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ICICI Prudential, a joint venture between ICICI and the UK-based insurance entity Prudential, was among the first private sector life insurance companies to receive regulatory approval late last year.
Since then, ICICI Prudential has launched a handful of products that are analysed below:
ICICI Prudential's life insurance products may be loosely categorised under three forms: pure life insurance products without an investment angle to them; a product that is a mix of a cumulative investment scheme and an insurance product; and, finally, standard products such as money-back and endowment policies.
Single Premium Bond: The Single Premium Bond is the name of a policy that combines the features of an investment in a cumulative deposit scheme with that of an insurance product.
Policy-holders are required to pay a one-time premium based on a target sum assured. At maturity, the policy-holder gets the sum assured and guaranteed additions that work out to a compound return of 4.5 per cent the sum assured.
The insurance part of the package comes in the form of death benefits that are paid in the case of the demise of the policy-holder. The size of the death benefit is linked to the number of years left for the policy to expire. On maturity date, the maturity value is also paid in addition to the death benefits that would have been paid earlier.
Life Guard policies: The company offers two pure life insurance products that have an umbrella name, Life Guard. One of them involves a one-time premium for which there are no maturity benefits. The other requires regular premium payments that are returned at the end of the policy. Life Guard offers absolutely no investment-related return and is suitable for individuals looking for an unadulterated insurance package.