Nomination is important and you should ensure that you have nominated a person who will be entrusted with your funds in the case of your death. If you have not made any nomination, in the event of your death, it will be cumbersome for your legal heirs to take control of your investments. By having a nominee, the amount in your mutual investment gets transferred directly to the nominee in the event of your death and the process is fairly simple with nominee to prove his identity. You can change the nominee as many times as you wish to by filling up the nomination form and changing it from your mother to wife.
ICICI Pru LifeTime and ICICI Pru Lifestage are Unit Linked Pension Plans. Such insurance linked retirement plans are neither good investments nor do they offer sufficient insurance cover. As you can see, these have turned out to be bad deals. In the Lifetime plan, the fund value is not even equal to the total premiums that you have paid and in the Lifestage plan your return is just about 6% which is quite low. The mortality charges are as per your age which is why they have increased. Moreover, once these plans matures, you will have to compulsorily opt for annuity (regular income) and the annuity rates are generally modest. Assuming these plans mature in the next one year, it will be wise to surrender the plan now and curb your future commitments. Before you choose to buy a term plan, you have to consider a few points. You need to insure yourself, only during the time you are working and your family is financially dependent on you. At the age of 59, not all insurance companies w...
