If you're an executor of an estate, be warned that Prudential will only issue payments by cheque and will not issue them using the name of an executor. Rather they make payments to "The Executors". We found that most banks will not accept this. You may find that you will only be able to bank the cheque with an executor's account (which very few banks offer). In our case, Prudential had a "computer says no" approach to this situation and blamed the banks for not accepting the cheque, rather than simply re-issuing the cheque in the name of one of the executors. Prudential do not seem to recognise that they are just making life unnecessarily difficult for those who may already be dealing with difficult situations.