About SBI Life- Smart Elite

SBI Insurance company has been serving the finest insurance products to their customers, such as life insurance, health insurance, motor insurance, or travel insurance. SBI Life Insurance Company has launched a new life insurance plan named SBI Life Smart Elite Plan that provides financial protection for your better tomorrow.

SBI Smart Elite Policy is a unit-linked and non-participating insurance plan that provides life cover along with investment growth. The plan provides flexibility to pay premiums for limited-term or a single premium, thus offering protection for the long term. This ULIP has been crafted for High Net Worth Individuals.

Plan Options

• Gold Option
• Platinum Option

Both Gold and Platinum options allow the assured to choose a higher sum assured or fund value or both.

Key Features of SBI Life- Smart Elite

• Flexibility to pay premiums for 7, 10, or 12 years or a single payment as per your requirements.
• Premium allocation charges are not applicable from the 6th policy year onwards.
• The plan also offers Accidental Death and Accidental Total and Permanent Disability Benefit automatically.
• The liquidity of the fund value is possible only after the completion of the lock-in period i.e. 5 years.
• A free look period of 15 days is provided to online buyers and 30 days to offline buyers. The policy buyer can cancel the policy within the free look period in the case of any type of dissatisfaction concerning the terms and conditions of the policy.
• The plan provides the assured with a grace period of 30 days. The policyholder can pay the due policy premium within the grace period, failing to which the policy is subject to lapse.
• Insured can get their lapsed policies revived within 3 consecutive years from the date of last paid premium.
• Insured can surrender the availed policy anytime during the time period where investors are not allowed to sell or redeem shares.
• Miscellaneous charges are applied like partial withdrawal charges (Rs.100), switching charges (Rs.100), premium redirection charges (Rs.100), etc.

Benefits of SBI Life - Smart Elite

1 Death Benefits

The plan provides death benefits to the beneficiary in the case of death of the insured as per the chosen plan option.

• Gold Option: The beneficiary will receive the higher fund value as on the date of intimation of claim or sum assured or 105% of total premiums received in case of death.
• Platinum Option: The beneficiary will receive the fund value as on date of claim intimation along with sum assured or 105% of total premiums received till the death date.

2 Maturity Benefits

Maturity benefits are provided under the plan on the completion of the term of the policy. The fund value shall be paid as a lump sum amount on the date of maturity.

3 Premium Payment Option

The plan comes with a single premium payment option. You can also pay the premium for 7 years/ 10 years/ 12 years and get the benefits for the desired policy term.

4 Premium Charges

The fund value enhances from the 6th policy year onwards as there are no premium allocation charges applicable.

5 Life Insurance Coverage

The coverage provided is 10 times the annualized premium for a limited premium payment term. In the case of single premium payment, the coverage provided is 1.25 times the single premium paid under the plan.

6 Switching Option

Insured can switch among the 8 available funds as per the convenience to get better maturity output.

• The minimum Switch amount is Rs. 5000.
• In a policy year, two switches are allowed without charges.

7 Partial Withdrawals

• They are available from the 6th year of policy onwards.
• 1 free partial withdrawal is allowed in a policy year.

8 Tax Benefits

Get Tax benefits on the premium paid as per the provisions of Income Tax Laws. The premiums paid under the Smart Elite plan are tax-free. The death benefits/ maturity benefits/ survival benefits provided under the plan are also tax exempted. Section 80C and 10(10D) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 provides tax leverage on the policy premiums and after-death benefits respectively.

9 Surrender Option

Policyholders can surrender the policy anytime during the entire policy term. Once the policy is surrendered, it cannot revive again.

Plan Options

SBI Life Insurance Company has always been known for offering a wide range of fund options under ULIP plans. Hence, the SBI Life Smart Elite plan comes with 9 fund options to invest and grow as per your financial requirements. You can choose one or a combination of plans at your convenience.

1. Equity Fund

   Provides higher targeting returns and equity exposures in the long term.

2. Balanced Fund

   Fund accumulation by investing in both fixed income sec securities and equities. This helps maintain a balance between safety and return.

3. Bond Fund

   Offers less volatile options for investment through income accumulation and debt instruments.

4. Money Market Fund

   Provides the fund in safe and liquid instruments to avoid market risk on a temporary basis.

5. Bond Optimiser Fund

   Provides easy returns i.e., higher than a pure fixed income fund. The insured benefits from interest earned in income from Fixed Income Investments.

6. Pure Fund

   High Equity exposure and targeting higher returns in the long term. The fund invests in equities other than banks, financial institutions, entertainment, hotels, gambling, contests, leather, animal products and breweries, distilleries.

7. Midcap Fund

   Offers high Equity exposure and targets higher returns in the long term by investing through Midcap companies.

8. Corporate Bond Fund

   Helps earn a steady income for insured persons by investing in debt instruments and optimizing the returns.

9. Discontinued Policy Fund

   Offers comparatively less volatile investments return, predominantly through liquid assets and debt instruments.

Riders

Accidental Death Rider

In the case of accidental death, the accidental death rider will offer benefits equal to the basic sum assured as a lump sum.

Accidental Permanent and Total Disability Rider

It happens many times that an accident leaves you helpless. In such a situation of permanent and total disability, this rider will pay the benefit in 10 equal annual instalments to the life assured.

NOTE: Accidental death benefit rider and accidental permanent/ total death benefit rider are an integral part of SBI Life - Smart Elite Plan. When you buy the plan, you get the rider coverage automatically.

Eligibility

Sample Premium Chart

This graph illustrates the maturity value of a healthy male of 30 and 40 years of age under SBI Life Smart Elite for Sum Assured 15 lakhs, premium Rs. 12,500, and policy term 15 years.

Maturity Value of SBI Life - Smart Elite

Exclusions

• The nominee or the beneficiary will be eligible for the fund value, in case of an unfortunate event such as the death of the life assured because of suicide within the 12 months from the date of inception of the policy..
• Self-inflicted injuries.
• Drug/Substance Abuse.
• Involvement of life assured in a criminal act.
• Hazardous sports injuries.
• Participation of life assured in a flying activity.
• War, invasions, or riot.
• Death or disability caused by any kind of infection.