Every day I get mails, calls …or friends who say ‘a friend got this offer…’ Most of the deals on offer look and feel like a rip off. Sometimes a complete rip off. Let us look at some of them! ‘Sir you know ULIPs are bad and expensive, so our company has decided to […]
Many clients, students, readers and friends call back saying “This xyz person is offering me 36% returns on life insurance policies” is it possible?” Sometimes they send me a mail…and the company could be anything from A to Z… My answer has been “The fact that you are asking me shows you do not […]
Every channel, magazine and blog tells you to buy Term insurance…right? Now the industry is much, much smarter than the customer – so they have come up with many, many variants of term insurance! More about that later…but let us see what gives you comfort: 1. Buy term insurance on the net: it is the […]
“No ulip has given REAL returns in the past 10 years” – said one analyst. I have no clue about the accuracy of this statement. His argument was even for those who started in 2002 and were in the boom, only HALF their money participated in the boom (thanks to the high charges). When the […]
When I wrote in 2006 ‘you should take a term life insurance of Rs. 1 crore’ many people wrote to me saying: – he must be a life insurance agent – this is not for the middle class…how can we pay thousands of rupees premium? – if we put all our INVESTMENTS in life insurance, […]
You walk into a life insurance company and buy a life insurance policy for Rs. 7934/- per annum for a Rs. 1 crore sum assured. The company accepts the cheque and asks you to go for a medical test. What are the scenarios that can happen? Best case scenario, they can say, yes you […]
No, nobody likes to talk about death. But people have to die, do they not? Even Devanand had to die! http://www.subramoney.com/2010/06/if-you-died-tonight-what-will-your-family-do A long time ago I wrote a piece ‘If you were to die tonight what would your family do?’- here is the link http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/may/10perfin.htm My question to all readers is to take some time […]