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1.
Insurance can help you manage _______.
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Financial loss due to risk. Insurance is not designed to help you manage risk itself, but rather the financial losses caused by risk.
2.
Insurance is used to manage what?
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Financial risk. Insurance is not made to manage the other options. Its purpose is to manage the financial risks that we suffer.
3.
Life insurance places a value on a person's _______.
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Earning ability. The purpose of life insurance is to pay benefits that replace one's lost earnings ability if one dies.
4.
The best way to shop for insurance is to buy a policy with the lowest premium.
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False. The premium reflects the benefits offered, so a low-cost policy may not have the same benefits of a higher-premium policy.
5.
It is possible to eliminate all risk in personal finance.
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False. Though it is possible to minimize it, no one has yet succeeded in eliminating risk entirely.