LIC made a profit of ₹23,469 crore in the last 3 months.
It's more than any other company in the country*. Not even Reliance, SBI or HDFC Bank made such profits.
However, a large part of these profits come from the LOSSES their policyholders bear.
How? If you can't pay premium in the second year, you lose 100% of your investment.
Your insurance company is not bound to pay you anything in the case of long-tenure traditional policies.
If you can't pay after the 3rd year, you LOSE 70% of your investment.
For the 5th year, this amount is 50%.
The shocking part is that 36% of LIC's policies lapse in the second year.
Meaning that policyholders lose everything they invested on 36% of the policies.
For the 5th year, this number is 50% (persistency ratio).
Even if you abide by all the conditions, you get back just 4-6% returns.
The government and the regulator need to work on slashing the first-year commissions to agents (the biggest cause of low persistency) and increasing surrender value amounts for customers.
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