20/08/2018
What is a life insurance policy? Should I trust Life Insurance Companies?
A life insurance policy helps eliminate the financial distress of your family when something happens to you. When you become disabled, sick, or die, your family's income will diminish or will be gone. A life insurance policy ensures the financial stability of your dependents as they adjust to their new state of finances. Aside from the income replacement and protection it offers, a life insurance policy imparts disciplined saving habit. It can help your heirs pay for the estate taxes when you pass them your properties. It allows you to have a long term investment plan which you can use in the future or upon retirement. As life insurance is liquid, it allows you to take out a policy loan or make a partial withdrawal for your personal use.
Some misconceptions about life insurance policies:
1. It is about dying. No, it is about LIVING and LOVING.
2. It is expensive. No, it is a systematic way of saving, disciplining you to save and helping you build a nest egg which you may withdraw anytime if needed.
Allow me to debunk your doubts about Life Insurance companies. Life Insurance and Pre-Need Companies are different:
Life Insurance industry
* It is a Global industry and more than 100 years in existence
* It serves all financial needs like protection, savings, retirement, estate, investment, education, illness and disability, etc.
* In the Philippines, companies are regulated by the Insurance Commission (IC). They are mandated by the Insurance Commission to have a set of monetary reserves to ensure long term capital adequacy, solvency and liquidity.
* Subject to international rules, practices and ethical standards.
* All financial advisors undergo a qualifying exam and are licensed by the IC. It's is a global profession.
Pre Need industry:
* Started gaining popularity in 1980s in the Philippines
* Claimed to only be found in the Philippines.
* Serves specific needs only. Examples are: education, retirement, memorial, etc.
* The industry used to have no government regulation; companies were only required a SEC registration; its sellers were only accredited by the pre-need company whose products they were selling.
* Only through the enacted Republic Act 98291 (Pre-Need Code of 2010) did the industry come under the regulation of the Insurance Commission. Licensure of pre-need plan sellers is still pending government approval.
Life insurance is not a losing proposition but a win-win proposition! Consider buying now, don't wait for yourself to age or worse, become uninsurable because your age and health affects your insurability.
Trust your Life Insurance Advisors!