sâmbătă, 1 septembrie 2012

Life Insurance- What You Need to Know

By Kelley Jones


A lot of people buy life insurance to ensure that their loved ones will be financially secure when they die. The no. 1 reason why people buy this is income replacement.

Life insurance coverage should also be made available to non-earning caregivers for they also have an economic value.

People who are keen on reaching a particular business or estate-transfer goals also purchase life insurance.

Depending on your goals, many types of life insurance policies abound with huge price differences among different companies that offer the same coverage. There are hundreds of companies in the United States offering numerous of policies. A lot of financial planners recommend that each earner in the family must carry no less than 10 times their yearly income in life insurance to ensure their family is protected.

Here's a step-by-step instruction on how to buy a life policies.

1. Review what your needed life insurance amount should be. Keep in mind that this should be 10 times of what you earn annually.

2. Pick the most apt policy type that meets your goals, whether whole or term.

3. Make a list of insurance companies that has been rated high in terms of financial stability.

4) Shop until you find the best price.

5. Choose an agent that you're comfortable with, the agent that gave you the best coverage at the best price.

A lot can be said for each of the steps, but in reality they are very easy to understand and follow. Number 1 is very obvious. Number 2 is a little trickier.

Life insurance policies have two main types:

Term life insurance, which provides only death protection without any side funds or "cash values" (offering the least expensive cost per $1,000 of death coverage purchased).

Permanent life insurance, which has "cash value" accounts in which a return-on-investment component becomes an often complex and expensive part of the policy (most expensive cost per $1,000 of coverage).

Selecting an insurance company is just a matter of doing research. But what makes the search great is you have the Internet that can give you pertinent information (from customer feedback to ratings) about the companies you get quotes from. This lets you narrow down companies that have the best ratings. Once you've pinpointed which agency offers the best coverage at the best price for a life insurance policy, go ahead and buy it. It's for your loved ones' protection.




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