Smart tips for buying insurance online

Tips for Buying Insurance Online

Are you a net savvy person who likes to shop online and now want to expand your shopping spree to personal finance products?  Are you looking for tips for buying insurance online? If yes, you are at the right place. Though the internet penetration in India is very less, it is growing massively and sensing [...]

12 things you must know about insurance [infographic]

Insurance Awareness Points

Here are 12 things in a graphical format you must know about insurance. Insurance policies, be it life via term or endowment, or health or motor insurance, have some caveats or rules that always catch investors by surprise. And when that happens, the claim is rejected. Instead of learning on the job, it is always [...]

Old wine, new bottle – why life insurance is not an investment !

why life insurance is not an investment

I know this is a very abused topic in the personal finance world but the way it keeps coming up alarmingly everyday made me revisit it. Most of my clients have truck loads of life insurance policies that was sold to them without their knowledge or understanding not to mention that most of these policies [...]

Who should fill health and life insurance application forms ?

application-forms

One of my clients Prabhu (name changed) called me over the weekend to understand whether I being his financial planner, could fill in his life insurance application forms for him. While I had to convince him that I would like to do something better, his next question left me breathless. It was “Why can’t the [...]

How many insurance policies can one person have ?

How-many-insurance-policies

This is in continuation of my “How Many” series articles. The topic this time is how many insurance policies can one person have ? While we did touch upon must have insurance policies for an investor in his overall financial planning, what might confuse the investor is how many such should he totally have. If you [...]

3 insurance policies you cannot afford to miss

3 Insurance Policies you cannot miss

What are the insurance policies you must necessarily have ? Life has its own surprises. You are hale and hearty one day and can drop dead the very next day; you could land up on the surgeon’s table for no fault of yours; you could be diagnosed with a critical illness rendering you incapable of [...]