Thinking About Buying Life Insurance? Use This Checklist First
A few years back, Harvard Business School conducted a study that only confirmed what anecdotal evidence has pointed to all along – that Life Insurance buyers in India would do well to follow the age-old principle of “Caveat Emptor” or “Let the Buyer Beware”. The researchers, rather unsurprisingly, concluded that life insurance agents in India “overwhelmingly recommend unsuitable products, which provide high commissions, and cater to the beliefs of uninformed consumers, even when those beliefs are wrong”
What this effectively means is that instead of educating you and correcting your beliefs as a relatively less informed Life Insurance consumer, most agents will play along with your oft loophole-ridden beliefs instead - just to saddle you with a policy that earns them a sizeable commission.
Good intentions of Life Insurance companies notwithstanding - it would appear that a multitude of factors, most certainly led by the high quantum of commissions payable to agents as well as the significant ‘policy to policy’ variance in pay-outs, serve to distort the objectivity of ‘advice’ dispensed by most Life Insurance agents in our country.
Fortunately for you, then, the Lion’s share of regrettable Life Insurance related mistakes can be sidestepped by running through this simple checklist before you sign above the dotted line. For best results – be resolute in your approach to NOT move forward unless you’ve ticked off all the boxes.
A simple, yet powerful pre-Life Insurance purchase checklist
Unbelievably, this simple nine-question checklist can act as your saviour when it comes to avoiding nearly all Life Insurance related traps. Use it with discipline, and you’ll be doing your personal finances a big favour.
