Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana was launched by PM Sh. Narendra Modi Ji on 9th May, 2015. It is one of the 3 social security schemes launched by Government of India simultaneously. I covered Atal Pension Yojana in my previous post and next post will be dedicated to Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana. In layman terms, Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana is a term insurance plan. It can be renewed annually. It offers life insurance cover for death due to any reason. As it is evident from my posts that i am a big fan of term insurance plans due to its inherent benefits. In my ... Read More
Loan Against Insurance Policy
Loan against Insurance Policy is not so very common in India. One of the major reason is that the most of the policyholders are not aware of this option. Secondly, the penetration of insurance is very low in India. In fact, i believe that if we remove Income Tax benefits attached to the Insurance Policy then penetration will be negligible. Insurance Premium is either considered as a waste of money or is paid for investment purpose. Both, India psychic and Insurance industry are responsible for this sorry state of Insurance products. By now most of my readers know that i have traditional ... Read More
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) was launched by our Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi on Aug 28, 2014. The key objective of this scheme is Financial Inclusion i.e. to provide banking & financial services in affordable manner. Though we all know primary benefits of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana but lets discuss key inclusions and exclusions of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana for the benefit of readers. Highlights of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (a) Life insurance cover of Rs 30,000 (Applicable only if savings account is opened between Aug 15, 2014 and Jan 26, 2015) (b) ... Read More
Beware of Hidden ULIP Charges
ULIP Charges and Greed are synonyms for each other. ULIP (Unit Linked Plan) is a perfect case study of How Greed Kills. Greed is always both ways i.e. Banks/Insurance Provider's greed to sell more and Greed of investor for higher returns. ULIP was launched in 1971 but all the mess in ULIP started after private life insurers entered in 2000. ULIP misselling became so rampant that IRDA (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority) had to step in. IRDA came up with regulations for ULIP to control ULIP charges in September 2010. I still remember that for few ULIP products, large portion of ... Read More
Online Term Insurance Plan
Have you ever wondered why LIC is not offering Online Term Insurance at lower premiums. Though the experts say that LIC's high premium is because of High Mortality rate. In my opinion, the real reason is that LIC would not like to offer low premium online term insurance else it will outrage its huge sales force / agents. The premium of LIC term insurance plan is 3-4 times of online term insurance policy like Max Life Online Term Plan, HDFC Life Click2Protect etc. LIC is still following the Mortality table of early 90's to calculate premium for term insurance. Contrary to that in last 15-20 ... Read More
5 Financial Planning Myths
Myth is always far from reality. It applies to some of most common or following 5 financial planning myths. The goals and objectives in our lives keep changing with time. In India, Financial Planning is loosely correlated to Retirement planning which is not true. In laymen terms, We need Financial Planning for each & every critical financial goal in life. Be it Kids Education, Buying a Property or Retirement. Different financial goals have different time frames e.g. i have time frame of 10 years for kids education or 15 Years left for retirement. The biggest roadblock to financial planning ... Read More