Human Life Value(hlv)- How to calculate in Life Insurance?
Life insurance is a must-have for every earning person in the family to protect their dependents in case of their absence. Moreover, life insurance protects life dependents financially in his absence. There are a few methods available to calculate the amount of life insurance needed. 1. Human Life Value Method or Income Replacement Method.
Here, In this article, I will give an Excel template to calculate human life value (HLV) too.
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Need-Based Analysis or Expenses Replacement Method is another way to calculate life insurance requirements. This method I will explain in another article.
Human Life Value or Income Replacement Method Calculation for Life Insurance I will explain in this article. This method simply called an HLV method also.
Human Life Value: What is this approach?
Some people in the family will earn, and some members will not earn. The members who are not earning will be dependent on the members who are earning.
There will be a financial loss to the non-earning members of the family if the earning member dies.
Hence, to protect non-earning members (dependents) in the family, earning members of the family may take an insurance policy on their life so that the dependents will be financially secured in case of the sudden death of the earning member.
Human Life Value (HLV) Calculation will tell you your economic value.
This calculation will tell you the total wealth that your family members will lose in your absence.
This calculation takes a few factors into consideration: your age, retirement age, present income, gender, occupation, and your income growth rate, etc.
This HLV method is completely opposite the need-based analysis or expense replacement method for life insurance.
Human Life Value Calculation: Breaking Down…
When using the human-life approach, it is necessary to replace all of the income that’s lost when an employed spouse dies. This figure includes after-tax pay and makes adjustments for expenses (like a 2nd car) incurred while earning that income. It also considers the value of health insurance in his/her name or other employee benefits.
Human-Life Value Calculation…
Step One:
In this step, the present value of future gross earnings must be calculated. To calculate this, you need the following parameters:.
Return expected from Death Received = R
Salary Growth rate expected = G
Number of years expected to work = N
Present Year Gross Salary = PMT
Real Rate of Return = I
Formula for Real rate of return Formula = (1+R)/(1+G)-1
This Real Rate of Return can be calculated
By using return from death claim (R) and salary growth (G).
After this, by entering the values in the below formula in Excel, we get the present value of future earnings of your income.
Step 2
In this step, present value future taxes and self-living expenses of you must be calculated. For this calculation, few parameters are required.
They are..
Real Rate of Return = (1+r)/(1+g) – 1
Here r- means return expected from death claim received and g- means growth rate expected of taxes and self expenses.
Number of years expected to work = N
Present year Taxes and expenses = PMT
The present value of future taxes and self-expenses can be calculated by entering the values in the same formula we used in Excel earlier in the 1st step.
Step 3)
Subtract the value arrived at in step 2 from the value in step 1, and you will get your economic value today.
This value is called human life value, and the calculation method is called human life value or income replacement method for taking life insurance.
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Human-Life Value Calculation Example
A single mother, aged 33, earns Rs. 7.5 lakh p.a., out of which taxes and self-expenses account for Rs. 1.5 lakh p.a., and her salary is expected to rise 10% p.a.
Whereas taxes and personal expenses are likely to rise by 6% p.a., and she expects to work till 58 years, what economic value can you enumerate on her life if she is confident of getting a return of 9% p.a. from investments?
Solution:
Current gross earnings: 750,000 Rs.
The rate of increment of gross earnings is 10% p.a.
Current taxes and expenses: 150,000 Rs.
rate of increment of taxes and expenses: 6% p.a.
The rate of return from investing is 9% p.a.
Current age: 33 years
Expected earnings potential upto 58 years
PV of gross earnings, discounted at growth rate 20,967,027 Rs. PV((1+9%)/(1+10%)-1,58-33,-750000,0,1)
PV of taxes/expenses, discounted at growth rate 2,737,432 Rs. PV((1+9%)/(1+6%)-1,58-33,-150000,0,1)
PV of net earnings 18,229,596 Rs. 20967027-2737432
This example is taken from http://www.fpsbindia.org/Upload/CFPSampleQPaper/Solution1to4-RAIP.pdf
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