Who we are
About Legal & General Retail
Legal & General Retail helps create brighter financial futures for all our customers. There are about 4,200 of us, and together we cover the savings, protection and retirement needs of about 14 million people through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses. We’re a UK market leader in life insurance, workplace pensions and retirement income.
The retirement side of our business helps our customers plan for and find financial security in their later lives. In 2023 we had record annuity sales of £1.4 billion, providing guaranteed income to more than 12,000 new annuity customers. Lifetime mortgage advances, including Retirement Interest Only mortgages, were £299 million. And we helped over 5 million Workplace Savings policyholders save for retirement.
Our protection businesses help people plan for the unexpected. In 2023, they gave peace of mind to more than 5.5 million UK Retail Protection and 1.5 million US Protection customers, while our Group Protection business served over 1.8 million UK employees. Together they took in about £3.3 billion of gross written premiums. And we paid out a total of 27,042 claims.
Our Mortgage Club is the UK’s largest and longest-running mortgage club. Since 1995, we’ve facilitated £875 billion of mortgages, which includes £103 billion’s worth in 2023. We’re now involved in one in four of all UK mortgages and one in three of all intermediated ones. Our award-winning Surveying Services team and their partner firms help on average 150,000 homebuyers a year with surveys and valuations.
Operationally we’re a centre of technology excellence. We’ve made strategic investments in a range of fast-growing fintech businesses. We’re also working closely with other Legal & General divisions to drive further tech synergies. That will help us maintain our excellent customer service, competitive market positions and business growth through the months and years ahead.
What we do
Retirement and savings
Retail Retirement: We offer a holistic solution across the whole retirement savings and income journey, working both directly with customers and through a wide range of employers.
Home Finance: Since 2015, we’ve helped people over 55 enjoy a more colourful retirement with our Lifetime Mortgages and Retirement Interest Only Mortgage.
Financial Advice: Through it we offer advice on our range of later life mortgages and lending products, helping people find the right retirement lending.
Protection
UK Retail Protection: We’ve sold Life Cover since 1836 and are the UK’s number one individual life insurance provider. We also offer Critical Illness and Income Protection Cover.
UK Group Protection: We offer Group Life, Group Critical Illness and Group Income Protection for companies ranging from 10 person SMEs to corporates employing thousands.
US Protection: Our US companies, Banner Life Insurance Company and William Penn Life insurance Company, have been protecting Americans for more than 70 years.
Mortgage Services
Mortgage Club: We work with new and existing lenders to deliver great products, pricing and criteria, supporting them with a wide range of tools, benefits and events.
Surveying Services: We offer a Digital Home Survey, plus Home Surveys Level 2 and 3, through our 360+ local surveyors. In 2023, What Mortgage Awards judged us “Best Surveying Service”.
Fintech
Our deep market knowledge and extensive network helps our fintech team find and support socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.
Key current investments include:
- theidol, which provides digital development services to several internal teams, annuity comparison services for our customers and comparison technology to UK price comparison websites
- first-time borrower focused mortgage lender Generation Home
- Moneyhub, a provider of open data solutions for the UK financial services market
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