This edition of Teachers’ Money Matters is packed full of news. Our new Guaranteed Growth Bond is now on sale, there are new videos to watch on our YouTube channel and our Home Insurance has received a Defaqto 5 Star Rating for the second year running.
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Harry Blamire, Editor – Teachers’ Money Matters
New software to make your experience even better
At Teachers Assurance, we pride ourselves on offering you the best possible customer service when you speak to us over the telephone. To help us improve our service even further, we have invested in developments to our call centre technology. We believe the new software will not only make us more efficient; our customers will benefit from these improvements too.
The new software will match your phone number to your details in our system. This will mean we will have everything about your account on screen as we pick up the phone, meaning we can help you more quickly.
We understand not everyone wants to deal with us via the telephone. The new system will receive your emails and handle them just like an inbound call. This means we can reply just as quickly as if you had called us to ask a question.
Over the next few months, all of our Customer Support teams will be using the new system so please give us a call to ‘try us out’!
Let Teachers SHINE
Teachers Assurance, with the support of Teachers Group Educational Trust (TGET), has pledged £50,000 to the Let Teachers SHINE initiative.
Let Teachers SHINE is an annual competition for innovative ideas to raise attainment amongst disadvantaged students. Winning proposals have involved the innovative use of
technology or exciting after-school programmes. They also include unique teaching activities for groups or for individual students.
Keep an eye out for more information in the TES, as well as on our website and social media pages
The new Guaranteed Growth Bond: Now on sale
With inflation rates eroding the real value of cash and interest rates at a low level, we understand investors are unsure where to put their money for growth.
Our ten year fixed-term Guaranteed Growth Bond offers you the prospect of uncapped stock market growth, with four tiers of guaranteed return as an important safeguard if things don’t go to plan.
This Bond is a great opportunity to generate a real profit from your stock market investment.
Your money is largely invested in equities and your potential capital growth is uncapped
Invest from £2,500 up to £25,000 (or £50,000 with a partner) for a fixed ten year term
At the end of the term, the minimum you will get back is your original investment in full, plus up to 25% of the amount you invested.
We’ll send you up to £200 M&S vouchers as a thank you for investing with us.
After charges, your money is used to buy units. Units can go up and down in value, depending on the underlying assets in the fund. Therefore your investment value can go down as well as up during the term. If you cash in early, you may not get back what you paid in. Inflation will reduce what you can buy with your money in the future. Your M&S vouchers will be sent 35 days after receipt of your investment.
Visit teachersassurance.co.uk/GGB for more information or call 0800 056 0563 to speak to someone
There’s still time to invest!
Have you taken advantage of your annual ISA allowance yet? There’s still time: invest your money (up to £11,520), before midnight on the 5th April 2014, to take advantage of tax-efficient savings. The ISA allowance for 2014-15 is increasing to £11,880.
Home Insurance with help on call
With all the terrible weather we’ve had recently, it might be a good idea to check if your home insurance includes home emergency cover as standard.
Those insured with Teachers Assurance can be reassured that following a call to our 24 hour helpline, everything will be taken care of.
What’s more, our dedicated team of claims handlers, who have a total of 21 years’ experience between them, work hard behind the scenes to process all claims as quickly as possible, and to ensure that our customers’ homes are safely restored.
For the second year running, our Home Insurance policy has earned a Defaqto 5 Star Rating.
Annual discounts for teachers
Quality, comprehensive cover for your home and belongings
Up to £30 M&S vouchers as a thank you for insuring your home with us
Request a quote or give us your renewal dates by 10th June 2014 and you could win an iPad Air*
For your personalised quote or to insure your home with us, call 0800 378 722 today.
Home Emergency cover applies to both buildings and contents policies but not let properties, second homes or if you are a tenant. If your home is unoccupied, the Home Emergency cover only applies to the first 30 consecutive days. *Terms and conditions for the prize draw are available here.
Come to a retirement planning seminar
If you have retired recently (or are retiring during this academic year), you may be interested in our programme of retirement seminars. These new workshop sessions are designed to help retirees create personalised budget and investment plans.
By the end of the session, attendees should have enough information to decide where to invest a lump sum and to budget to get the most out of their retirement income.
After the workshop, we’ll arrange for a dedicated Customer Support Officer to call you at home, talk through your investment options and provide you with information to help you make rewarding financial decisions.
We have a series of seminars planned across the country in March. To book your place or register your interest for future events, please visit teachersassurance.co.uk/seminars
The Education Show 2014
From the 20th to 22nd March, Teachers Assurance will attend The Education Show at the NEC in Birmingham. For three days, delegates are able to visit our stand, ask us about our
range of savings, investments and insurance and learn where to access more information to help with financial planning.
If you’re attending the show, please come along to say hello. Our stand is C60. We’ll be running a daily prize draw to win a Kindle Fire, as well as giving away free pens, tote bags and literature.
New videos
We’re adding two new videos to our YouTube channel.
Watch Lesley and Dan as they talk you through the risks and rewards of investing in our new Guaranteed Growth Bond. We also filmed a second video with Jenny and Kristi from our Home Insurance team, talking about the benefits of our 5 Star Home Insurance.
Both clips will be online to watch in March. Visit youtube.com/teachersassurance
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