Financial Planning

HOW MUCH LIFE INSURANCE COVERAGE SHOULD A PERSON HAVE?

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  • Are you not sure how much insurance do you need?
  • Wondering if the insurance policies (sum assured) that you hold is sufficient?
  • How long your dependents can survive from insurance claim amount received will be sufficient for your family, if you die today?

The amount of Life Insurance coverage a person should have will depend upon Spouse life expectancy, Kids education and marriage expenses, Inflation

Let’s understand through the following case study:

1. Following are Kids education expenses

2. Marriage Costs are as flows:

3. Household expenses cash flow till Spouse age of 80 years

To provide Rs 22,000 monthly withdrawal to family for 50 years (80-30 = 50), corpus required today @ 6% inflation and 8% Risk Free Returns = Rs 86,00,000 .

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