Thursday, March 27, 2014

Insurance Planning - Part 1

Insurance Planning – Part 1
When you prepare your financial plan, insurance is a very vital of it. It is a very effective risk management tool for any living human being. By effective insurance planning, client always achieve a lot of peace of mind.
Why Insurance planning ?
Any individual who earn money and doing well in their career and fulfill all financial goal in their life and at a certain age get retirement. If this assumption would be same for each individual across the world then we need not life insurance. Unfortunately every human being have a certain type of life risk during their entire life. These risks may be premature death, permanent or temporary disability due to accident or poor health. These mentioned risks affect your future earning or may be totally stop the future earning. It also affects badly on your personal and financial life.
Life insurance cover your life’s uncertainties and helps your surviving family members in case of any unfortunate event. It provide a certain amount of money to the nominee for the survival of your family member. So now it is clear that it is very vital and important financial product and every earning individual must consider it.
How to determine the sum assured?
In our country, most of insured person are under insured. It means they have not covered by sufficient amount. That amount is known as sum assured. To determine the sum assured there are many methods. Few are given below:
1)   Human Life Value
2)   Multiple of Earning
3)   Appropriate size premium
4)   Need based Approach
If you feel difficulties to determine the appropriate sum assured then you can take services of an expert financial planner. You can also adopt a simple approach like sum insured should be equal to 5 times of your annual income. The most famous methods across the life insurance industry are human life value and need based approach.
If you want more information regarding investment and insurance related or you have any other query about investment feel free to ask us.
Warm regards,

Arvind Trivedi
Certified Financial Planner

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