The life insurance industry is in bad shape. Their past sins of over charging the customer are visiting them, and real hard. The Irda made some changes, the Income tax made some changes, they themselves made some mistakes, the customer unfortunately woke up, ….so in fine the industry is in trouble. So here is a […]

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I remember a friend saying when he got a tip to buy a share the first thing he would ask the person is – will I be able to sell 500,000 shares without impacting the price of the share? Accumulation happens over a long time, however exit could happen suddenly and swiftly. Also the company […]

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A few days ago I did a post sayings ‘Indians are under-insured’. It was so good that Dr. Khan came and commented (!).. However some of the comments were really saddening! When a person died (and his son died with him) – his wife got more money on the child’s policy than what she got […]

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It is customary to say ‘Indians are under insured’ see the Americans. Of course right. Indians are under insured – says who? the Insurance industry! Remember WB saying ‘never ask the barber whether you need a haircut’. L O L. So is it true that Indians are under-insured? The answer is not so easy. Indians […]

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‘Life insurance is a solicitation business…..’ well no comments! Now Hari Narayan wants the agency channel to close down and only the bancassurance business to survive. Completely from my portfolio point of view, I am very happy. Banks are in a great position to know what you do with your money – and they have […]

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No this is not an article of whether you should buy life insurance from a bank or from an agent…it is just leading to an article on MoneyLife. Agents tell me ‘we cannot sell a wrong product to the customer, because we have to go to the same guy again and again, but bank managers […]

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One major problem with most of the people buying life insurance is ‘not knowing what they are buying’. Now a buyer should at least know what is he buying, should he not? The whole purpose seems to be to create some confusing products and make sure that the beneficiary is either the manufacturer or the […]

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