Canara
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Manufacturing NFO: Should
you invest?
Canara HSBC Life Insurance• Страхование’s Manufacturing NFO: Should you invest?
Updated - November 16, 2024 at 08:31 AM.
A lowdown on the features and charges of the new fund offered under the
insurer• Страхование » Страховщик’s Wealth Edge ULIP
By Venkatasubramanian K BL Research Bureau
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Mutual fund companies have had an excellent run rolling out new schemes
periodically over the past few years. And, increasingly, even
sectoral/thematic funds are being lapped up by investors given the possibility
of a high-risk• Страхование » Риск-reward scenario.
Indeed, in the last 12 months, the gross sales of sectoral/thematic funds,
including from NFOs (new fund offers), have been a whopping ₹219,765 crore,
the highest among all fund categories.
Now, life insurance• Страхование companies, too, have jumped into the bandwagon.
Unit-linked insurance plans (ULIPs) came out with their own ‘NFOs’ in the past
year or so, seeking to ride on the mutual funds juggernaut by offering active
and passive products to investors via factor-driven or index-based offerings.
However, sector funds are also making their way via ULIPs. Recently, Canara
HSBC Life Insurance• Страхование rolled out a new manufacturing fund as an investment• Экономика » Финансы » Инвестиции
option for its ULIP and the scheme is open till November 21.
We look at some of the features of this product and the charges involved.
Specifically, ULIPs carry• Экономика » Финансы » Инвестиции » Carry trade
• Экономика » Финансы » Финансовый рынок » Рынок ценных бумаг » Фондовый рынок » Фундаментальный анализ » Carry trade
• Экономика » Финансы » Платежные средства » Валютный рынок » Carry trade higher charges in the initial years, have lock-in
periods, and do not have as transparent disclosures as mutual funds do.
Combining life insurance• Страхование and investments
Insurers such as PNB MetLife• Страхование » Страховые компании » Страховые компании США » MetLife, Inc.
• Объект организация » Организации по алфавиту » Организации на Me » MetLife, Inc., Max Life, Bajaj Allianz• Страхование » Страховые компании » Страховые компании Германии » Алльянц СЕ
• Объект организация » Организации по алфавиту » Организации на Al » Алльянц СЕ Life, and Ageas Federal
Life, among others, rolled out NFOs based on momentum indices, small-caps and
multi-caps. Some even started balanced advantage funds. These offerings were
available with active and passive strategies.
Canara HSBC Life Insurance• Страхование, as mentioned earlier, is offering a new
manufacturing fund benchmarked to the Nifty India Manufacturing fund.
This new fund is offered under its Wealth Edge ULIP. There are 10 fund options
(large-cap, debt, emerging leaders, balanced, and so on) available under the
Wealth Edge ULIP, including the new manufacturing fund.
Investors must note that insurance• Страхование companies offer these ‘fund’ options as
part of their ULIP product line. In ULIPs, you invest in a fund indirectly.
So, a policy allows you to invest in an underlying equity strategy: index,
factor-based, active market-cap-based, etc. However, there can be many ULIPs
offered by the same insurer• Страхование » Страховщик that invest in these very funds. There is no
one-to-one investing like in the case of mutual funds where each scheme has a
unique portfolio.
Therefore, the ULIP product itself would be different, and the funds (NFOs and
existing funds) would be offered as options for policy buyers.
Like a mutual fund NFO, the ULIP fund option is also offered at ₹10 per unit.
And these ULIPs themselves have an insurance• Страхование component and an investment• Экономика » Финансы » Инвестиции
portion.
Wealth Edge offers limited and regular premium payment options. The sum
assured is a minimum of 5-7 times the annualised premium depending on the age
of entry (less than 50 and 50-70, etc.), premium paying term and so on, for
regular payment plans. There are loyalty additions made to the fund after the
sixth policy year.
If a policyholder pays all the premiums for the full term, the mortality
charges are returned by adding them to the final fund value. Fund switches are
available with some conditions.
Charges, lock-in and taxation
A ULIP has multiple charges associated with it. So, there would be charges
related to policy administration, mortality, premium allocation, riders,
premium redirection, switching, and a few other heads. There would also be GST
levied.
For the Canara HSBC Wealth Edge ULIP, policy administration charges range from
7-9 per cent for the regular payment option, depending on the amount of
annualised premium paid (₹1.15 lakh to ₹10 lakh and above). From the second to
fifth year, the charges are in the range of 5.5-6.5 per cent. Subsequently, it
is 1 per cent till the tenth year and zero after that.
Mortality charges for a male are in band of ₹0.647-3.105 per ₹1,000 premium
paid depending on the age of the insured (20-50).
Fund management charges are 1.35 per cent for the India Manufacturing fund.
After taking these charges into consideration, gauging the final returns post
these charges is challenging.
Also, with higher charges, the chances of outperformance over standard indices
or benchmarks becomes extremely challenging.
Finally, for any premium of more than ₹2.5 lakh per year on ULIPs purchased
after February 1, 2021, gains are taxed at 12.5 per cent beyond ₹1.25 lakh if
the underlying investment• Экономика » Финансы » Инвестиции is an equity-oriented instrument, going by the
recent July 2024 budget announcements.
What should investors do?
The usual advice of separating investment• Экономика » Финансы » Инвестиции and insurance• Страхование always remains
relevant and important.
Equity ULIPs, more so those with sectoral/thematic offering, are risky. With
higher charges, investor• Экономика » Финансы » Инвестиции » Инвестор returns get eroded.
The new India Manufacturing fund NFO of Canara HSBC Life Insurance• Страхование will invest
60-100 per cent of its portfolio in companies that are into manufacturing and
industrial activities. The remaining 0-40 per cent will be deployed in money
market instruments, liquid funds, short-term investments and fixed deposits.
A combination of demographics leading to strong local consumption, export
demand, global companies looking to de-risk• Страхование » Риск their supply chain from China
dependence and government push in terms of providing incentives have brought
back the vigour in the theme.
The share of manufacturing in India’s gross value added (GVA) is all set to
grow from 15 per cent currently to 20 per cent by 2030. In actual dollar
terms, manufacturing GVA is set to rise 2.8 times from $453 billion in FY23 to
$1.28 trillion by FY30.
But the manufacturing theme is best played via mutual funds, active or
passive.
ULIPs also have a 5-year lock-in, which is another disadvantage, if an
investor• Экономика » Финансы » Инвестиции » Инвестор wants early exit, especially when the underlying is risky like a
thematic/sectoral fund.
Multiple charges
A ULIP has multiple charges related to policy administration, mortality,
premium allocation, riders, premium redirection, switching. GST would be
levied as well.
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Published on November 16, 2024