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What is your financial temperature?

Financial temperature is a term used to define one 's personal monetary affairs. Financial temperature has many dimensions including how much savings you have, how much you put away for retirement and how much of your income you spend on fixed or non-discretionary expenses. Personal Net Worth However, the net worth of an individual can be quantified simply because he measures the tangible. By tangible like personal property, cash, art works, antiques, jewelry, collectibles, stocks , bonds, rare books, cars, the cash value of entire life insurance policies, 401ks, IRAs and other things that can be assigned a definitive monetary value. Those tangible items are described as the assets of an individual. On the other side, we have liabilities. These could include mortgages, auto loans , credit cards, installment loans , student loans and, to name a few, tax liabilities. In simple terms, the liabilities represent the debt of a person and other monetary obligations.Since the assets ...

Is the LIC Jeevan Lakshya Plan beneficial for the Children's Education?

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LIC Jeevan Lakshya is a limited premium paid traditional program that is unlinked and graded as an endowment with-profits scheme. The plan became effective in March 2015. This program offers an annual income that can be helpful for the family's needs, particularly for children, in the event of the policyholder 's death before the plan's maturity. By the completion of the maturity period, a lump sum balance is always made available irrespective of the policyholder 's survival. LIC Jeevan Lakshya Key Features & Highlights The salient features of the Jeevan Lakshya plan can be mentioned as follows- Guaranteed Sum Minimum: Rs.1,00,000 Full-No Deadline Multiples- The basic assured sum can only be Rs 10,000 in multiples Benefits of LIC Jeevan Lakshya This policy, if availed, offers the following benefits - Maturity Benefit - The Maturity Benefit will include the Sum Assured on Maturity plus the vested Simple Reversion Benefits and the Final Additional ...

Why Life Insurance Has to Be Part of Your Wealth-Building Plan?

Life insurance companies pay death benefits to their policyholders every day,Providing them with the requisite funds, and definitely welcoming them. Essentially, life insurance offers leverage: You pay the insurance provider a fairly small sum of money in the form of a "premium," And the insurance provider must have a guaranteed payout of fairly significant amounts of money after the insured's death. Though thousands of life insurance policies are available, there are certain unpaid duties or liabilities after you, life insurance may come handy. Some life insurance companies also promise to pay for funeral expenses which after you can be a major cost to your family. Bridging the Wealth Gap A good lump sum can pay off the education fee and marriage costs for your child. Such expenses can be enormous and can be easily taken care of with Life Insurance help. When one is searching for life insurance, there are three specific things relating specifically to life insur...

What are the benefits of LIC’s Jeevan Tarun Plan?

LIC's JEEVAN TARUN is a participating, unlinked, restricted premium payment plan that offers an attractive combination of protection and saving features for children. This plan is specifically designed to meet growing children's educational and other needs through annual Survival Benefit payments from ages 20 to 24 years and Maturity Benefit at age 25. It is a flexible plan in which the proposer can select the proportion of Survival Benefits to be used during the policy period as per the following four options at the proposal stage: Option Survival benefits Maturity benefits Option 1 No survival benefit 100% of Sum Assured Option 2 5% of Sum Assured every year for 5 years 75% of Sum Assured Option 3 10% of Sum Assured every year for 5 years 50% of Sum Assured Option 4 15% of Sum Assured every year for 5 years 25% of Sum Assured Benefits available under an in-force po...

Does your health insurance cover COVID-19 costs?

Growing monetary concerns among people in India, during the time when the country's economy is on the edge of recession, are not groundless, as many employers have imposed cuts in salaries and benefits. With the number of coronavirus cases increasing exponentially in India, frightening narratives of lack of bed availability, exorbitant charges levied by private hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients have emerged. The need for a health insurance policy to cover medical expenses is of primary importance during this time. According to the Asia Insurance Review, less than 4 per cent of COVID-19 patients in India have health insurance coverage, which is not surprising considering that total insurance coverage in India is very small. In April 2020, the Insurance Regulatory Authority of India (IRDAI) announced that all health insurance policies that cover the cost of hospitalization care provided by both general and health insurance firms should also cover the cost of hospitalization fo...