The FDIC provides deposit
insurance out of reserves funded by premiums it collects from member banks.
Not exact matches
they are «retaiing» the employee plan — all that means is they are keeping that plan on
reserve with the
insurance provider in the hopes that when this bogus plan is thrown
out, they can pick it back up again without going thru the red tape
of obtaining a brand new policy.
Deposit
insurance is only needed when money is created
out of debt through fractional
reserve banking, and then that debt becomes the basis
of more debt - based lending in a vicious cycle
of deceit.
Life
insurance companies are legally required to keep a specified amount
of reserves on hand — capital that's available to pay
out death benefits in a worst case scenario.
Life
insurance companies have to take into account their number
of policyholders, the amount
of potential benefits they'd need to pay
out, the revenue they're bringing in, and more to determine the amount
of risk they're opening themselves up to, and therefore the amount
of capital they need to have in
reserve.
It is the growth
of this cash
reserve, minus death benefits and annuity income paid
out, minus taxes and expenses, that drives interest rate and dividend growth for life
insurance policy owners.
They are going to figure
out some way to get the monkey off
of their back to provide the large
reserves these policies require and the only other back around is those who purchase life
insurance.
As a result, paying
out the $ 1,000,000 death benefit actually requires the
insurance company to pay only $ 899,000
out of its own pocket, on top
of the $ 101,000 cash value
reserve that was already associated with the policy.
The interpolated terminal
reserve value is a complex calculation the
insurance company will provide to you, and which, in my experience, always works
out to something very close to the cash value
of the policy.
Life
insurance may provide just basic death benefit protection (i.e. term life
insurance) or it may provide a death benefit with an equity value, called a cash value, which is a cash
reserve that builds up against the death benefit
of the policy to cover the costs associated with paying
out the future death benefit claim..