The charm of classic cars lies in more than their good looks, writes Tim Collison

Tracker fund investors should hang on and wait for prices to rise, says Isabel Berwick

NORWICH UNION, one of the UK's biggest insurers, sought to remove itself from the shopping lists of Britain's retail banks yesterday when it classed itself as "a predator, not a target".

SUN LIFE, one of the oldest names in the UK life and pensions industry, is to vanish as part of the global rebranding of member companies in the Axa group, with owns 72 per cent of the British assurer.

BRITAIN'S LARGEST life insurer, Prudential, has boosted its acquisition war chest by pounds 500m to pounds 2bn with the sale of its Australian and New Zealand insurance business to Colonial, Australia's second-largest insurance group, for A$1.35bn.

If you have an Internet connection at work, you had better beware of where you do your surfing, and watch what you say in your e-mails.

Homes for the elderly do not come cheap, so it's best to plan ahead, suggests Andy Couchman

Football fans have created a sales boom in TVs and videos. But the warranties with them can be an own goal, Paul Slade warns

EVERY year an estimated 60,000 people surrender their with-profits policies directly back to their life company. Christopher Dobie, of Beale Dobie, one of the leading buyers of second-hand with-profits policies, says: "If only they had been told they could have sold them to a traded endowment market maker. They would have received on average pounds 1,500 more for every pounds 10,000 of the surrender value."

More and more people are turning to private medical insurance. Rachel Fixsen asks why and how much it will cost you

If you were peering into the marketing world from the outside, looking for a brand you thought you might like to make your name on, it is a fair bet that you might choose an expensive motor car, or record label, perhaps even a jeans company, writes Richard Cook. But ask almost any professional what the most rewarding job in marketing is and they'll tell you a different story.

Health and life cover are a difficult sell on-line, writes Stephen Pritchard

As stocks scale new peaks, life companies are cutting back the annual bonuses on their with-profits plans. Nic Cicutti wonders if terminal bonuses can make up the difference

Between 50,000 and 60,000 investors who sell their with-profits plans back to insurers early do better on the TEP market. But life offices seem reluctant to advise their customers of this. Nic Cicutti reports