These days selling life insurance is very difficult, well that is what we are told. That is true if you explain all the features in the policy. If you were to simply do a mis-selling, then like other things in life, it is possible to come out unscathed! So the people in the industry […]

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Read an amazing article on 10 March in a national pink daily on Term Insurance with Return of Premium. ROP as it is called. The author had argued that a Term ROP should not be bought because it is more expensive than the pure Term insurance and hence it should not be bought. This is […]

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This is a zillionth time I am saying this. Let me repeat it. Again and Again. If you have a family dependent on you – parents, wife, children, in-laws, ……..please remember YOU are not invincible. You could die. Sorry I refuse to mince words like a typical life insurance agent. He says ..”in case something […]

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This is the one and only question that should be uppermost in your minds when you buy an insurance product. Does not matter whether it is life insurance, health insurance or auto insurance. Let us deal with each one of them. Take life insurance. When I checked the premium for a 28 year old wanting […]

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  You are a common man and wish to buy term insurance. You read subramoney and decided R company’s premium is the lowest and so you decided to buy from company R. Now comes the fun. You meet a person who charges you for advise (so you know you are paying him), but unknown to […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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