How do Highest NAV Guarantee Plans work ?
Now a days, we are seeing a new “Innovative” product in the market. They’re called Highest NAV Guaranteed Plans .These products have come in, after the recent crash in the market, and companies are taking advantage of the fact that Investors are looking for some kind of a safe investment equity product. Hence, they’ve launched these […]
Review of LIC’s Wealth Plus
If you were to hear about an investment plan with 17% p.a. returns i.e. if you invest Rs. 1lac today, it would become Rs. 3.5 lacs in next 8 years time, wouldn’t you get greedy?And what if it is told to you that such Highest NAV Guaranteed ULIPs are guaranteed by one of the biggest […]
What happens if you stop your ULIPs before 3 years
Lets Discuss quickly what happens when you stop paying your premiums in ULIPs before 3 yrs. So here is an interesting question and very bad answer. Its already there in your ULIP Brochure, but you never had the time to look at it. Read What are the Most Important questions you should ask from a […]
What is Top-up facility and how to make use of this facility in ULIPS?
I got a query from one reader on ULIP’s top-up facility. The question was “I have a ICICI pension plan, recently, when thinking about topping it up, ‘i was told that top up attracts only 1%charge, as usual, I didn’t believe the agent n called up call-centre. they also confirmed the same, any idea? whats […]
ULIP charges restricted to 3% by IRDA
Does God Exist? I don’t know, but IRDA surely does!!! And hence finally it has acted as GOD to the investors 🙂 . On 22nd July, IRDA capped the ULIP charges at 3%. Let us see in this article how this will affect Investors and the implications on Investments and Insurance Sector as a whole. […]
A Perfect Example of ULIP misselling
Recently I saw a perfect example of ULIP misselling. One of my friend’s parents gave their money to a close friend who was working for some Investment firm and assured them of doing great investments on their behalf. The total money involved was more than 10 Lacs. I don’t know what else he did, but he […]
Most important questions you should ask a ULIP agent
When an agent approaches you with ULIP product; before filling up forms, he should be explaining you What is a ULIP and how it works! You should ask him the following 6 questions to make sure you know what you are about to buy! 1. What are the returns offered by this ULIP? As per the rules […]
How to manage ULIPS ? – Tips to become a smart investor
I am finally back from vacation, I feel bad for not writing anything for these 11 days .. I have written a post on GOLD Breakout here , People interested in investing in GOLD may be interested. Let me talk about IRR and ULIPS today. When we see talk about ULIPS, people generally see its […]
