Difference between term and whole life insurance?

Term life insurance provides protection for a specified period of time (e.g., 5, 10, 15, 20, or 30 years) at an affordable cost but premiums increase drastically with age.

Whole life insurance provides protection for your entire lifetime and accumulates a cash value that the policy owner can borrow against.

Term: Want to protect your family from financial hardship in the event of your death. You are underinsured and want to supplement your coverage

Whole Life: Have a long-term need for life insurance. Want to accumulate cash value to borrow against to provide funds for education, retirement or other future goals

Term: More affordable than whole life insurance.

Whole Life: Premiums do not increase with age. Builds cash value.

Term: Does not build cash value. Coverage ends when policy expires. Premiums may increase with age and look negative in later years compared to a whole life policy where cover increases as cash value grows.

Whole Life: Initially higher premiums than term coverage, however later or in older age it pays off.

A well designed whole life plan would ideally serve insurance needs of a person, if they can afford it. Start when no or low loan emi's are there, saving is a habit like spending, after all the money returns to you.

The biggest grouse by pro equity market + term insurance is the earning of the agent. However when buying something you should see what you get not the advisor as everyone in this world has to be paid for work done, just as when buying a car, or a house.