Mortgages and Life Assurance
Mortgage-market rates and LTV, repayment, interest-only and offset mortgages, term and whole-of-life assurance.
How to prepare for CISI Introduction UK
Study to the syllabus version covering the exam date, learn instrument structures and calculations, then apply the introductory UK regulatory and advice boundaries without importing the deeper UK Financial Regulation unit.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Explain interest-rate and loan-to-value features of the mortgage market.
Exam cue: Identify what repays capital and when.
Concept 2
Compare repayment, interest-only and offset mortgages.
Exam cue: Relate LTV to equity, security and lender risk.
Concept 3
Distinguish term assurance from whole-of-life assurance.
Exam cue: Separate a fixed protection term from lifelong cover.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Assuming an interest-only mortgage has no repayment obligation.
Guardrail: Check roles, ownership, cash-flow direction, units, version dates, protection limits and whether the option claims advice, authorisation or certainty that the facts do not support.
Reversing the LTV ratio.
Guardrail: Check roles, ownership, cash-flow direction, units, version dates, protection limits and whether the option claims advice, authorisation or certainty that the facts do not support.
Treating life assurance as an investment guarantee.
Guardrail: Check roles, ownership, cash-flow direction, units, version dates, protection limits and whether the option claims advice, authorisation or certainty that the facts do not support.
Memory anchors
Loan to value
Mortgage amount divided by the property's value, expressed as a percentage.
Repayment mortgage
A mortgage payment structure that reduces capital and pays interest over the term.
Term assurance
Life cover for a specified term, normally paying only if the insured event occurs during that term.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
What is a repayment mortgage?
What is the main risk of an interest-only mortgage?
Answer all questions to submit.
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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