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How Much Insurance Do I need?
Use this comprehensive needs approach insurance calculator to find out.
Before calculating the insurance amount required for you, please take a moment and recognize that anyone of us can die at any time. Remember how you felt when heard of someone young die suddenly. When you fill this excel sheet you should retain that feeling!
This calculation is pretty much commonsense. If you were die suddenly:
1) all outstanding unsecured loans should be foreclosed
2) provisions should be made for your children to finish school, enter college and marry
3) provisions should be made for all other annual expenses for your family.
The excel calculator provided here offers many options to accomplish the above. It is a comprehensive calculator and the method used is the most accurate one for estimating insurance amount. There are three options provided for estimating the insurance corpus needed to meet your family’s expenses. Choose the one which you are comfortable.
The calculator also shows what % of the corpus to invest goals 1,2 and 3 mentioned above. Whether you follow this calculator or not it is imperative you discuss with your spouse or legal heir about handling the insurance sum received. It is best to let a financial planner handle this.
Download the Needs Approach Insurance Calculator
About the Author

He conducts free money management sessions for corporates and associations on the basis of money management. Previous engagements include World Bank, RBI, BHEL, Asian Paints, Cognizant, Madras Atomic Power Station, Honeywell, Tamil Nadu Investors Association. For speaking engagements write to pattu [at] freefincal [dot] com
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gr8 sir your blog is best blog.
Thanks!
all the calculators are very useful and very important in financial planning
thanks for sharing with all of us.
thanks
tejaswini parandekar
sanchit wealth management, pune.
Thank you very much.
The download link seems to be broken. But wonderful blog and extremely informative
I used the embedded link in the source code and pulled it but you may want to fix the link for other users. Thanks
Hi Pattu san, I am unable to see any link for calculator on the post.
Download the Needs Approach Insurance Calculator does not seem to have any hyperlink for downloading.
Kindly let me know how I can download the same. Thanks.
Sorry about that. I have added the link.
Thanks
Sorry for replying so late. Fixed the download link. Thanks.
thank you very much this is an eye opner that what actually i calculated amount for insurance than what i needed.
I m 24 years old with no other burden on shoulder except earn and invest that money 😀
very nice …make calculation much easier
Hi
The link to the excel seems to be broken, says file not found?
It is fixed now. Thanks for letting me know.
Dear Pattu,
Do you offer consultation services?
Kindly repy
very useful
Thank you.
very helpful sheet.
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