Life Insurance – when you are gone

Immortality is no big deal. Just imagine getting up on a Monday morning 52 times a year for the rest of eternity. Really only two advantages of eternal life spring to mind – you could start reading ‘War & Peace’ and know that you would have time to finish it, and you wouldn’t need life insurance. However, as mere mortals, maybe we shouldn’t start on a very long book and we should take out life insurance, because we none of us know just how long we have got.

Not particularly cheerful advice, but very practical. Can you really face the idea of departing this life and leaving behind little more than the memory of you? If you have family or other dependants, it is vital that you provide for their futures especially if you are the main breadwinner. The trauma of the loss would be quite enough for anyone to cope with, without having to worry about how they are going to manage financially, and maybe even contemplate the loss of their home.

So if you haven’t got adequate life cover or perhaps have no life insurance of any sort, you should take action to correct that situation without delay. Perhaps you have considered it and perhaps you have even had a look at what is available, and then put off doing anything about it because there are too many options and it is difficult to know which to opt for. This is absolutely understandable because there are so many variations that anyone could be forgiven for being confused – but procrastination will not put food on the table for your dependents when you are gone.

So you need information. The following is a general guide to what is available, which should enable you to decide more or less which types of cover may be best suited to your needs. The fine detail is avoided because that is best left to the experts, whom you should be able to approach with a rough idea of what you are looking for, and equally important, which types would not be suited to your needs.

Term insurance in one of its forms is likely to meet most needs. Its name indicates that it provides cover for a period which is agreed between the company providing the policy and the insured individual. At the end of that term all cover ceases and there is no cash value remaining. Payment against the policy will usually be in the form of a lump sum on the death of the insured.

There are a variety of different forms of cover available under the umbrella name of term insurance, of which the following are the more usual examples.

Family Income Benefit is one of the best and must have been developed with bereaved families in mind. The death of the policy holder during the term of the insurance releases a tax free sum which will be paid every year right through to the end of the term. Costs for this type are at a minimum because the term during which the payments would be made is constantly reducing.

Level term insurance is very straight forward. It is well suited to covering the capital portion of an ‘interest only’ mortgage, because the value of cover is determined at the outset and is retained for the whole of the term.

A Decreasing Term policy on the other hand is better suited to covering a repayment mortgage, as it decreases in value over the term to nil at the end, effectively shadowing the reducing balance of the mortgage. The premiums are correspondingly low.

An Increasing Term mortgage maintains its value throughout the term by taking the effects of inflation into account, and is best suited to fulfilling a lump sum requirement at a constant value. The premiums are correspondingly high.

Finally it is worthwhile mentioning Whole of Life cover which is not actually term insurance, as the cover provided is effective to the end of the life of the insured person, subject only to the premiums being paid as due. The insured amount, plus the value of any benefits accruing to the investment, is paid out on the death of the insured

The above few examples give a generalised guide to some of the policies which are available, and should allow you to talk to a broker and discuss your needs in detail. It may well be that more than one type of cover will be required to meet all your needs, but find a brokers via the internet (which is an excellent source), and they will provide guidance.

Once settled you can relax, content that you have taken care of your dependents needs, and if you are really adventurous you could start reading ‘War and Peace’!


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Michael Challiner has 15 years experience in financial services marketing at senior level, the last 5 of which specialised in online marketing. Prior to that he spent 15years in advertising with two of the world.
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Training Staff on New Business Software

Many businesses each year bring in new software to help run their business more efficiently and effectively but there are always minor problems along the way. The most common is staff not wanting to see change and also worried they won’t be able to understand the new software put in place.

If you decide to implement new business software you should make sure all your staff understand why you are putting in place new software, the benefits of this and also any important points of what the software package does to help the business. The more you explain the more likely your staff are to understand and enjoy the new training.

There are two different ways in which you can train your staff on new computer software but there is the idea of not training your staff at all and letting them learn the new software themselves but this is just unproductive. Your staff could take weeks maybe even a good few months to learn a new piece of software on their own wasting their time and yours as well as money. If you want to run an efficient business then you will need to always train your staff with new software as well as up to date training when necessary. The more your staff know the more productive they will be in their work.

The two ways in which you can train your staff are as follows:

On-Site Training – this offers you the ability to train multiple staff in a suitable training environment with all the resources needed also at hand. Training lots of people at the same time can work out well sometimes but other times there are a variety of people, some who can pick things up quickly but others who take longer to understand and therefore may struggle getting the hand of the software from this kind of training. Sending a large group of staff to be trained can be costly but also not possible as not everyone can leave the place of work as work needs to be carried out still.

Bespoke Training – this kind of training offers a bespoke service in the way of understanding that different people learn at different speeds and in different ways. The same is for every business has different training requirements for their staff and themselves and this needs to be taken into consideration. If you have a large group of staff who have the same ability and require the same training on a certain area of the business software then this can be arranged. Bespoke training is a good way of getting exactly what training you and your staff require as an individual business. Whatever the training may be from accounting packages to call centre software to customer relationship management software, training can be given. Bespoke training offers you a tailor made solution for your business training needs.

So if you’ve having a new software package implemented in your business or workplace from outsourced, in-house or purchased from a shop you need to train your staff on the new software. Not only will this make the switch over more productive but it will also help your staff welcome the new software if they fully understand the software package and how it will not only help them in doing their work but also how it will help the business become more productive and more competitive within their market.


Jene Pedder is the Webmaster of SynergyTechnology who specialise in Bespoke & On-Site Training.

What is Astute Software?

Astute is a leading software product which varies in size and is able to scale down depending on what the business does and the size of it. One user can use this or an infinite number of users can use it, this all depends on the size of the company. The software can be fully customized to the businesses needs and can have integration with the Internet and eCommerce.

Is today’s competitive market and the speed in which things are changing you need a software package that will help you compete in the market as well as keeping all your data up to date and accurate. You need to be able to analyse data quickly as this can be the success or failure of a project and or job in some businesses.

The functions of Astute provide a flexible, functionally rich and information solutions for your business which is accessed via Microsoft Windows and or by the Internet. Enterprise wide management software packages need to be able to integrate and utilise Internet technologies, this will help make the business successful in their designated market for the future. Not only internal users will use the management system but the company’s customers and suppliers will be able to access this via the Internet if the Internet is integrated. Astute give you all of this and will help you gain maximum functionality and future flexibility.

The Astute Financial Component enables full scalability of an enterprise and also helps complex issues become simple solutions due to the rapidly changing global environment. The features included in Astute provide greater efficiency and improved control of all cash flow. Some of the other features are:

• Multi-dimensional enterprise structure enables flexibility for organisations to develop and grow without being inhibited by their current enterprise hierarchy or system

• Multi-currency features allowing all posting, reporting and analysis by multiple base currencies

• A unified ledger design that ensures all accounts are always up to date and in balance

• Web deployment ensures lower cost of ownership and enhanced customer satisfaction delivering real business advantages

A review about Astute products is that the advantage of it being designed from scratch with the benefit of many man-years experience of other, older, systems. It has been specifically constructed to be flexible, yet intuitive to use.

The Astute Supply Chain Software has been designed to feature a component based system that can be offered to most clients from different areas and different sized companies. The features in the supply chain management software could include customer relationship management capabilities as well as integrating products in the customer relationship management solution.

Astute Financials and Supply Chain can be offered to software developers then onto third party clients at a cost. Astute can revolutionise the way in which enterprise-wide systems are utilised in the marketplace.


Jene Pedder is the webmaster of Synergy Technology specializing in Astute Software .