Fortune 500 has released its annual ranking for the largest corporations all over the world. Europe’s largest oil producer Royal Dutch Shell got the number one spot over Exxon Mobil with more than $15 Million in sales. Fortune said, “Shell has made a bold move by investing up to $18 billion in a plant in Qatar that would turn natural gas into cleaner-burning diesel fuel. It hopes to bring the Pearl GTL, as the facility is called, online by 2010 and expects it to produce enough fuel to fill more than 160,000 cars per day.”

Other large corporations who made it on Top 10 are :

2. Exxon Mobil
3. Wal-Mart Stores
4. BP
5. Chevron
6. Total
7. ConocoPhillips
8. ING Group
9. Sinopec
10. Toyota Motor

Other world known companies like General Electric was in Top 12, Volkswagen in 14th place, General Motors and Ford Motor in 18 and 19.

Bill Gates of Microsoft was spotted on 117th place of Fortune 500 list.

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At this modern times, you can buy whole life policy or term life insurance. The idea is to protect your assets like salary and home should you die and your beneficiaries needs financial help.

Generally buying insurance at a young age will guarantee a low premium. Term policies are for a set of period of years. The fine print is pretty straightforward for life insurance but look out for hidden charges.

There may be punitive switching or surrender charges or administration fees if you want to change or get out of a whole life insurance investment early. Term life is usually the most affordable and cost-effective compared to a similar Whole Life Policy.

There’s a saying, “Buy Term and invest the difference”.