Financial planning trends among Gen Z, and why adding life insurance is important Buying a policy at an early age helps you to lock your premium at a lower cost and reduce the total expenditure on life insurance over the course of time. The super proactive millennials and Gen Z currently make up the majority of the Indian population. Be it earning, saving or gaining return on investments, they have absolutely outdone all previous generations. According to a survey, a surprising 32 percent of the Indian Gen Z are inclined toward saving more than spending, and only 5 percent said they’d choose leisure over saving. Now, one can’t deny the role of the global pandemic in this sort of a mentality...
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Can't Afford Your Life Insurance Premiums? 3 Options to Look At Many or all of the products here are from our partners that pay us a commission. It’s how we make money. But our editorial integrity ensures our experts’ opinions aren’t influenced by compensation. Terms may apply to offers listed on this page. Consider these before dropping your coverage. Key points Life insurance can become too expensive to keep. There are steps you can take to lower your costs, like rethinking the length of your policy and reducing your death benefit. It’s better to have some level of life insurance coverage than none at all. If you have people in your life who depend on you financially, then it's...
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Q. I am a senior citizen. My spouse and I hold health insurance policies of ₹5 lakh, ₹7 lakh and ₹6 lakh issued by two private and one public sector insurers. There is no top-up cover. As such, in case of any claim that exceeds the coverage of one policy, we might have to prefer claims against more than one policy. As the original documents of the claim would be required by every one of the insurers, we would be grateful if you could explain the procedure to be followed. A. In two different scenarios here is how you can take different approaches. If your claim is ₹5.5 lakh, while you can claim ₹5 lakh from the first policy and ₹50,000 from the third policy, make things simpler by claiming...
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Investment-linked life insurance schemes are conning you Insurance-cum-investment schemes are illiquid and have large penalties for early exit. This is not explained to customers, and most who have to exit due to an emergency, have to do so with huge losses. My friend Shilla called up distraught and shocked. As part of portfolio consolidation, she had surrendered some endowment insurance policies but got to know that she will not even get back her principal, even though she has held the policies for more than 10 years. She was befuddled as to how it is possible to lose her money despite long-term holding with a “safe” institution. It is sad to see investors lose their hard-earned money...
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Which life insurance products are Indians buying – Find out In its latest insurance sector report, Emkay Global Financial Services has shared comprehensive details on the new business performance across product categories in the life insurance space during FY22. Even though ULIPs made a strong comeback in 9MFY22 (Retail Annual Premium Equivalent +50% YoY), the category witnessed slowed down materially in Q4 (+8% YoY), driving FY22 ULIP Retail Annual Premium Equivalent (APE) growth to 33%. Pension products and non-par (savings) continued to grow strongly, but Annuity and par savings struggled, reflecting LIC’s (the most dominant player in these segments) slow growth. The materially slow...
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You work hard to ensure the happiness and security of your loved ones. However, life is uncertain and an unforeseen circumstance can create havoc in your family’s wellbeing. And ensuring the financial stability of your loved ones in your absence, especially if you are the sole earner is crucial. The simplest way to achieve this objective is to invest in a life insurance policy. Such plans pay your beneficiaries the benefits in case of an unforeseen event resulting in your absence during the policy duration. Different types of life insurance policies, such as endowment plans, term plans, money back plans, and much more are available. A term insurance plan is the simplest form of life cover....
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48hrs" data-no-of-words="1150.0"> One of the easiest ways to save tax, according to many tax payers, is to buy a life insurance policy. It becomes an even more compelling proposition for last-minute tax savers who want to complete the tax-saving exercise before the March 31 deadline. However, buying life insurance as just a quick fix solution just to save tax can end up defeating the very purpose for which you are doing the exercise which is to provide financial protection to your family. Here is a list of those common mistakes that you can make while buying life insurance and how you can avoid them. Believing your advisers at face value Many a times, those offering advice on buying life...
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What is a term plan? Term Insurance Plans are pure protection plans which provide life cover at a nominal cost. These plans are the simplest type of life insurance plans. A life insurance policy can help you be prepared and be assured that even when you are no more, your family will not suffer from any dearth of finances. Buying a life insurance policy while you’re young is of utmost importance, but the question is: what kind of insurance policy will work the best for you? Term Plan Insurance – Inexpensive and Reliable Term plans are one of the most basic offerings by insurance providers and are a great choice for anyone looking for a low-premium but high-cover life insurance policy. Term...
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It is a type of “elephant in the room” subject: is your estate large enough and liquid enough to provide for your family should you die? It is the combination of the two that often causes challenges. In some households there are two incomes; if one falls away there is at least one. But what if the one falling away provides for all the fixed expenses including housing? Does this death almost immediately causes drastic actions, like forcing the survivors to move house? Terrible thought. Life insurance can act as a savings tool (the premiums you pay are invested and on an agreed date in the future you will receive a certain sum of money provided you are still amongst the living) or as a risk...
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Buying health insurance is really important to protect against financial loss. But when you start to shop for policies, you may be overwhelmed by the options. One of these may be a short-term health insurance policy. Short-term health policies were originally intended only to fill a gap, such as if you're changing jobs or retire before becoming eligible for Medicare and need coverage only for a few months. Now, however, some people may consider buying them as an alternative to regular insurance. A short-term policy may seem like a good idea because it could be quite a bit cheaper than traditional coverage and, thanks to new rules by the Trump administration, short-term policies could...
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