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Be Wise, Health Insurance Wise

In the last blog, we looked at how to use “deductible” effectively to reduce the insurance premium. Here we are going to look at the difference between Topup and Super topup. The purpose of these health plans is the same. Avail higher coverage while keeping the premium costs lower. First, how do these health plans…

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Be Wise, Health Insurance Wise

In the first blog, we looked at how Room rent capping is not the right way to reduce our health insurance premium. Now let us look see how we can use “Deductible” to reduce insurance premiums. Let us be wise, health insurance wise. Deductible – According to IRDAI “Deductible is a cost-sharing requirement under a…

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NSDL CAS

NSDL CAS or Consolidated Account Statement, provides a beautiful consolidated holdings across different demat accounts for us. In this post, we will look at what CAS means, why its good to view it and how we can request it. CAS can be requested at anytime from the NSDL website. What CAS offers? Let us look…

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Achieving the target retirement corpus!

Well in the previous blog, we talked about how to calculate the required retirement corpus. Now we shall look at some tips and tricks in achieving the target retirement corpus. They key is to understand the asset allocation which would help us in achieving the target retirement corpus. The following important points have to be…

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The ideal retirement corpus target

This is a question many of us ask each other – What is the ideal retirement savings target? What is the retirement corpus I need for retirement? What factors goes into trying to come up with that magic number? To identify the many factors, let us look by dividing the life into two phases 1)…

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