Help tracing asset

AlBlanco

Good afternoon. I am going through some old papers I have found belonging to my late parents. I have documents relating to a Guaranteed Bond they took out with Financial Insurance Group, Financial House, Eaton Road, Enfield, Middlesex EN1 1YR (1993) later to become Financial Consolidated Financial Insurance Limited, PO Box 138, Vantage West, Great West Road,  Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9SS (1996). I am having trouble finding these companies and realise they may have been amalgamated into something else, so I was wondering if anyone might be able to assist as I need to see if this bond still exists and whether it has any value? 

Jonboy_1984

Do  they quote company registration numbers on any of the documents?

Alderbank

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) maintain a database of former insurance Companies for tracing purposes but neither of those names is listed.
https://www.abi.org.uk/data-and-resources/tools-and-resources/find-lost-pension/?p=2#page-list-751a5518bf634758a1685e18378b52a8

PO Box 138... is not a physical address. Vantage West Middx would have been the location of the sorting office. The sorting office seems to have gone, Vantage West is now a collection of offices to rent.

user1977

Are you sure about the company name?

There is/was a Consolidated Insurance Group Limited, which had its registered office at the Vantage West address at the time, but is now dissolved:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01870149

But its last controlling entity was AXA France Vie, so I would suggest asking AXA.

Delburn

user1977 said:

Are you sure about the company name?

There is/was a Consolidated Insurance Group Limited, which had its registered office at the Vantage West address at the time, but is now dissolved:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01870149

But its last controlling entity was AXA France Vie, so I would suggest asking AXA.

This looks the correct line to investigate.  There are contact details for AXA France Vie (UK Branch) here:

https://register.fca.org.uk/s/firm?id=001b000000MfJwNAAV

You may need to make clear you query relates to the business of Consolidated Life Assurance Company Limited/Financial Assurance Company Limited, not AXA Wealth.  Also bear in mind, that in many such cases the policy may have paid out many years ago, and the records of this may not have been retained.

The original company would likely have been one of Consolidated Life Assurance Company Limited (01512181 deleted), or Financial Assurance Company Limited (01044679).  In any event the business of Consolidated was transferred into Financial in 1997:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01044679

Transferred to Financial Assurance Company Limited (04873014) in 2004:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04873014

Transferred to AXA France Vie in 2018