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Car insurance, much like any other insurance product, always seems to be really expensive unless you actually have to use it, when suddenly it s the best purchase you ever made. Even so, there s no need to pay too much for this piece of mind so to help get the level of cover you need at the cheapest possible price there are several things you can do to try and convince potential insurers that you are a low risk.

When car insurers provide you with a quote they run through a model that assesses what the potential risk is to decide how much to charge you for your insurance. The lower risk you are, the less you re going to have to pay.

Here are a few of the things they consider when they re deciding how high the risk is so the more of these you can reassure them with, the lower your quote is likely to be:

- They ll ask you if your car is garaged overnight. This is because statistically cars left on the street at night run a much higher risk of theft or damage than if it s safely tucked aw (more...)

The most alluring aspect of whole life insurance besides its death benefit is its investment value. The insurance company will take a portion of your premiums and invest it. As that portion grows in value so will the cash value of your insurance policy.

Many policy holders who reach a stage where they no longer have dependants can greatly benefit from the rise of the cash value of their policies.

Legislation allows policy holders to withdraw the cash value of their policies and enjoy those proceeds tax free. The way that it works is that the policy holder is actually borrowing the money from the policy. The insurance company will then cover the loan from the proceeds of the death benefit, which are usually greater than the cash value of the policy.

So if Mr. Z reaches the age of 65 and no longer had dependants he might decide to withdraw the cash value of his policy. Let s say that the cash value of his $1,000,000 policy is $200,000. He could withdraw the $200,000, use it tax free, an (more...)