The no lapse guarantee concept that is
based on external funding for
permanent plans that mirrors the same guarantees used on long, 20 and 30 year, term
life insurance, is a
product that has been needed for a long time.
What differentiates an Indexed UL policy from other types of
permanent life insurance used for cash accumulation is that the growth of the policy's cash value is
based on the performance of an equity index (usually the S&P 500), excluding dividends, collared by a cap and a floor — rather than
based on a flat crediting rate that is established by the
insurance carrier and adjusted from time to time (a
product referred to as «current assumption universal
life»),
based on a flat dividend rate that is established by the
insurance carrier and adjusted from time to time (a
product referred to as «whole
life»), or
based on the actual investment returns of specific equity investments (a
product referred to as «variable universal
life»).