What a ULIP is actually paying

A ULIP bundles cover, charges and a fund into one product, and the illustration hands you a fund value rather than a rate. Enter the premiums and what you are projected to receive, and this works out the rate hiding behind the projection.

Leave blank if they never said

What you pay

What you get back

Fill in whichever applies. A plan that only pays at the end needs the maturity row alone; one that pays you every year needs the payout row too.

If it includes life cover

A policy is cover and investment in one parcel, and it is only fair to price the cover separately before judging the investment. Skip this if there is no cover.

Compare against

A long-run guess, not a promise

The same engine with the usual numbers already filled in: anything at all · a ULIP · a guaranteed income plan · a chit fund · a company deposit or NCD. If you have the policy document itself, with the sum assured and the bonus rates on it, the endowment calculator works from those instead.

Not connected with any insurer, bank or company, and nothing here is a quote or a recommendation. Every figure above is one you type in; this only does the arithmetic on them. Bonuses and “expected” returns shown in an illustration are usually not guaranteed — enter the guaranteed figures if you want the floor rather than the hope.