Whenever I deride an insurance and investment combo plan, I get many queries about how to invest for your kids’ education. When you are planning for kids’ education, your biggest concerns are: Where to invest i.e. choosing the right product to accumulate funds for their education If something happens to you, your planned savings for the kid’s education must not … [Read more...] about How (not) to invest for Children’s education?
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5 reasons why Senior Citizens should avoid Life Insurance Products
Senior citizens are soft-targets for mis-selling. Why? First, they may not be comfortable researching the financial products or may not have requisite skill/ resources to understand the product before buying. How many are comfortable researching a product online? Secondly, they may lack the physical and mental strength to get justice if they realize they have been mis-sold a … [Read more...] about 5 reasons why Senior Citizens should avoid Life Insurance Products
Review: SBI Life Poorna Suraksha: A Term Plan with increasing Critical Illness Cover
Most term life insurance plans give you an option to add a critical illness rider to your base plan. You have to pay an additional premium to get coverage for critical illnesses. A few life insurance plans have inbuilt critical illness coverage. We discussed LIC Jeevan Shiromani in an earlier post. SBI Life – Poorna Suraksha plan is different. It is a term insurance plan with … [Read more...] about Review: SBI Life Poorna Suraksha: A Term Plan with increasing Critical Illness Cover
Use this smart Health Insurance Strategy to get higher cover at a low premium
Karthik (51) lives in Mumbai with his wife (Devani, 43) and two kids (Harsh, 12 and Ritika, 5). He realized the importance of adequate health cover a few years back and purchased a family floater of Rs 10 lacs. He realizes health care costs have been rising very fast in Mumbai. He thinks Rs 10 lacs may not be enough. He wants to enhance cover to Rs 20 lacs. He has heard of … [Read more...] about Use this smart Health Insurance Strategy to get higher cover at a low premium
LIC Single Premium Endowment Plan (817): Review
LIC Single Premium Endowment Plan (Table no. 817) is a single premium non-linked participating life insurance plan. It is not a new plan. The plan has been around for a long time. A reader asked me to review the plan. So, here we go. LIC Single Premium Endowment Plan (Table no. 817): Review Minimum Entry Age): 90 days Maximum Entry Age: 65 years Minimum Age at … [Read more...] about LIC Single Premium Endowment Plan (817): Review
How claim is settled in case of multiple Health Insurance plans?
Many of us have more than one health insurance policies. And I receive a number of queries over e-mail and as comments in my blog post about discontent with claim settlements for two policies. Many have a grievance that the insurers did not settle as they expected and they had to pay the balance from their pockets. I had done a post on pros and cons of having multiple health … [Read more...] about How claim is settled in case of multiple Health Insurance plans?
Stay away from LIC Retire and Enjoy and other bundled products
If you purchase a product that provides poor/inadequate returns, you will get poor returns. If you purchase two of those products, you will still get poor returns. Or is there a chance that you can get good returns? There is no chance. 2+2=4, and not 5 (unless you believe in magic) Therefore, if you bundle two or more low return traditional life insurance plans, you will … [Read more...] about Stay away from LIC Retire and Enjoy and other bundled products
Disability Insurance: Missing piece in your Financial Planning
When you are planning to ringfence your assets/finances from adverse events, the two most common insurances that come to mind are Life Insurance and Health Insurance. Life Insurance provides compensation to the family if you are not around. An adequate life insurance cover safeguards your family should ideally cover all your outstanding loans, provide for financial goals and … [Read more...] about Disability Insurance: Missing piece in your Financial Planning
Health Insurance Tax Benefits under Section 80D (From FY2019)
You are aware of the health benefits of health insurance. But, are you aware of the tax benefits of health insurance? Do you know that you can claim tax benefit for payment for preventive health checkup too? Are you aware there are exemptions/deductions available for medical expenses incurred under specific cases? In one of the earlier posts on how to save income tax, I had … [Read more...] about Health Insurance Tax Benefits under Section 80D (From FY2019)
LIC Bima Shree (Plan no. 848): Middle class’s LIC Jeevan Shiromani
LIC has recently launched a new moneyback plan: LIC Bima Shree (Plan 848). The plan is quite similar to LIC Jeevan Shiromani, that was launched a few months back. There are only a few differences (or those that I could see). LIC Jeevan Shiromani has an inbuilt critical illness plan. LIC Bima Shree does not have it. With LIC Bima Shree, you can purchase critical illness … [Read more...] about LIC Bima Shree (Plan no. 848): Middle class’s LIC Jeevan Shiromani
