Archive for February 6th, 2010

College or retirement? Don’t choose one, accommodate both

You know you have a hard choice to make in front of you when you are deciding whether to save for your child’s college education or your own retirement. Only the best for my children—isn’t it the motto of every parent, after all? Especially, the parents who had a hard time funding their own education would never imagine putting their kids through such turmoil. But, let’s face it, there are loans, scholarships and financial aids that can get your child through college, but name one bank that would give out a loan for retirement! In a more generic sense, parents are supposed to have seen their kids through college before they start saving up for retirement. But, very few people start families early enough to meet that goal. In addition to this, college education costs are only rocketing every year. It is estimated by the College Board that an average private education would cost like $287,000 for four years and the same in a public entity would cost up to $133,000 by the year 2020. If you are one of those who are saving up for your kid’s college, didn’t that jolt you out of your senses? Increasing educational costs are rendering several couples without any retirement money or with mortgage payments to be made, forcing them to work throughout their life! There is an urgent need to solve the dilemma and working out both retirement and college into your balance sheet.

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Choose the right type of ‘cheap’ term insurance

Term life insurance does not have all the benefits of a whole life insurance policy. But on the positive side, term life insurance requires you to pay a lot less in premiums. A term life policy runs for a certain length of time during which benefits will be paid out in the case of your death and after the completion of the term, you will have no insurance coverage for life. Many financial experts back up the concept of term life insurance as a very good option when the difference in the premiums between term life and whole life are measured. If the difference is invested elsewhere, you could have a much better return by the end of the term, they say.

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Affordable Term Insurance: let’s deliberate

When we are talking about affordable term life insurance, there is always the minor hiccup to figure out how much is affordable for you exactly. While you have a plethora of term life insurance options online, some claiming to be most affordable and most giving you a list of direct quotes you can decide from yourself, there is still the question of ‘will what is affordable today still remain affordable tomorrow?’ The idea of term life insurance itself is to save a lot of money on hundreds of thousands of dollars worth life insurance when compared to a whole life insurance, while compromising on the fact that you will not be left with any insurance after your term finishes. So, if you are not going to get any insurance benefit after the term or a refund of all the money (except in return-of-premium policy) you invested in the policy, it basically comes down to giving away money for so many years so as to make sure your family is safe ‘if’ something untoward has to happen to you during the term. This is a big ‘if’ is facts and figures are to be considered. Experts say less than 1% claims are benefitted in the case of term life policies.

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