Mr. Shah adored his daughter. Everything he provided for her was the best – clothes from the best brands, best toys and the best education. He even sacrificed buying his dream car just to ensure his daughter’s admission in that prestigious school. He made various investments in mutual funds, bonds, fixed deposits, etc. so that he could create a corpus for his daughter’s higher education. He factored in all the constants, except one variable – death. As luck would have it, he met with a fatal accident that took his life. All his investments were utilized to either pay off his loans or to meet the family’s lifestyle expenses over the course of the years. The education fund, which he thought he had created, was wiped out meeting other financial requirements and his daughter struggled to finish off her studies and jumped into a job to provide for her family. Had he factored in a life insurance policy, the result would have been different.