Taking life insurance in today’s turbulent times is not just
an intelligent move, it is an essential one. All we have any reasonable control
over is our present. The future may bring with it tremendous joys in the form
of our children topping their schools and college exams, an unexpected windfall
or even a surprise trip to Europe on your 50th birthday. But the
future can also come with tremendous lows, such as the unexpected death of a
loved one or the loss of a stable job.
But life insurance can, if not entirely pre-empt,
considerably nullify the effects of these future calamities. By playing the
insurance game intelligently, you can make your life insurance policy work for
you at maturity. Here’s how:
* Choose a maturity date based on future life goals.
At your current position in life, you may be looking at financing your child’s
foreign education 15 years hence. Or you may be at a mid-career phase and
looking to retire in 10 years. Are you certain that you will have enough
financial resources to mark these major milestones? If not, you can choose life
insurance plans for 10, 15 or 20 years that provide a large corpus on maturity,
just in time to send your child to college or for you to set funds aside for
your retirement.
* The plan can finance future dreams. In the race of
life, you may need to sacrifice your own small joys to help your loved ones
realise their dreams. At the start of one’s career, especially, one does not
have a very high salary to finance such activities as annual vacations and
regular expensive purchases. But a life insurance policy maturing after a
certain number of years can provide the money to finance the dreams you are
putting off for later.
* Your loved ones are cared for even in your absence.
The best laid plans can go awry in the case of your unfortunate demise. Your
endowment life insurance takes away the worry of
future financial insecurity. If the policy holder passes away before the policy
matures, the death benefits accrued over the policy are passed on to the
holder’s family. So whether you are present in their life or not, your loved ones
are assured of a stable living.
* It creates a sizeable corpus for parents. Our
parents sacrifice everything to raise us, and they continue to give their time
and effort even when they are in their autumn years. Taking life insurance plans
in their name for a certain number of years can guarantee a corpus for them
when the policy matures. They need not depend on anybody for their upkeep in
their old age – the policy you take in their name will keep them in good stead.
Despite the many advantages of investing in life insurance
in India, several people continue to subsist without it. Not taking life
insurance is like living with a constant threat of financial insecurity every
day. Unless you have a lot of money saved up in the bank and have some high
yield investments, your family is completely unprotected against future
monetary shocks. In your absence, your loved ones are left to fend for
themselves – and it’s a cruel world out there. Instead, taking life insurance
plans is the way forward.
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