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Whose name can Tax Saving investment be done?

We know that we can save taxes by investing in various instruments. But a few days back I got queries on whose name can various investments eligible for tax saving investment be done. There are people who want to invest in their wife’s or child’s name or jointly and claim tax exemption on the same. [...]

LIC Jeevan Sugam – Review

LIC (Life Insurance Corporation) has launched LIC Jeevan Sugam which is a non linked Single Premium Limited Period Plan. This is third plan launch from LIC in last two months. The last two launches were LIC New Jeevan Nidhi Plan [a pension plan] & LIC Flexi Plus Plan [Unit Linked Insurance Plan]. These launches are [...]

LIC Flexi Plus Plan – Review

January to March are the months when people rush to make Tax Saving Investments. Insurance companies know this and they launch newer products to get a pie of this. Keeping with these traditions LIC has launched Flexi Plus – a Unit Linked Insurance Plan (ULIP). LIC Flexi Plus – Features: Sum Assured is 10 times [...]

Life Insurance – Death Claim Settlement Ratio – 2011-12

Claim Settlement Ratio is probably the most important factor while buying insurance. This becomes even more critical for Life Insurance as you would like your dependents to run pillar to post to claim your sum assured in case of unfortunate death. The recently published Insurance Regulatory And Development Authority – IRDA Annual report 2011-12 has [...]

Tax Treatment for Various Financial Assets

Tax Treatment of Various Financial Instruments

Taxation on your investment is as important as the return on Investment. All financial instruments go through three stages Investment Earning Withdrawal The tax rules vary across the above three phases. This post would tell you how different financial Instruments are taxed in these three phases and what would be its impact on you. Based on [...]

Bajaj Allianz Cash Rich Insurance Plan – Review

Bajaj Allianz is heavily promoting its Cash Rich Insurance Plan as a retirement solution through all kinds of media. But does the plan do what it promises? Cash rich insurance plan is essentially a money-back plan that gives the flexibility to choose the premium paying term as well as the money-back term. The policy can [...]

Birla Sun Life Recurring Savings Plan – Review

Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund has put big front page advertisement in all leading dailies about its Recurring Savings Plan (RSP). On checking out the details of the RSP, you would realize it’s the same old Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) coupled with free group life insurance with a new name of Recurring Savings Plan (RSP). [...]

Birla Sunlife Century SIP: Free Life Insurance with Mutual Fund

Mutual Funds (MF) are one of the best investment vehicles to create wealth in the long run. And Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) the best way to invest in them. What if the Mutual Fund companies start offering free insurance with MF SIPs in their schemes! According to me it’s an excellent opportunity to start doing [...]

Cheapest Online Term Life Insurance Plans in India – April 2012

Below is the chart showing lowest online term life insurance premium for a particular age for different insurance amount. The tenure of insurance is 60-(age at time of taking insurance). So for 30 Years aged person the insurance tenure is 30 Years, for 40 years age its 20 years and for 50 years age its [...]

Personal Finance: Changes from April 2012

With start of new financial year 2012-13, a lot would change from today in personal finance space. Here is the list. Good News: Increased Interest on Small Savings Scheme like PPF, NSC, etc: The government has increased interest rates on post office deposits like PPF, NSC, Fixed Deposit, Recurring Deposit, and Senior citizen Scheme in [...]

Life Insurance – Claim Settlement Ratio – 2010-11

Claim Settlement Ratio is probably the most important factor while buying insurance. This becomes even more critical for Life Insurance as you would like your dependents to run pillar to post to claim your sum assured in case of unfortunate death. The recently published Insurance Regulatory And Development Authority - IRDA Annual report 2010-11 has the [...]

LIC Jeevan Vriddhi: New Advertisement

LIC had launched single premium life insurance plan - LIC Jeevan Vriddhi, which has death benefit of 5 times the single premium. With the new rules on Life Insurance in Budget 2012, the minimum death benefit should be at least 10 times the annual premium paid. This rule is however effective from April 1, 2012. So [...]

Life Insurance: Changes in Budget 2012

Life Insurance in India is more to do with Tax saving and Investment rather than actual “Insurance”. Budget 2012 has taken cognizance of this fact and has proposed to increase the sum assured limit as a multiple of the premium in order to enjoy tax benefits. Under section 80C of the Income-tax Act, premiums paid [...]

The advantage of being Woman – Financially!

There are advantages of being a woman – both financially and other wise. But this post focuses on the advantages the women have in the financial world. Income Tax Benefit: Under the current tax regime, women pay less tax than men. For the present financial year (2011 – 12), the tax exemption limit for women [...]

LIC Jeevan Vriddhi: Should you invest?

On March 1, 2012 Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) has launched a new Single premium life insurance plan – LIC Jeevan Vriddhi. Lets look at the product in detail and then decide if you should invest in LIC Jeevan Vriddhi LIC Jeevan Vriddhi: Benefits Maturity Benefit: On maturity, the Guaranteed Maturity Sum Assured along with Loyalty Addition, [...]

Single Premium or Yearly Premium for Life Insurance – Which is better?

Deciding on Life insurance is complicated process and once you have decided on the insurance amount, insurance tenure and which company and plan to go for, the last decision to be made is weather you should opt for single premium or Yearly premium payment? I favour Yearly premium payment over single premium policies because of [...]

Bajaj Allianz Guaranteed Maturity Insurance Plan Review

Bajaj Allianz Guaranteed Maturity Insurance Plan: It is a single-premium unit-linked insurance plan (Ulip) that promises a maturity corpus of at least twice the premium paid. It also provides an insurance cover during the term. The minimum premium under this plan is Rs 5,000, which is also the cost of one guaranteed maturity certificate. Under [...]

Which is the best Life Insurance – Money Back or Term Plan?

At the time when life insurance companies are caught on the wrong foot with their ULIPs and stock market fluctuations, the focus has come back to the traditional Endowment & Money Back plans. Money Back Plan – In this kind of plan the insurance company, on survival, returns wholly or partially the premium paid by [...]

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