For a true understanding of Insurance products and services it is necessary to gauge the magnitude of risk that underpins a person’s life. Risk is calculated by the probability of an event and the impact the same event has on an individual. Thus, insurance products were primarily introduced to mitigate this risk and hedge against contingent losses. It is the impartial transfer of risk from one entity to another, usually from the individual to the insuring company. In exchange for regular premiums, that is, smaller losses, a larger, perhaps devastating loss is averted. Any risk that can be measured can be insured, which has led to a proliferation of insurance products, and services— some of the most common ones being auto insurance, home insurance, accident insurance and life insurance.
Life insurance is described as a contractual and binding agreement between two parties, the insurer and the policy owner, in which, on the occurrence of the insured event, a benefit is paid to the designated beneficiaries. A sub-type of Life Insurance gaining increasing relevance is the ‘Whole Life Insurance’. A Whole Life Insurance is a policy designed to cover the whole life of the policy holder, that is, from the date the cover was issued until the death of the insured. Subsequently, the benefits of the cover are passed on to the family.
Over the years, in accordance with the growing demands of insurance products, several specializations have been introduced in whole life insurance products. Among them are non-participating, participating, indeterminate premiums, economic and limited pay whole life insurance products. Non-participating insurance premiums are policies wherein the values are determined at the time of the policy issue, and cannot be altered at a later date. In Participating policies the values (such as death benefits, premiums, cash surrender values, etc.) may change, and the insurance company may share the excess profits with the policyholder at the time of maturity. In Indeterminate whole life insurance policies, the premium amount may vary from year to year. And in the Limited Pay whole life insurance policy, you have the option of avoiding annual premium payments and opting for payments at specific time periods.
Even though the principal purpose of whole life insurance policies has always been to provide security to your loved ones, there are several other subsidiary benefits that come with whole life insurance cover— the insurance benefit paid to the beneficiary is not subject to income tax and the policy owner himself or herself, gets to borrow, in the form of loans, from the cash accumulated by the regular payment of premiums.
So, whatever your needs, plans and aspirations, it is important to understand that a secure and trouble-free way to realize them is under the cover of insurance policies.
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