Archive for October, 2008

What is the life insurance and consumption and savings model ?

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Planning to get life insurance can vary in complexity. Planning wisely how much life insurance you want is significant.

The life-cycle model of consumption and savings is a new approach that is based on the life-cycle model which was developed in the 1950s and 1960s. This model assumes that an insured’s goals are to secure the living standards of the household and ensure comparable living standards for his or her survivors. In the economic approach, spending targets are derived by deriving how much the household can afford to consume in the present and still be able to preserve the same living standard in the future. Although spending targets under Capital Needs Analysis approach can be adjusted to approximate those derived under the economic approach, there are practical limits to doing so. This is particularly true in the case of households experiencing changing demographics or even facing borrowing constraints.

This approach is based on the fundamental goal of saving money and having life insurance which stems from the desire to avoid major disruptions in a household’s standard of living. This approach uses advanced mathematical techniques to calculate the savings and life insurance needed to balance consumption in the present with consuming in the future and to preserve the household’s living standard for survivors. This method describes how life insurance holdings are adjusted as life insurance needs change. All economic resources, tax liabilities and benefits- social security benefits and survivor benefits, etc are taken into account in the calculation, along with family demographics, tax-deferred savings, housing plans, and special expenditures among others.

 

This type of modeling includes contingent planning, which recognizes that survivors may have special needs and different incomes. Key variables, for instance, age of retirement, social security benefits and tax-deferred asset withdrawals, for example- can be changed to determine how these factors alter the maximum sustainable living standard. Life insurance recognizes recommendations and is substantially different from those of the conventional methods. This type of approach would allow the agent or representative to better determine the extent of life insurance.

Why buy life insurance ?

Friday, October 24th, 2008

People who like Agatha Christie novels - or those who watch the Matlock tv series - know that a person’s body contains generally nine dollars eighty worth of chemicals and useful organic substances. At the other end of the economic scale, a person’s life value is a calculation of what how much we are valuable as persons, and it takes into account our degrees, qualities, and what could we earn. The calculation of a person’s life is mostly made in sad circumstances, death lawsuits for example, where a wife claims for indemnification for the loss of a husband who brings money into the house. For middle aged persons earning one hundred thousand dollars, the amount it is worth in the future can be easily calculated to be in the three to five million range when inflation and normal increases in salary in the future are calculated approximately. In the end, it is the capital amount that counts to replace the persons’ earnings.

In the business of life insurance, replacement of income is used mostly to represent a person’s loss through death, and is generally the first reason why somebody might buy life insurance. It is most of the time acquired out of love. If the household consists of one or two income earners, it is most improbable that the household can survive without income earners. Most people do not have the leisure to put money aside in case a problem might arise. Post people have mortgages, medical expenses, food expenses, and other expenses for insurances such as fire, flood or disability. Given that most household are very short of cash when the end of the month crops up, the consequences of a family losing its main income earner can be catastrophic and sometimes very stressful.

Life insurance and my family

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Life Insurance should be high on peoples priority list if you have a spouse, children, mortgage or business. You can choose the amount you want to be insured for and the length of time depending on your individual needs. You can have a single policy or a joint policy. When an insurance policy is taken out for one person all the insurance is on a single life basis. For two people it can be a joint policy where it covers both lives and would normally pay out event of the life that dies first. If the policy was to cover your mortgage the amount insured needs to cover you’re the total amount of your mortgage, loss of income and any outstanding liabilities. There is no cash value to these protection plans and if the premium stops at any time the plan is cancelled.

Once you know the amount of cover you require the premium will depend on a number of factors, age, sex, medical history and whether you smoke or not, height and weight ratios, family history or hazardous pursuits. The insurance company may send you for a medical with your doctor. In some cases the premium will be increased depending on the above factors and in some circumstances cover may be refused.

You must be over 18 years of age at the time of taking out the protection policy. Your main home address is in the United Kingdom and you have UK bank account. A foreign national must have lived in the United Kingdom for over a year.

I have reviewable life insurance what is this ?

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

There are a few different types of life insurance, all of which suit different circumstances that people maybe in. If you decided that you want to take a reviewable contract then this is generally more affordable when the cover commences. When the policy is reviewed a number of different alternatives to the cover could occur. The premium could go up a little bit, it could remain exactly the same as what it was previously or it could also go down a little bit.

You may imagine that the premiums would be related to your current health, occupation or lifestyle, but once the policy has been underwritten no further medical or underwriting questions can be asked. If the payments are going to change then the majority or providers will inform you in writing immediately.

The opposite of reviewable premiums are guaranteed, these are as the words say guaranteed and they will not change during the length of the cover unless a change is made. Guaranteed remember will be more expensive than reviewable premiums when the cover starts.