This is
because life insurance policy dividends are considered to be a return of excess premium.
Not exact matches
A spokesman for Sun
Life Assurance, one of Britain's large institutional investors, says no
insurance company would allow
dividends to slip,
because customers would take their
policies elsewhere.
Cash value
life insurance coverage usually guarantees a rate of return around 4 % with today's interest rates and this return should be viewed as a baseline
because the non-guaranteed portion of the
policy includes
dividends that are tax free and reinvested.
This interest is actually a
dividend from the
life insurance company's yearly profits, and the growth rate is generally low compared to other investments
because life insurance companies have additional expenses (like
policy administration expenses and underwriting costs) that a pure asset manager does not.
The
policy has tax advantages
because the yearly
dividend payments are generally considered return of premium and
life insurance death benefits are tax free.
In addition,
because SBLI is a mutual
life insurance company, this
policy is eligible for
dividends — which can be added to the cash component of the
policy, or in turn used for purchasing additional amounts of
life insurance protection.
Personally, I'd rather keep the
life insurance, use the cash values to supplement my investments and / or use the cash value to pay my income in the years the stock market goes down (like 2001, 2008, etc) so that I don't end up worse off than when I began
because at the end of the day that account can't lose its value, I can't be sued for the value of it, I don't need to report it on my son's FAFSA form for college, AND if I pull money out of it for my son's school, the
dividend still pays the same amount as if I hadn't drawn the money out in the first place (fun fact: that last point isn't something that a northwestern
policy does, but new york
life and massmutual's contracts do).
However, for particular products, such as
dividend paying whole
life insurance, a mutual company will often be the better choice primarily
because the of annual
dividends returned to
policy holders.
Permanent
life insurance has cash value
because it builds savings and can even generate
dividends (for participating
life insurance policies).
In our pool of options to identify the best company offering the ideal whole
life insurance policy for infinite banking, a key consideration is a strong
dividend payment history
because this contributes directly to your ability to accumulate expedited cash value within the
policy.
Because this tax favored environment exclusive to participating whole
life insurance policies is a key advantage, you understand why we tend to prefer mutual companies in our top 10 best
dividend paying whole
life insurance companies list.
This type of
dividend paying coverage is also referred to as participating whole
life insurance because the
policy owner is participating in the
insurance company's profits.
The reason that a quote for whole
life insurance is not so simple is
because oftentimes it is best for clients to over fund a
policy in the early years to increase the
dividend payment, for instance.
Cash value
life insurance coverage usually guarantees a rate of return around 4 % with today's interest rates and this return should be viewed as a baseline
because the non-guaranteed portion of the
policy includes
dividends that are tax free and reinvested.
Consult your
insurance advisor before buying a whole
life policy from a particular
insurance company
because dividends are not always guaranteed.
That's
because life insurance dividends are a return of premiums that you previously paid for the
life insurance policy and the
life insurance dividends reduce the cost of your
life insurance policy and are not taxable on your tax return until they exceed the net premiums you paid for the
life insurance policy.