Half truths about Life Insurance (3)

Agents use half truths to get their friends to buy a life insurance policy. Here are some of the half truths that they give.

For a long time, I thought that it was the agent who learned how to mislead their friends. After talking to many undergraduates, I now suspect that they (the undergraduate who sell the policies) were not aware about the truth of life insurance. They were taught to tell the half truths by their agency managers. They (the new agent) thought that they were giving good advice to their friends, but they did not realize that the actual truths was quite far away from what they were saying.

I hope that the new agents will read my book on financial planning or attend my talk. Then, they can decide if they still wish to sell the policies that take away so much money from their friend's future savings. If they do not wish to harm their friend's future, the agent should consider taking another occupation.

Tan Kin Lian