Death in Service Arrangements – this is essentially a benefit provided by you to employees whereby you pay the premiums to provide a lump sum (normally worth 3 or 4 times their annual salary) if they die whilst in your employment. Whilst it is an incredible benefit to have, your employees should also understand that the benefit might not meet their total protection requirements in the event of death and that the benefit cannot be assigned to pay off a mortgage. Also, if they leave the company they will no longer be covered.

Group Income Protection products are used as an employee benefit. They provide a replacement income if an employee is absent from work through long-term illness or injury.

Private Medical Insurance - Private medical insurance (PMI) allows you to avoid NHS waiting lists and receive fast-track consultations and private treatment for short-term, curable medical problems. You are treated privately in an NHS hospital or in a private hospital. There are different charges, criteria, and treatment levels for each provider of PMI.

Critical illness insurance, otherwise known as critical illness cover or a dread disease policy, is an insurance product in which the insurer is contracted to typically make a lump sum cash payment if the policyholder is diagnosed with one of the specific illnesses on a predetermined list as part of an insurance.

Share Protection Insurance is a life insurance taken out on the lives of partners or shareholding directors to ensure that a lump sum is available on death, so that the surviving directors/partners have capital to buy the shares back from the deceased's estate.

Partnership Protection sets out the procedures and policies to help you retain control: Agreements, insurance, and trusts can be established to protect the business against the financial implications of a partner's death or serious illness.

The terms corporate finance and corporate financier are also associated with investment banking. The typical role of an investment bank is to evaluate the company's financial needs and raise the appropriate type of capital that best fits those needs. Do you need to raise some capital for business growth?

Key person insurance is simply life insurance on the key person in a business. In a small business, this is usually the owner, the founders or perhaps a key employee or two. These are the people who are crucial to a business--the ones whose absence would sink the company. Is there a key person in your business?