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AXA life insurance: what happened and who looks after policies now

What happened to AXA’s UK life insurance business, who now looks after AXA, AXA Sun Life and Sun Life Direct policies, and how to contact them or claim.

Sells life insurance
No
AXA UK sells general and health insurance
Guaranteed Over 50 Plans
SunLife
Phoenix Life Limited trades as SunLife
Other AXA Sun Life plc policies
Aviva
Aviva Life & Pensions UK since 2017

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The AXA Assurance office building in Coventry, with the AXA logo near the top of the tower
The AXA Assurance building in Coventry, photographed in December 2013.

In a nutshell

AXA no longer sells life insurance in the UK. It sold its UK life businesses in 2010 and 2016. Policies that stayed with AXA Sun Life plc are now with Aviva. AXA Sun Life plc’s Guaranteed Over 50 Plans moved to AXA Wealth Limited in 2011. Those plans, and the policies AXA Wealth sold under the Sun Life Direct name, are now with Phoenix Life Limited, which trades as SunLife.

  • AXA UK’s own product list covers car, home, business, landlord, van, health and travel insurance, not life insurance.
  • In 2010 AXA sold its UK traditional life and pensions, IFA protection, corporate pension and annuity businesses to Resolution Ltd. Aviva says the majority of AXA’s UK life business became part of Friends Life, which Aviva acquired in 2015.
  • AXA Sun Life plc’s remaining policies moved through Friends Life companies to Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited on 1 October 2017. Aviva has AXA phone lines matched to your policy number.
  • AXA’s direct protection business, SunLife (called Sun Life Direct until 2014), was sold to Phoenix Group Holdings in 2016. AXA Wealth Limited’s long-term business transferred to Phoenix Life Limited with effect from 30 September 2017.
  • For a claim, use the Aviva or SunLife details in “Contacting Aviva or SunLife” below.

Who are AXA?

AXA UK describes itself as one of the UK’s leading insurance companies, looking after customers’ insurance needs across car, home, health and business.

UK head office company
AXA UK PLC (company number 02937724)
Registered office
20 Gracechurch Street, London, EC3V 0BG
UK insurer today
AXA Insurance UK Plc, non-life insurer (Financial Services Register 202312)
Sells today
Car, home, business, landlord, van, health and travel insurance
Former life insurer
AXA Sun Life plc (company 03291349, now Friends Life Company Limited)

Its UK head office company, AXA UK PLC (company number 02937724), is registered at 20 Gracechurch Street, London. Companies House shows it was called Sun Life and Provincial Holdings Plc from 1996 to 2000.

AXA’s car, home, landlord, business and van insurance is underwritten by AXA Insurance UK Plc, which Companies House lists as a non-life insurer.

Aviva says Sun Life Assurance was acquired by the AXA Group in 1997. On 1 April 2001 AXA Sun Life plc took over the business of AXA Equity and Law Life Assurance Society plc. In 2009 AXA Sun Life plc was the insurer behind AXA life policies such as the AXA Protection Account and the Guaranteed Over 50 Plan.

What AXA used to sell. In 2009 AXA Sun Life plc provided the AXA Protection Account, a range of protection covers recommended by a financial adviser. It offered life cover, critical illness cover, life or earlier critical illness cover, income protection, mortgage income protection and payment protection cover.

Its Life Cover paid a lump sum on death, or on meeting AXA Sun Life plc’s definition of terminal illness, on or before the cover end date. It was for people aged 18 to 83 when cover started, for fixed terms of 1 to 40 years ending on or before their 85th birthday.

In 2009 AXA Sun Life plc also provided the Guaranteed Over 50 Plan under the Sun Life Direct name. It was life cover designed to leave a cash sum on death, with guaranteed acceptance for people aged 50 to 85.

In 2011 Sun Life Direct, then a trading name of AXA Wealth Ltd, also sold Sun Life Insurance. This was a life insurance policy for a fixed term, for people aged 18 to 59 at the start date.

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What happened to AXA life insurance?

AXA sold its UK life insurance business in two stages, in 2010 and 2016, and AXA UK no longer sells life cover.

2010: sale to Resolution. On 24 June 2010 AXA agreed to sell its UK traditional life and pensions, IFA protection, corporate pension and annuity businesses to Resolution Ltd for £2.75 billion. The sale was completed on 15 September 2010. AXA said it would keep its UK wealth management operations and its AXA Direct Protection business.

Aviva says Friends Life was formed in 2011 from Friends Provident, the majority of AXA’s UK life business and Bupa Health Assurance. Aviva acquired it in April 2015.

AXA Sun Life plc was renamed Friends Life Company Limited in 2011. Under Part VII schemes, most of its long-term business moved to Friends Life Limited on 28 December 2012. Its remaining long-term business moved to Friends Life and Pensions Limited on 28 December 2013.

On 1 October 2017 the long-term business of Friends Life Limited and of Friends Life and Pensions Limited moved to Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited.

Some plans came back to AXA. As part of the 2010 sale it was agreed that certain policies would be transferred back to AXA during 2011. The application to the High Court covered certain guaranteed over fifty plans, EasyCover plans, funeral plans and corporate trustee investment plans.

AXA Wealth Limited began writing new Guaranteed Over 50 business on 1 January 2011. On 1 November 2011, following Court approval, Friends Life Company Limited’s Guaranteed Over 50 plan products and corporate trustee investment plan products were transferred to AXA Wealth Limited.

2016: sale to Phoenix. On 27 May 2016 AXA agreed to sell its UK (non-platform) investment and pensions business and its direct protection business, SunLife, to Phoenix Group Holdings. The sale was completed on 1 November 2016. AXA’s UK property and casualty, health and asset management operations were not part of it.

AXA Wealth Limited and Phoenix Life Limited then applied to the High Court to transfer the entire business of AXA Wealth Limited to Phoenix Life Limited. Before the transfer, AXA Wealth’s principal activity was unit-linked pensions and Guaranteed Over 50 life plans.

All of AXA Wealth Limited’s long-term business transferred to Phoenix Life Limited with effect from 30 September 2017, under a scheme the High Court approved on 21 November 2017. Phoenix Group changed its name to Standard Life plc in March 2026.

Sells life insurance today
No
Life business sold to Resolution Ltd
Completed 15 September 2010
Remaining AXA Sun Life plc policies now with
Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited, since 1 October 2017
AXA Sun Life plc today
Friends Life Company Limited, a dormant company registered at Aviva’s York office
Guaranteed Over 50 plans moved to AXA Wealth
1 November 2011
SunLife sold to Phoenix Group Holdings
Completed 1 November 2016
AXA Wealth Limited and SunLife policies now with
Phoenix Life Limited, trading as SunLife (with effect from 30 September 2017)

This section is based on AXA’s own announcements, the transfer notices in The Gazette, the transfer documents of AXA, Friends Life, Aviva and Phoenix, and the companies’ accounts and records at Companies House.

AXA life insurance history

  1. 1997

    Aviva says Sun Life Assurance was acquired by the AXA Group.

  2. 2001

    The business of AXA Equity and Law Life Assurance Society plc was transferred to AXA Sun Life plc on 1 April.

  3. 2009

    AXA Sun Life plc provided the AXA Protection Account, whose covers were recommended by financial advisers, and the Guaranteed Over 50 Plan sold under the Sun Life Direct name.

  4. 2010

    AXA sold its UK traditional life and pensions, IFA protection, corporate pension and annuity businesses to Resolution Ltd, completing the sale on 15 September.

  5. 2011

    AXA Sun Life plc was renamed Friends Life Company Limited. AXA Wealth Limited began writing new Guaranteed Over 50 business on 1 January and traded as Sun Life Direct. On 1 November Friends Life Company Limited’s Guaranteed Over 50 plan and corporate trustee investment plan products were transferred to AXA Wealth Limited.

  6. 2012–2013

    The majority of Friends Life Company Limited’s long-term business was transferred to Friends Life Limited on 28 December 2012. Its remaining long-term business was transferred to Friends Life and Pensions Limited on 28 December 2013.

  7. 2014

    Friends Life Company Limited was de-authorised on 7 February. SunLife says Sun Life Direct became SunLife.

  8. 2015

    Aviva acquired Friends Life in April.

  9. 2016

    AXA completed the sale of its Isle of Man offshore investment bonds business to Life Company Consolidation Group on 21 October. On 1 November it completed the sale of its UK (non-platform) investment, pensions and direct protection (SunLife) businesses to Phoenix Group Holdings. SunLife says it joined the Phoenix Group that year.

  10. 2017

    In July AXA Wealth Limited rebranded parts of its business as Phoenix Wealth. All of its long-term business transferred to Phoenix Life Limited with effect from 30 September, under a scheme the High Court approved on 21 November. It was renamed Phoenix AW Limited in December. On 1 October Friends Life Limited’s and Friends Life and Pensions Limited’s long-term businesses (including former AXA Sun Life plc policies) transferred to Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited.

  11. 2026

    Phoenix Group became Standard Life plc in March.

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Existing AXA life insurance policies

Who looks after an old AXA policy now depends on which AXA company last provided it: AXA Sun Life plc or AXA Wealth Limited. AXA Wealth Limited traded as Sun Life Direct and took over AXA Sun Life plc’s Guaranteed Over 50 plans in 2011.

Policies that stayed with AXA Sun Life plc, such as the AXA Protection Account, are now with Aviva. AXA Sun Life plc’s remaining long-term business passed to Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited on 1 October 2017. Aviva’s contact page asks anyone who bought a policy through AXA to use the AXA contact details that match their policy number.

Guaranteed Over 50 Plans and other Sun Life Direct plans. Sun Life Direct was a trading name of AXA Sun Life plc in 2009 and of AXA Wealth Ltd by 2011. AXA Wealth took over AXA Sun Life plc’s Guaranteed Over 50 plans on 1 November 2011. AXA Wealth Ltd provided Sun Life Direct’s Sun Life Insurance in 2011 and the Guaranteed Over 50 Plan by December 2012.

All of AXA Wealth’s long-term business transferred to Phoenix Life Limited with effect from 30 September 2017. The transfer documents were published on sunlife.co.uk, phoenixwealth.co.uk and phoenixlife.co.uk. Phoenix Life Limited is the provider of SunLife policies and trades as SunLife, and SunLife handles Guaranteed Over 50 Plan claims.

Aviva’s claims page also lists a separate AXA Sunlife Direct life insurance claims line, 0345 366 1645.

The 2011 guide to the transfer to AXA Wealth told policyholders that their policy number, features and benefits, including any guaranteed benefits, would stay the same. The 2017 notice for the transfer to Phoenix said all claims on the transferred AXA Wealth policies would be dealt with by Phoenix.

Remaining AXA Sun Life plc policies
Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited
Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited
Company 03253947, life insurer, FCA firm reference 185896, authorised
AXA Wealth Ltd (Sun Life Direct)
Company 01225468, now Phoenix AW Limited (non-trading)
AXA Wealth and SunLife policies
Phoenix Life Limited, trading as SunLife
Phoenix Life Limited
Company 01016269, FCA firm reference 110418, authorised
  • Look for the insurer’s name and the policy number on your policy schedule, annual statements or premium letters.
  • Aviva’s AXA phone lines are matched to the first character of the policy number: H, J or L; 3; or 2, 4, 5, 6 or 8.
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Tracing an old AXA policy. Phoenix Life notes that people lose track of policies when an insurer merges, changes its name or sells its policies to another company. It lists AXA Wealth among the companies whose policies it took on. It also points people to a tool on the Association of British Insurers (ABI) website for finding missing life insurance policies.

Our guide to lost life insurance policies explains where else to look, including tracing services, and what to do once you find a policy.

Contacting Aviva or SunLife about an AXA policy

AXA UK doesn’t sell life insurance. Contact Aviva about AXA Sun Life plc policies, and SunLife about SunLife plans and plans that moved to AXA Wealth, such as the Guaranteed Over 50 Plan. Aviva also lists a separate AXA Sunlife Direct claims line.

You can start an Aviva life insurance claim by phone or with Aviva’s online form. Before you start, Aviva asks you to have ready the name of the person who has died, your relationship to them and the cause of death. It also asks for your contact details and the policy number, if you have it.

Aviva says most customers can also use MyAviva to view their policy information and cover details, and to find helplines and contact information.

SunLife takes Guaranteed Over 50 Plan claims by phone, online with its claim form, or by post. For a claim by post, it asks for the claimant’s name, the policyholder’s name and date of birth, and the original death certificate. It also asks for the bank account number and sort code for the payment, and a copy of the policyholder’s will if there is one.

Aviva: AXA policy numbers starting H, J or L
0345 070 7099 (Mon–Fri 8am–6pm)
Aviva: AXA policy numbers starting 3
0345 300 1942 (Mon–Fri 8.30am–6pm)
Aviva: AXA policy numbers starting 2, 4, 5, 6 or 8
0345 732 2223 (Mon–Fri 8.30am–6pm; claims from 8am)
Aviva: AXA Sunlife Direct life claims
0345 366 1645 (Mon–Fri 8am–6pm)
Aviva: AXA lines from abroad
+44 1708 678 294 (H, J, L), +44 1179 899 000 (3), +44 1179 893 000 (2, 4, 5, 6, 8)
Aviva: tell Aviva about a death
0345 268 2194 (Mon–Fri 9am–5pm)
Aviva: life insurance contact page
aviva.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
SunLife: existing plans
0800 008 6060 (from overseas +44 (0) 1733 79 33 44)
SunLife: claims by post
SunLife, PO Box 1395, Peterborough, PE2 2TR

Phone numbers and opening hours checked on Aviva’s and SunLife’s websites on 3 October 2026. Aviva’s contact page gives 8.30am to 6pm for policy numbers starting 2, 4, 5, 6 or 8, and its claims page gives 8am to 6pm.

Former AXA life insurance documents

These are archived copies of AXA’s own product documents from 2009 to 2012 and the main documents about where the policies went. Your own policy documents set out your exact terms.

Documents checked on 3 October 2026. The original links on axa.co.uk and sunlifedirect.co.uk now go to the AXA and SunLife homepages, so the product documents link to copies kept by the Internet Archive.

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AXA life insurance FAQs

AXA no longer sells life insurance in the UK. AXA UK’s product list covers car, home, business, landlord, van, health and travel insurance. Its UK insurer, AXA Insurance UK Plc, is registered at Companies House as a non-life insurer.

Who looks after your policy depends on which AXA company last provided it. Policies that stayed with AXA Sun Life plc are now with Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited.

Plans provided by AXA Wealth Ltd, which traded as Sun Life Direct, are now with Phoenix Life Limited, which trades as SunLife. That includes the Guaranteed Over 50 Plans AXA Wealth took over from AXA Sun Life plc in 2011. Aviva also lists a separate AXA Sunlife Direct claims line, 0345 366 1645. If you’re not sure which company holds your policy, check the insurer’s name and policy number on your paperwork.

For an AXA Sun Life plc policy now with Aviva, you can use Aviva’s online form or call the AXA claims number that matches your policy number. Call 0345 070 7099 for 7-character policy numbers starting with H, J or L, or 0345 300 1942 for policy numbers starting with 3. Call 0345 732 2223 for policy numbers starting with 2, 4, 5, 6 or 8.

For a Guaranteed Over 50 Plan, call SunLife on 0800 008 6060 or use its online claim form.

AXA Sun Life plc was renamed Friends Life Company Limited in 2011, and its Guaranteed Over 50 plans moved to AXA Wealth that November. The rest of its insurance business moved to other Friends Life companies in 2012 and 2013, and then to Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited in 2017. The company was de-authorised in 2014 and is now dormant.

SunLife says Sun Life Direct became SunLife in 2014. Sun Life Direct was a trading name of AXA Sun Life plc in 2009 and of AXA Wealth Ltd by 2011. AXA sold SunLife to Phoenix Group Holdings in 2016.

Phoenix Group bought AXA Wealth Limited’s pension and protection businesses in November 2016. All of AXA Wealth’s long-term business then transferred to Phoenix Life Limited with effect from 30 September 2017, under a scheme the High Court approved on 21 November 2017. The company was renamed Phoenix AW Limited in December 2017, was de-authorised for long-term business from 9 March 2018 and is now a non-trading company.

Look for the policy number and insurer’s name on your paperwork, then contact Aviva or SunLife.

Phoenix Life also points people to the Association of British Insurers’ tool for finding missing life insurance policies.

The moves were made by transfer schemes under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, with the approval of the High Court. For the 2011 move to AXA Wealth, policyholders were told their policy number, features and benefits, including any guaranteed benefits, would stay the same.

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The facts on this page come from these sources.

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