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Friday, December 21, 2012

Life Insurance Reviews - A Quick Glance

By Nina Hamm


Life insurance can often be difficult to comprehend at times. It's among those topics that gets rather perplexing. People frequently ponder which insurance is right for them and have a difficult time choosing which generally to go with. Regardless, it is very important to obtain life insurance reviews on a regular basis to make sure that you are covered properly.

It is difficult to know the correct amount of insurance to purchase or if you even need to purchase it at all.

The insurance industry has made the idea much more hard to determine what type of life insurance meets your needs by creating numerous confusing names; guaranteed whole life, universal life, term life insurance, index universal life.

Many policies can offer different riders that will provide you with a return of premium if the policy is never used or the ability to build up cash value. Some of these invest the cash value in to the stock market or index-like investments while others pay out a fixed interest rate of return much like you get with a fixed annuity or perhaps a CD at your community lender. To make it even more difficult to understand, certain policies offer all of these different riders together.

Do you find yourself slightly confused? That is Why People Review Your Insurance Policies

Recently, a study was done and revealed that 40% of people don't review their insurance coverage on a yearly basis. Personally, with the clients that I am involved with, that percentage is much higher. It is important to realize that many Americans are overpaying for their life insurance coverage. This is why I recommend going over your life insurance coverage on an annual basis so that you completely understand how your life insurance policy works and if it is truly the right amount of coverage for your family.

Depending on how old or perhaps how young you are, a particular type of policy is necessary. If you're raising children, you need to modify at some point in time. There may be a period where you do not need as much life insurance. Maybe it's not a family you are raising, but you are needing to protect your estate. Regularly going over your policy needs will assure that you have the right coverage for the right time in your life.

Again, as times change, so do your life insurance needs and it is important to remember that what you needed 10 years ago may be completely different than what you need now.

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When I am meeting with clients I constantly hear the same story over and over of people who are paying on life insurance policies and are clueless as to why they still have it. They make their monthly payment thinking it's the correct thing to do. In most cases, after I have reviewed it, it is clear that they could have lower premiums and possibly more coverage.

Could you actually recall the very last point in time you evaluated your life insurance coverage?

Is it time to dust off your insurance policies and give them a review?




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