There are many benefits to having a well
funded life insurance policy in place.
Not exact matches
Return of premium
life insurance can be a great way to make sure you have
insurance in place for your family
in the event the worst happens, and can also
fund a nice windfall if you outlive the
policy, but an ROP is not for everyone.
Often, these
policies are clubbed with various other investment products such as health
insurance; mutual
funds etc. to increase the return on investment while
life cover stays
in place.
Review the
funds that are
in place, such as savings, Social Security, a pension or other
life insurance policies.
Having a
life insurance policy in place will help allow your family to make the most of other savings opportunities and use those
funds how they were originally intended.
Assess the
funds you have
in place combined with your employer - sponsored
life insurance policy to ensure it's enough to cover your family's needs.
When a wealthy investor
in a very high tax bracket wants to invest
in hedge
funds anyway, it often makes sense to create a privately
placed life insurance policy to shelter the individual from taxes.
Unlike with Whole
Life, where a portion of your monthly premium is
placed in a single tax - deferred annuity account with a fixed interest rate at the time of the purchase of the
policy, the savings portion of your premium
in a UL
policy is
placed in a variety of bonds, mortgages and money market
funds by the
insurance company.