4 Must-Have Insurances In Your Mid-20s
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Buying insurance is like carrying an umbrella wherever you go. Most of the time, it’s troublesome and you’re annoyed that it takes up space in your bag. However, when the rain does come pouring down (especially in Singapore during the monsoon season), you are happy and relieved that you had it with you all along.
For anyone in their mid-20s, there are four types of insurance plans that you must have in your financial portfolio, to prepare you for that rainy day.
1. Health Insurance
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Health insurance is a type of insurance that reimburses your medical bills and expenses due to hospitalisation. There are various types of health insurance, from Integrated Shield Plans (IPs), hospital cash insurance to long-term care insurance.
Why Do You Need Health Insurance?
No one plans to fall sick or get hurt. However, such things can happen in life due to aging, health complications or accidents. Health issues can sometimes lead to prolonged financial loss, especially if they require you to take long breaks for recovery or they hamper your ability to work. Thus, it is important to be insured against illnesses so that you are able to manage the rising medical costs.
Getting your health insurance while you are still young and healthy makes it more affordable for you. It also prevents you from being excluded from certain coverage as you are still in the pink of health.
Recommended Health Insurance: Enhanced IncomeShield with Applicable Rider(s), available online.
2. Term Insurance
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Term insurance is one of those things that everyone needs, but often tends to be overlooked.
It is a type of life insurance that provides protection coverage against an unfortunate event, such as death, total and permanent disability (TPD) or critical illness, over a limited period of time (such as 20 years, or up to age 100). If death occurs during the period of coverage, your insurer will pay out a lump sum (i.e. sum assured) to your loved ones. Term Insurance does not have cash value as well.
Why Must You Get Term Insurance?
Life is fragile because it is short, and nothing lasts forever. When the worst happens, it is your loved ones that suffers the most, be it financially or emotionally. While insurance cannot lessen the emotional pain, it can alleviate their financial worries. This is especially so if you have dependents that rely on you for income (e.g. your parents and your (potential) family).
You can also enhance your term insurance protection with riders. One of the most common type is the total and permanent disability (TPD) rider. This is an essential rider to get if your term insurance doesn’t come with coverage for TPD. Apart from TPD riders, there are also other types of riders that you can add on to your basic term insurance plan (e.g. dread disease rider, premium waiver rider).
Recommended Basic Term Insurance: TermLife Solitaire
3. Savings Plan
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As an aspiring young adult, you must have a list of financial goals that you are looking forward to achieve. These financial goals can range from saving towards a big life commitment (e.g. dream wedding, first kid or home renovation) or saving for a luxury buy (e.g. wanderlust travel, luxury watch or car). In order to achieve your financial goals, you need to save up a large sum of money.
Why Should You Get A Savings Plan?
Having a savings plan helps you to translate the vision of your financial goal into action. A savings plan is meant to encourage you to stay committed to your financial goal in a disciplined manner, so that you can save the required sum of money and achieve your financial goal by your desired age. In addition, a savings plan may even help you to achieve your financial goal earlier by investing your savings for you in a safe and diversified manner, allowing you to reap non-guaranteed benefits in the form of bonuses.
There are variety of savings plans available in the market to suit your financial goals and needs. While some plans are plain vanilla savings plan, there are plans which pay outs cash benefits on a regular basis.
Recommended Savings Plan: RevoSecure and Limited Pay RevoSave. RevoSecure is available for purchase online.
4. Retirement Plan
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Retiring might sound like a long way to go, but it doesn’t mean that it is something you should take lightly. Most people only start planning for retirement when nearing their 40s as the sense of urgency hits.
However, only starting to plan in your 40s may not be easy, as you will have more constraints to work around. For example, you will probably have more family commitments and responsibilities that will affect how much you can save towards retirement. More importantly, starting to save late also means you have fewer years to enjoy the effect of compounding interest on your savings.
Why Do You Need A Retirement Plan?
A retirement plan is an important aspect of financial planning to help you prepare for your retirement. During your retirement years, your retirement plan will be your main source of monthly cash flow after you step away from full-time employment. Having a solid retirement plan ensures that you are financially stable and secure during your retirement. It will allow you to pursue your desired retirement lifestyle. In other words, it is one of the key determining factors for a happy retirement.
Recommended Retirement Plan: RevoRetire and VivoCash Prime. Both are available for purchase online.
If you are missing any of the must-have insurances, it’s still not too late to get it today. Visit Income’s Adviser Connect to speak to a financial planner now.
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