On top of that, there are
often surrender charges for policies that are dropped within the first ten to fifteen years, which can further eat into your cash value.
Not exact matches
Surrender Charge — There's
often a fee that you have to pay if you withdraw any funds within the first few years.
Variable annuities, for example,
often have
surrender periods during which you face
charges of 5 to 9 percent for selling.
Finally, equity - indexed annuities
often carry steep
surrender charges, though some insurers waive them for medical reasons or other emergency expenses.
Often,
surrender charges are waived when you die.
Since converting to the Safe and Predictable world of Fixed Annuities, I find that clients are not used to the concept of
Surrender Charges and this topic
often comes up for discussion.
Teachers must
often select from a confusing array of options, and their choices are
often overloaded with insurance products like annuities and variable annuities that have low returns and expensive fees and
surrender charges.
Often, whole life policies come with a
surrender charge period, during which you would pay a penalty if you
surrender your policy.
The value of the investment is
often subject to a
surrender charge in determining the cash value.
The determination of the cash value, both the base amount and the applicable
surrender charge, in the contract can be explicit by determining the value for each
surrender date (guaranteed cash values), by referring to the value of specific investments or subject to the discretion of the insurance company, which is
often executed to bring cash values in line with values of the investments of the insurance company.
Withdrawals are
often also subject to a small
charge in addition to the
surrender schedule.