Funeral insurance is not just insurance business as usual and requires a dedicated understanding of the dynamics driving funeral insurance markets. This applies to both insurers seeking to effectively target and distribute it, as well as for regulators seeking to find the right regulatory approach to it.

Published by ILO Microinsurance Innovation Facility, this report considers the demand for funeral insurance and the unique supply and distribution characteristics thereof in a number of countries, as well as the consumer vulnerabilities typically related to funeral insurance and how it can be overcome.