Group life insurance: trusts
Having a trust in place is needed to purchase a group life policy. Aviva provides the options of both a registered master trust and excepted life trusts for your clients.
Our trusts overview outlines the benefits of both options and how each trust is set up. If you’ve got any questions, get in touch with our team – we’re here to help.
Excepted life trust
Whether your clients are new or existing excepted group life policyholders, the excepted life trust is available to them at no extra cost.
With this service, your clients can be sure the correct beneficiaries are identified and that life insurance benefits are paid quickly and efficiently (provided by (“Zedra Governance Ltd” Zedra).
Quicker payments
to beneficiaries
Less administration as no
need to act as trustees
Reduced legal
and tax risk
How your clients can establish an excepted life trust
For an existing policy:
- Download the excepted life trust deed.
- Open the PDF and complete the grey fields in the document (REGNUMBER is the Companies House registration number for the company).
- Indicate the date you wish to start the new trust in the grey date field ‘StartDateofPolicy’ (the trust can’t be backdated, so please use a date in the future).
- Save the PDF, print and sign it.
- Scan the signed document and email it to groupcoveramendments@protection.aviva.com with your policy number.
How to complete the excepted group life trust document
We’ve put together a guide to help you complete the document
Master trust
Maintaining a group life trust and acting as trustees in the event of an employee’s death can be daunting. That’s where professional trustees Zedra come in.
For registered group life assurance schemes this is a single trust which is set up and administered by professional trustees, Zedra. Either new or existing schemes can opt to join the trust at no extra cost. Employers do not need to maintain their own trust or act as trustees in the event of a death, this is done by Zedra.
- There’s no need to wait for HMRC registration
- Employers don’t have to set up a trustee bank account
- Employers don’t need to act as trustees
- Schemes can go on-risk quicker, with no extra forms required
- Trust deed and rules are kept up to date
Master trust literature and support materials
Aviva Protection UK Limited Master Trust deed
A copy of the Aviva Protection UK Limited registered Master Trust deed.
Aviva Protection UK Limited Master Trust FAQs
This document provides a list of questions and answers about the Aviva Protection UK Limited Master Trust.