If you have a long term horizon then you should take exposure to diversified equity fund. and take pure term insurance for life cover.
you will make much much more money by keeping your investments and insurance seperates.
most of ULIP products will charge you almost 25% of your first installments. compare this with mutual fund product which will charge only 2.25% entry load.
If you invest say Rs. 2500 every month by SIP in a good Equity mutual fund for 10 years calculating at an average rate of return as 15% you will end up making 7 lakhs, if you invest for 20 years it will become 37 lakhs and for 30 years it becomes a whopping 2 crore approximately.
This link will give you comparison about various ELSS schemes.
http://news.moneycontrol.com/mf/gain...=ab&option=eqt
1) SBI Magnum Taxgain is by the far way ahead of the rest in terms returns more then 700% returns in 5 years times. It has also give good dividends for past few years.
(Its promoted by SBI plus it has 5 star ratings)
2) HDFC Top 200, Magnum Global , Reliance growth fund are other good funds.
for insurance LIC Anmol Jeevan and Amulya Jeevan and HDFC term insurance are good products probably the cheapest in the market
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