 Ramalingam K,Certified Financial Planner and Investment AdvisorDirector, Holistic Investment PlannersChennai
Dematerialized Insurance Policies:
On September 16, 2013, our honorable finance minister
P.Chidambaram launched IRDA’s insurance repository system (IRS).This system will
insure green initiative, transparency in all the insurance related work and
lower management cost for the insurers. It will also bring down total operative
cost by cutting out printing and dispatching of the documents. Instead,
documents will be sent to your repository account electronically saving much of
the time, energy and money.
With whom can you demat your insurance policies?
To create a repository system, IRDA recently said that
five companies would be provided with the license to form an IRS system. This
license will be valid up to 31st July 2014. This 5 companies are NSDL, CIRL,
SHCIL projects ltd.,
CAMS Repository Services Ltd. & Karvy Insurance Repository
Ltd.
This system will allot a unique number to every
individual and with that, all these life insurance policies will come under one
roof. IRS will have all the data of individual customer in terms of the history
of his/her every claim. Not only will that but data also contain names of
beneficiaries, assignees and nominees. This system will soon have digitized
non-life insurance policies too.
Cost Reduction and Dematerialised Insurance
Policies:
During former days whatever cost of plan may be, insurer
company will have to bear. However, due to dematerialization of insurance
policies, insurance plans will also work out cheaper. In addition, cost
saved on their implementation will be transferred to the policies holder’s a/c.
Advantages of dematerialization of insurance
policies:
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According to IRDA, a policyholder can choose any of
the five repositories to open and maintain his/her a/c.
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Know your customer documents (KYC) like address proof
and identity proof has to be submitted only once that is during the opening
of insurance demat a/c. After that, you need not furnish these documents
while buying new policy.
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It is easy for the clients to update the changes in
address, bank account details or nominee.
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Dematerialization of insurance policies will
facilitate more safety as there is no requirement for maintaining and safe
keeping the physical document.
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This repository account comes to you at free of cost.
You don’t pay anything to avail this repository services or to buy policies
in the demat form.
Disadvantages of insurance demat:
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Although all policies will be handled through demat,
it will not be an operative trading a/c. Here policyholders cannot trade
their policies.
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In regular stock demat account, we keep more number
of shares and other securities. Whereas in repository account for insurance,
we will have less number or policies to keep
How to open insurance Demat A/c?
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Download e-insurance a/c form.
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Send the filled e-insurance a/c Application form to
respective insurer.
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After that, respective Insurance Repository will
generate e-account no. that will be sent to your insurer.
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Insurer will update you with the allotted no. then
will update your policy information on your a/c portal.
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Finally, you will be initiated by your insurer to
successful upload of your insurance policy on your e-portal.
As this repository system is in its primitive form, we
need to wait and watch for the other practical advantages and disadvantages.
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