1. 30% of your income must be used for monthly living expenses.
2. 30% of your income must be used for Liabilities repayment, if any..
3. 30% of your income must be SAVED and INVESTED for your future LIVING
4. 10% of your income must be spared for entertainments, vacations
5. 6 months expenses must be available for emergency fund (Should be invested in LIQUID FUND , FD, etc )
6.Home Loan must be registered and apply on both husband and wife name (Both can get Tax benefit on home loan tax benefits)
7. Buying second house for investment is not advisable (Survey reports - it will fetch you only around 3% return)
8. After 45years of age , not supposed to enter into any BIG LIABILITIES (Higher education of children and wedding of children will happen around 45 to 50 only, so plan now for the same )
9. Having joint account @ Bank saving account.
10. Property must be registered on both Husband and wife name. (As per legal act - after husband first legal heir is wife, after wife it will go to childrens only )
11. Regular check on Nominations at all financial instruments. If not nominated, do it now..
12. Only in insurance policy, Claims payable to nominee. In other financial instruments legal heirs certificate is must to getbact the settlements.
13. Must have Term Insurance to financially secure future of your dependants...
14. Don't take any financial investment decisions EMOTIONALLY, and also Avoid last minute tax saving investment decisions, plan well in advance..
15. MEDICLAIM is must (In spit of Group mediclaim coverage given at office ) (After retirement there is no mediclaim coverage after 50-55 years of age, it's very tough and costly to enter into mediclaim )
16. For your Jewelry LOCKER, Only one lakh is payable by bank, if theft or fire happen at bank. Provided insurance is done
17. Like same way government guaranteed only one lakh for your FD also.( Fixed deposits with banks upto 1lak only are backed by deposit insurance )
18. Must know all TAX implications. You can not avoid paying tax. but you can minimize by way of tax planning and investments.
19. All Financial documents must be kept safely and keep family members informed of the same.
20. Review your portfolio at every regular Intervals.
These are general Suggestions, Personal Finance and investment decisions depends upto case to case..
LIC’s Jeevan Lakshya is a participating non-linked plan which offers a combination of protection and savings. This plan provides for Annual Income benefit that may help to fulfill the needs of the family, primarily for the benefit of children, in case of unfortunate death of Policyholder any time before maturity and a lump sum amount at the time of maturity irrespective of survival of the Policyholder. This plan also takes care of liquidity needs through its loan facility. It is available for sale from 12/03/2015.
Example:
Person
Name: Mr.XYZ
Sum
Assured : Rs 5,00,000 ( i.e 5lak)
Person
Age : 30
Policy
Name : Jeevan Lakshya
Policy
Term : 25 Years
Premium
paying Term (PPT) : 22 Years
Pay
Frequency : Yearly
What
is Sum Assured ?
The sum
assuredis
the amount of money an insurance policy guarantees to pay up before
any bonuses are added. In other words, sum
assuredis
the guaranteed amount the policyholder will receive. This is also
known as the cover or the coverage amount and is the total amount for
which an individual is insured
Policy
Term :Policy
term is the duration for which the policy provides you cover.
Premium
Paying Term :Policy
paying term is the duration for which you have to pay the premium.
Jeevan
Lakshya policy Term : In
this policy Min term period is 13Years and Max is 25 years.
PPT
:In
this policy premium paying term is (Policy period minus 3 years)
Pay
Frequency:
Monthly auto payment from bank, Quarterly payment, half yearly
payment, yearly payment options are available in this policy.
In
above example Mr.XYZ took Jeevan lakshya policy for 25 years term
period where sum assured he opted is 5lak rupees (Min Sum assured to
be opted in this policy is 1lak )
He
need to pay premium for 22 years and policy will mature on 25th
year. He no need to pay premium for last 3 years (I.e 23rd
year, 24th
Year and 25th
Year )
Here
for Mr.XYZ yearly premium amount will be approx rs21272
Mr.XYZ
can save tax approx rs6498 every year (Calculated for 30% tax slab )
Total
approx paid premium : rs4,68,375
Approximate
Return at Maturity Time:
Sum
assured : 5lak
Bonus
: 6.12 Lak
Final
additional Bonus : 2.25lak
Total
Approx Return:13.38Lak rupees
Survival
Benefit:-
If
Mr.XYZ survive at end of 25th
year then he will receive 13.38lak rupees from LIC and policy will
get closed at this point.
Normal
Death Benifit:-
If
Mr.XYZ dies unfortunately at 8th
year(No need to pay further premiums) of policy term then his family
will receive 10% of sum assured each year till policy end date. On
policy end date 13.38lak rupees will be handed over to his family.
I.e
here his family will receive 50,000rs per year from 9th
year till 25th
year. In addition to this his family will receive 13.38lak at end of
25th
year.
Accident
death benefit :-
If
Mr.XYZ dies unfortunately at 8th
year (No need to pay further premiums ) of policy term, then his
family will receive 5lak rupees sum assured on 8th
year, then from 9th
year to 25th
year his family will receive 50,000 rs each year and at end of 25th
year his family will receive 13.38 lak rupees.