the right decision to sell rather than surrender, may not ultimately achieve the best price unless they make use of a service like ours. Using a Tep BrokerBy submitting basic information on your policy, brokers are able to consider offers and quotations which may and almost certainly will be better than the surrender value of with profits policies.Check the following list to see if your policy will be of interest to the TEP market makers.
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