Trends in Term Insurance in 2025

Trends in Term Insurance in 2026

Term insurance in 2025 evolves with customer-first innovation, digital ease, and diverse plans tailored to modern policyholders’ unique needs.

Written by : Knowledge Centre Team

2025-09-30

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Key Takeaways

 

  • Term insurance plans are becoming more personalised, offering flexible coverage options and customisable add-ons to meet changing life-stage needs.
  • Insurers are embracing digital platforms to simplify policy access, enable online plan comparisons, and enhance customer experience through seamless processes.
  • Business models are shifting towards aggregator platforms, empowering customers to compare and choose policies more transparently and efficiently.
  • Multi-product term plans like Canara HSBC Life Insurance iSelect Smart360 are gaining popularity, bundling life cover with critical illness, accidental death, and disability riders.
  • Greater insurance penetration, especially through technology, is helping reach underserved regions, expanding access to protection and investment tools across India.

As customers increasingly turn to insurance policies as the first option while diversifying their investment portfolio, the industry is also evolving in line with growing customer requirements. Many options now exist for customers who are looking to increase their coverage at a lower cost. Not only do customers want a higher sum assured to benefit their family and dependents after their death, but they also want more add-ons than ever, to cover all eventualities.

For instance, the iSelect Smart360 Term Plan, offered by Canara HSBC Life Insurance, lets you opt for multiple riders, including Life Cover for Spouse, Accidental Total and Permanent Disability Benefit, Child Support Benefits and Accidental Death Benefits. Such additions to a term insurance plan will guarantee your family’s continued well-being even if you are no longer around.

Through this expansion, the insurance industry has seen several developments happen over the last few years. Several key trends in the industry are set to emerge in 2025have been listed below, read on to learn what they are.

1. Increasing Focus on Customer-Centric Products and Services

2025is seeing increasing focus on customer needs, and even the insurance industry is endeavouring to follow that trend by making its products and services more customer-friendly. The lengthy paperwork previously associated with availing the iSelect Smart360 Term Plan by Canara HSBC Life Insurance is increasingly being done away with, as insurers work towards making the processes much smoother for the customer. 

Products are also being increasingly customised, especially in accordance with customer requirements. Customers now increasingly demand a flexible experience, with the capability to interact with their insurance provider whenever the need arises, while also being able to do so from the ease and comfort of their own homes. 

They can also increasingly avail services at their leisure, and align their requirements for a product at their own leisure. Term insurance plans with an increasing sum assured option are in demand as they allow you to increase the Sum Assured as per evolving life stages and needs.

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2. Technology Being Increasingly Integrated With Products and Services

Digitalisation is taking the world by storm, and the insurance industry is not getting left behind. Increasing digitalisation of all products and services now lets customers easily access information on different plans online, browse and analyse the pros and cons between different products and then select their desired plan, which ties in with their requirements. 

Additionally, they can opt to get their own desired add-ons as well, with their iSelect Smart360 Term Plan by Canara HSBC Life Insurance, all from the comfort of their own home. As technology gets increasingly integrated into the insurance industry, the feedback mechanisms will be in action sooner, letting customers enjoy a transparent experience. 

With technology, insurers will also be able to reach out to potential policyholders living in remote parts of the country. Increasing penetration of the insurance industry into the country will ensure that more people remain protected, regardless of where they are located. If you think that buying a term plan online is safe or not, then the answer is YES! It is completely safe to buy a term insurance plan online.

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3. Business Models Will Change

Previously, insurers sold just different types of insurance products. Over time, this has increased to insurance providers providing different types of investment products. In 2025, these business models are set to change further. Aggregators of different insurance products are set to see increased popularity, with customers enjoying the increased convenience in comparing different products and the benefits they offer. 

More business models will shift towards acting as aggregators, in order to help customers weigh their options more carefully and give them all their options in the same place, thereby facilitating an easier exchange for the customer.

4. Multi-product Offerings

With increasing customer requirements, products are also going to be increasingly diversified now. Insurers will be able to offer customers a core product with several add-ons that complement the main product. As disposable incomes continue to rise in India, customers are increasingly more interested in insuring their lives and families while also ensuring their dependents will be well looked after even if they are no longer around. 

With one single policy, policyholders can now insure themselves against a range of illnesses and ensure coverage regardless of the cause of death. Insurance also acts as an excellent investment instrument, thereby letting customers diversify their investment portfolio while also gaining coverage in the process and ensuring their dependents will be well cared for, even when they are themselves no longer around. 

iSelect Smart360 Term Plan, offered by Canara HSBC Life Insurance, is an excellent example of how a term insurance policy can inculcate add-ons that offer additional benefits to the customer apart from the coverage and a huge sum assured.

Conclusion

The insurance industry, like all other businesses, is likely to see some new trends in 2025. All of these indicate that the market will expand and customers will have increased choices of term insurance plans to choose from.

Term insurance offers financial protection, delivers value, flexibility, and accessibility. Insurers are reshaping the way people view term plans with—

  • Evolving customer expectations

  • Rising digital adoption

  • Innovation in product design

For policyholders, this means more control, smarter options, and peace of mind knowing their loved ones are protected, no matter what the future holds.

Glossary

  1. Sum Assured: The guaranteed amount paid to the nominee in case of the policyholder’s demise.
  2. Rider: An additional benefit that enhances a term insurance plan, like critical illness coverage.
  3. Term Insurance: Term insurance is a type of life insurance that offers financial protection for a set period.
  4. Mutual fund: A mutual fund is a pool of money that is invested in stocks, bonds, and other securities.
  5. Financial Dependents: Family members who rely on the policyholder’s income for their financial well-being.
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