We just had the quadrathlon of our Series- Wealth Creation- The Do- It – Yourself Way… The four stages that we crossed were: Part 1: Net worth, Assets & Liabilities, Personal Balance Sheet Format Part 2: Developing a Monthly & Yearly Budget with Format Part 3: How to Invest, Formulate Goals, and Choose Assets PartRead More
health insurance
How much health insurance should I buy ?
Good health is something most of us take for granted. You must know why is having health insurance important these days. Unless ill health (and we don’t mean a fever) has affected you or someone close to you, it is difficult to comprehend its emotional, physical and financial impact. Investors keep asking how much healthRead More
Do top up health insurance plans make sense ?
To cater to your medical expenses, one can either use a simple health insurance policy, commonly called mediclaim or use a different type of policy called top up health insurance plans. In this article, we try to understand what a top up health insurance policy is and whether it makes sense to have one. HealthcareRead More
All about Critical Illness Insurance
So here is the scenario which helps me drive home the point about the importance of critical illness insurance policy in India. Suppose you are hospitalized with a major heart attack and your spouse is told by the doctor that you need to be operated upon. Big deal you think, you have health insurance orRead More
Health Insurance Portability
Here is another milestone in the general insurance industry in India. Health insurance portability which was to become applicable earlier in the year is now a reality ! So why are we excited ? Well, it gives you another opportunity to make your financial planning more better by being with the insurer who you thinkRead More
Importance of Health Insurance
The need for importance of Health Insurance or having a health policy is a very important one and yours truly got a dose of it himself when he was whisked into a hospital for a week with acute viral fever. Being loaded with adequate health cover (also called mediclaim in India), I was safe withRead More