Traditional Insurance Plans
Traditional insurance plans, which include term, endowment and whole life policies, offer multiple benefits in terms of risk cover, return and safety. Traditional policies are considered risk-free, as they provide fixed returns in case of death or maturity of the term.
What is Traditional Insurance Plans?
A traditional insurance plans, Endowment Life Insurance Plans offers policyholders triple profit in one single plan- saving, insurance and tax benefits. These plans are apt for those who want a guaranteed return. This policy provides insurance coverage to the investor during the policy term.
Types of Endowment Plans:
Why Endowment Insurance Plans?
Guaranteed Returns
These plans ensure that a stipulated amount is paid at the end of the term. If the policyholder lives until the maturity, he/she is given the assured amount. However, in case of the death of the insured, the amount is transferred to the nominee.
Additional Bonuses
The policyholders with with-profit plans are provided with some additional bonuses as well. Under this, additional amount is added to returns at the time of maturity of the policy or in case policyholder's death. Reversionary Bonus and Terminal Bonus are two types of bonuses.
Things to Remember
It is advisable to take the endowment plan for a minimum period of 15-20 years. The amount policy holder receives at the time of maturity is directly related to the number of years of accumulation.
Twin Benefit
You get insurance + savings benefit. You get the money you invest with returns and also a periodic bonus at the maturity of the plan.
Advantages of Endowment Plans:
Dual Benefit
Endowment plans offer the dual benefit of long-term investment and insurance. Apart from paying the sum assured (or accumulated amount minus outstanding premiums, whichever is higher) to the beneficiary in case of the policyholder’s demise, endowment plans also pay a lump sum maturity amount (adjusted after considering company performance and premium defaults) if the policyholder survives the policy tenure. This is a key advantage of endowment policies.
Safe
Even though the returns on endowment plans may be lower, they are risk-free in terms of the sum assured.