Finance John Dale on 05 Jan 2008
Life Insurance Policies–protecting Your Future Today
Life insurance policy is very important and it scares the person to talk about his death or how long he will live. It is more like a nightmare to think about your death, so you have to think about your family that you will leave behind you. When the time of claim will come you will be no more in this world leaving your family all alone. You have to take a correct decision because later you can not change your decision.
Common types of Life Insurance policies offered by the life insurance company are: Term Life and Whole of life insurance policies. The least common known type amongst many is variable universal life insurance policies.
Whole of life policies actually combine a life insurance with an investment fund that is built up over time and is held for the benefit of the policy holder. The level of cover and premiums are reviewed at regular intervals and if, in later years, the level of cover cannot be maintained by the premiums being charged then the investment fund can be used to supplement the cost of cover and maintain protection until death.
Whole life insurance policy is one of the long term policies and is the longest lived contract that can ever be made by policy holders. This insurance policy is very flexible and is used for the protection estate from inheritance taxes which are levied on death.
The second common type of life insurance policies i.e. Term life insurance policies are for a period of time. The investment policy is not involved and in addition, the premiums are less expensive. The premium is used to buy the life coverage and when the time for this policy ends there is no tax-return policy.
Unlike Whole of life insurance policies, the term life insurance policies are used for the insurance of mortgages which lasts for a given time period which results in easy calculation of the term. This type is generally bought by those families that have budget problem but due to financial constraints are in urgent need of protecting their properties.
Whole life insurance is more like a variable universal life insurance as variable life insurance contains investment element with life insurance. These policies are very flexible in receiving premium from there policy holders and it depends on there holders what they want to pay.
Variable universal life insurance policies are as much a part of an investment portfolio as your insurance coverage. Being insurance policies they benefit from attractive taxation benefits that are peculiar to insurance policies. Being flexible as to how and when they receive premiums, this allows for their use to shelter capital gains that otherwise are taxable within them.