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In this titbit, I am presenting a real-life case of Life Insurance and leave it open to you for response as who is right!
Mr. Mayur, aged 32, IT professional lives in a newly purchased property along with his wife Shilpa, homemaker and 1-year old daughter Niveda. Mayur has taken a home loan of Rs. 90,00,000/- to be paid over 20 years resulting in a monthly EMI of 84,000/-. He does not have any other assets and both Mayur and Shilpa will not be beneficiaries of any inheritance.
One of Mayur’s colleagues, who knows his background, suggests that Mayur should meet a professional investment advisor and seek his help to plan his finances. In the initial meeting with the advisor (Manish), which was brief and more like an icebreaker session, Manish suggests that Mayur needs to buy a life cover as any contingency to his life will be a huge burden on his family. Based on the evaluation of Mayur’s human life value (HLV) by both Income Replacement and Expenses & Liability approach, Manish determines that Mayur would need a cover of atleast 2 Crores. Manish recommends Mayur to buy a 1 Crore term cover from 2 Life Insurers totalling 2 Crores of Sum Assured (SA). The total premium for 2 Crores sum assured would cost approx. Rs. 20,000/- per year
Mayur feels happy that this insurer is going the extra mile to service him. The representative from Insurance company 2, meets Mayur and asks him the background of the Insurance requirement. Once he understands the requirement, he makes a different pitch to Mayur. Mayur has anyway bought a 1 Crore term insurance which will not provide him anything in return and the entire money paid to the insurer will go waste. Instead he proposes a ULIP cover with a premium or Rs. 12,000/- per annum that will provide a small SA of 1 Lakhs or the value of the investment, whichever is higher.
He convinces Mayur by showing him different scenarios of the return potential of the ULIP, with 100% equity investment. The Equity market soared that year and the ULIP bought by Mayur attained a value of 16,000/- for an initial investment of 12,000/- Mayur continues to pay for both the Term Cover and ULIP and at the end of 5 years finds the value of his ULIP to be about 1.25 Lakhs while the 10,000/- premium that he pays for the Term Cover has gone down the drain leaving him confused and thinking whether the decision of taking a Term Cover was right.
< PenguWIN TITBIT # 102 – Who is Right?>
Life insurance is a long term asset which should not be compared with equity investments. However, if tax benefits are available, it can be considered for growth options for periodic returns with careful consideration of leaving some capital to protect the life insurance premiums in self sustaining mode
I have a limited knowledge.. pardon me if this doesn’t make sense:)