if you buy anything from insurance company, it will be a kind of insurance products. Say RRSP for an intance, it is still considered to be an insurance product.
The major difference is that if you buy RRSP from insurance company, you can have creditor protection and up to 60k insurance protection from Canadian Life and Health Insurance Compensation Corporation(ComCorp). besides if the owner of RRSP die, the amount of RRSP will be directly passed on the beneficiary without waiting period(usually take very long time) and probation fee which is pretty high.
The major difference is that if you buy RRSP from insurance company, you can have creditor protection and up to 60k insurance protection from Canadian Life and Health Insurance Compensation Corporation(ComCorp). besides if the owner of RRSP die, the amount of RRSP will be directly passed on the beneficiary without waiting period(usually take very long time) and probation fee which is pretty high.