An investor believes that his
acquaintances, relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbours etc may have better information than him, and that leads him to follow them.
Such choices may be justified by short-term performance, but often lead to bubbles and crashes in the long run.
Small investors keep watching other participants for confirmation, and then end up entering when the markets are over heated and poised for correction.
Kaustubh Deole
As a regular writer & educator on different aspects of Investing, last week i received a call from my old client.
Being a lady, she had concern for her nephew, who was having business & was requiring immediate loan for business purposes.
The nephew had received a call from a reputed lending company & were insisting to buy traditional life insurance policy for getting the loan.
She asked for my help.
Friends, i regularly educate through various forums & blogs.
These revenue greedy companies go at any level for promoting their products. They are least bothered about client & his family as insurance is a contract signed by the client to pay premium for the complete term.
If any death occurs, the death claim or at maturity, the maturity amount is paid to the assignee i.e the lending company.
Analyse, you have taken a loan of 5 lakhs without any financial documents, you don’t have to pay EMI, just pay insurance premium of 60000/- every year for next 10 years.
At maturity after 15 years, the lending company, who is the holder of insurance policy will receive the maturity amount which will not be paid to you.
This is a viscous circle of mis-selling of life insurance policies.
Purpose of Insurance:- “Insurance is a means of protecting financial loss”
Small business owners, new businesses, vendors, housewife’s, salaried employees with additional business are soft targets of these companies.
My advise– Stay away from such offers, invest wisely.
PS: I have complete recording of the above mentioned sales call. If anyone needs to check it, pls comment.
Kaustubh Deole
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