Types Of Life Insurance Products

Types Of Life Insurance Products:Based on the benefit patterns the traditional Life Insurance products can be categorised into the following types:Term Insurance,Whole Life Insurance, Endowment Insurance,Annuities
Whole of Life Assurance:As the name suggests, the whole life insurance policies are intended to provide Life Insurance protection over one's lifetime. The essence of whole life insurance is that it provides for payment of the assured amount upon the insured's death regardless of when it occurs. Under these policies, the payment of the assured sum is a certainty in contrast to the term insurance contracts. Only the time of payment of the assured sum is an uncertainty.

Whole life policies can be either participating type or non-participating type. Participating type policies are those which are entitled to a share in the distributable surplus (profits) of the Life Insurance company, whereby the cash value of the policy can go up, with the announcement of bonus / dividend. Non-participating policies have the same benefit throughout the life of the policy.


Endowment Assurance:These are the most commonly sold policies. These policies assure that the benefits under the policy will be paid on the death of the life insured during the selected term or on his survival to the end of the term. Hence the assured benefits are payable either on the date of maturity or on death of the life insured, if earlier.Endowment policies assist in providing for the payment of a lump sum amount for a specific purpose, say, provision for retirement, meeting the needs of the child etc. The money required for the purpose will be built up whether the person is alive till that date or not. Like whole life insurance policies, endowment policies can also be of participating and non-participating types.



Annuities:An annuity is a series of periodic payments. An annuity contract is an insurance policy, under which the annuity provider (insurer) agrees to pay the purchaser of annuity (annuitant)a series of regular periodical payments for a fixed period or during someone's life time.

Non Traditional Covers:Universal Life Insurance (ULI) is another non-traditional type of Life Insurance introduced in the United States in the year 1979, which had an adjustable face value (insurance coverage), floating interest rates based on market conditions and unbundling of savings and protection elements of Life Insurance. After paying an initial minimum premium, policy owners may thereafter pay whatever amount and at whatever times they wish, or even skip premium payments, provided the cash value will cover policy charges. Similarly they had the option to raise or reduce the face value of the Insurance policy. For increasing the insurance coverage proof of continued insurability was insisted.
Under this type of policy (ULI), the policyholder pays an initial premium, which should not be less than a minimum for the given face value and the attained age of the Life to be Insured. From this premium payment, the mortality charge for the first period and the expenses charges will be deducted and the balance will be the policy's cash value. To this cash value a certain interest (depending upon the rate of interest prevailing in the market) will be credited at the end of the period

financial products is the market forces of demand and supply

The financial market in India at present is more advanced than many other sectors as it became organized as early as the 19th century with the securities exchanges in Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata. In the early 1960s, the number of securities exchanges in India became eight - including Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata. Apart from these three exchanges, there was the Madras, Kanpur, Delhi, Bangalore and Pune exchanges as well. Today there are 23 regional securities exchanges in India.The Indian stock markets till date have remained stagnant due to the rigid economic controls. It was only in 1991, after the liberalization process that the India securities market witnessed a flurry of IPOs serially. The market saw many new companies spanning across different industry segments and business began to flourish.The launch of the NSE and the OTCEI in the mid 1990s helped in regulating a smooth and transparent form of securities trading.The regulatory body for the Indian capital markets was the SEBI . The capital markets in India experienced turbulence after which the SEBI came into prominence. The market loopholes had to be bridged by taking drastic measures.

Potential of the India Financial Market -
India Financial Market helps in promoting the savings of the economy - helping to adopt an effective channel to transmit various financial policies. The Indian financial sector is well-developed, competitive, efficient and integrated to face all shocks. In the India financial market there are various types of financial products whose prices are determined by the numerous buyers and sellers in the market. The other determinant factor of the prices of the financial products is the market forces of demand and supply. The various other types of Indian markets help in the functioning of the wide India financial sector.

some of the good financial products

ICICI Bank has launched New financial products name `Global Indian Credit Card' for NRIs. It is an international credit card denominated in Indian rupees and will cater to NRIs visiting India. It can be issued in both India and overseas. The card is available in two variants — Silver with maximum credit limit of Rs 1,00,000 and Gold with maximum credit limit of Rs 3,00,000. The cards also provide insurance, which includes household insurance, baggage insurance and hospitalisation benefits for both primary and add-on cards up to Rs 20 lakh. The card will be accepted at 22 million merchant establishments and the re-payment for purchases can be made through an automatic debit of the customer's savings account.

Bank of Rajasthan (BoR) has launched New financial products like international credit card operations in December 2005. Bank has joined hands with Visa International to facilitate real-time transaction through Visa gateway. Bank of Rajasthan will offer three types of international credit cards - Silver Card, Gold Card and Platinum card. Their features include hospitalisation expenses covered up to Rs 50,000, baggage insurance expenses up to Rs 30,000, purchase protection up to Rs 40,000 and 30 per cent credit limit against cash advance. It has also tied up with Electra Card Services provide complete back-end support for the bank’s credit card business.

New insurence product for indian farmers

The ICICI Lombard has come up with a very good insurance product for Indian farmers who are the most important and yet the most neglected segment of our society. Lombard Insurance along with Weather Risk Management Services has come up with hybrid weather cum satellite imagery based insurance product for farmers in India. Although weather based crop insurance products are not new to Indian agriculture but the distinctive feature of this product is that it uses satellite based imagery to assess crop yields. With the help of this product farmers would take relatively lesser time to estimate the yield of an area by conducting crop cutting experiments. This new product would also help crop monitoring and predicting more accurate food grain production, thus benefitting the farmers tremendously to plan their sales and also the government to avert the possibility of any shortage in food grain production.