Entries Categorized as 'ULIP'

LIC Wealth Plus Guarantees NAVs, Mis-sold

Date March 10, 2010

Read Manish Chauhan’s excellent post on Agents misselling LIC Wealth Plus. The product promises the highest NAV in the next seven years, and some agents are trying to sell this by using the NAV of a different policy (that does not have such a guarant…

Beat ICICI ULIPs by Upto 77%, the Do-It-Yourself Way

Date February 15, 2010

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. I was pointed to an ICICI insurance page today that had snazzy little buttons and boxes that showed you how rich you could become if you invested so much per month. So I decided, to create my own littl…

Suckered: ULIPs Stealing Money, Yet Again

Date February 13, 2010

Khushal Devera at Moneycontrol: Sachin’s family want to get their daughter married after she completes her graduation – that is another three years away. They did some calculation and decided they will require Rs 2.5 lakh for the marriage. Sach…

Suckered: 100% commissions with Kotak Smart Advantage plan

Date January 25, 2010

ULIP Advisors just do not know how to stop. Someone who harvested phone numbers from random sources calls me and says he’s from Kotak and selling me a plan that is (Hold your breath) NOT A ULIP. According to him it’s a plan where: You can inves…

ULIP Strikes Again

Date July 10, 2009

Jago Investor, which has become an excellent site, has a post on misselling ULIPs.

The story: A family that had 10 L to invest, gave it to someone they knew in an investment bank, who considered all possible investments and chose the one that made hi…