Queries of Life Insurance

I have a LIC policy in my name that is nearing maturity next month, the premiums were all paid by my mother in India. I am US citizen and hold a valid NRE account with SBI. Can LIC submit the money upon maturity into my NRE account, or will i have to open an NRO account?

This is not a concern of LIC but according to the banking norms, all income within India needs to be credited only in an NRO Account of an NRI and only income which is earned outside India can be credited in NRE Account, which is freely repatriable. Money of NRO Account is also repatriable but after the payment of the applicable taxes, if any.

Hence, you would have to contact LIC but they would provide you with a cheque of the maturity amount favouring your name and the sae needs to be credited only in an NRO account. 

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Seek details from insurance agents

You walk into a bank to invest some surplus money in a fixed deposit. The relationship manager offers you another ‘fixed deposit’ linked to a security and gives tax-free interest. Should you go for it? No, because no bank deposit gives tax-free interest and you are being offered an investment-relatedinsurance policy 
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Irda for govt-backed health insurance scheme

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) has strongly come out in support of a government-backed health insurance policy, which is in the works with an aim to provide health cover to a large population. “Why not we have a state-backed health insurance coverage for people when practically all the governments in the world have similar coverage for their citizens,” Irda chairman J Hari Narayan said. He was referring to a meeting of a group of experts in the Planning Commission today on the new health insurance scheme  .http://www.myallagents.com/Irda-for-govtbacked-health-insurance-scheme/details.html

Things to Consider While Buying Insurance

Uncertainty can take place in a person's life any moment, as no one in this world can depict the future. Next moment what can happen no one knows so to protect himself and his loved ones for future and present many people decide on buying an insurance policy?

Not only individuals but also corporations depend on insurance policies, as this is the place where the loss is transferred to a third party who bears the burden. There are two parties concerned in this agreement, the insurer and the insurance company where the policy has been taken. 

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LIC to invest more in state-run enterprises

nsurance companies have been the biggest buyers of equity in 2010. Life Insurance Corp. of India (LIC) has invested nearly Rs7,000 crore since January, chairman T.S. Vijayan said in an interview.

He also spoke of the insurer’s investment plans, and discussed its aggressive bidding at state-run power utility NTPC Ltd’s follow-on public offer (FPO), which has sparked claims that the government was using LIC to lure other institutional investors to its divestment programme. Edited excerpts: 

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