Post Office Monthly Income Scheme (POMIS) is a government-backed small savings monthly income scheme. In POMIS, you deposit a lump sum amount in the post office for which you get a regular monthly income. The income you receive comes from the interest generated through the investments. The scheme is only meant for Indian Residents. NRI’s…
Trust me, there is no such thing as “best investment options for Senior Citizens in India in 2019”. Let’s take an example of 2 Senior Citizen friends who have the same amount of corpus in their retirement kitty. The retirement corpus is around 1.4 Crores. Let us name them as Mr. Ram and Mr. Sham…
When it comes to buying a life insurance policy, the things that come to our mind are obvious. These include tax benefits at the time of investments and tax-free maturity proceeds. But what if I say that this isn’t the case for every product of life insurance companies? There is a specified provision for TDS…
In today’s age, one of the most fatal diseases in the world is none other than cancer. The disease has claimed many victims, and it continues to do so daily even while this article is being written. The Indian Society usually discourages people from talking about death or even thinking about it. In simple words,…
Till now, I have written a lot of articles on retirement planning. People usually ask me why I take examples of 1 Crore accumulation in PF or 2 crores in mutual funds. Can you create a sample financial plan for a family with a simple example of financial planning for salaried employee in India? Also…
I really don’t understand why people believe that traditional insurance policies can offer returns up to 10% to 11%. How a young salesman fools’ people into believing that these returns are actually given by the insurance company? Trust me, there’s no debt product in the market that gives tax-free returns to such a high extent….
Three years ago, I had taken a traditional endowment policy from LIC. I have already paid 3 years premium and the next one is due in the upcoming month. Recently, I heard that endowment policies are not good for investments. The returns in the policies are only around 5-5.5% and in some cases returns go…
On July 8, 2019, IRDA came up with some new rules on Unit Linked (ULIPs) and non-linked life insurance plans. Before we proceed any further, take note that this is an informative article and it’s only meant for spreading awareness. According to the revised rules, the chances are that insurance companies will soon launch new…