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INSURANCE

It is a means of protection from financial loss. It is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss.

It is an arrangement by which a company or the state undertakes to provide a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment of a specified premium.

TYPES

Insurance can be broadly classified into two categories

GENERAL INSURANCE
LIFE INSURANCE

GENERAL INSURANCE

General insurance is basically non-life insurance, which is meant for short period of time, ideally twelve month or less. Now a day, some companies make contracts for more than twelve months but not more than 5 years.

  • Vehicle insurance
  • Fire insurance
  • Marine Insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Personal accident insurance
  • Travel insurance etc

LIFE INSURANCE

Life insurance is the most discussed stuff in the industry. Most of the people know about the insurance but they do not the difference of the same. The good thing about insurance is that the awareness has been increasing over a period. A decade back, people used to buy insurance because somebody forms their family or friends force him/her to buy it. But now people buy insurance to mitigate the risk. People have started understanding the need of an hour.

Types of Life Insurance

Life insurance can be classified as whole life plan, endowment, term plan, money back plan and Unit Linked Insurance Plan (ULIP).

Whole-Life Plan

Insurance company collects premium from the insured till the retirement or the term of the policy and pays the claims to the nominees only after the death of the insured person. This helps the family to survive better after the death of insured

Endowment

Insurance company collect premium form the insured for the certain period like 15, 20, 25, 30 years. Company pays sum assured to the nominees in case of death of the insured during the policy period or pay the premium paid by the insured with fix returns (as per policy document) to the insured.

Money back

The policy is useful for that investor who needs periodical pay-outs. The insurance company collect premium certain period, which is called premium payment term, and pays percentage of sum assured to the insured on regular interval. If insured dies during the policy term, insurance company pays sum assured and accrued bonus to the nominees.

Term plan

In case of term insurance, insured pay premium to cover the death risk. Insured does not get anything from the insurance company if he survives till the end of policy term. The premium paid for term cover goes to the company. The good part of this plan is, insured gets maximum death cover with minimum premium. Now a days, companies have come up with insurance with return of premium, if nothing happens to the insured during the term of the policy, the company pays part of the premium back to the insured. A term plan should be attached with “Married Women’s Property Act” at the time of buying the policy.

ULIP

it is a new flavour of insurance which is a mix of investment as well as insurance. Insurance companies collects premium form client and invest the same into equity and debt markets. The returns generated by this investment are passed on to the inventors at the maturity. The insured person gets the benefit of risk cover as well as the investment gains. The product also offers the flexibility of partial withdrawal after certain period of premium payments. In case of death of Insured, the nominee gets the sum assured or fund value, whichever is higher