Given that life insurance can make up a significant
portion of the assets left by an individual to his or her heirs, it is important not to make the mistake of assuming that any instructions in your will can be used to determine how life insurance death benefit proceeds are distributed.
Not exact matches
Why sell off
assets or
portions of your portfolio, when the golden goose, if
left alone, will likely spit out bigger eggs for the rest
of your life?
Using only a
portion of your portfolio to purchase a DIA
leaves the rest
of your
assets to provide liquidity and market upside.
To be sure, some investors with more than enough money to sustain them will still choose to invest a meaningful
portion of their
assets in stocks, figuring that any excess return will help them
leave more to their heirs.
Receivership involves defending the customer
assets, changing the management, wiping out the common stock and a
portion of the bondholders» claims, continuing the operation
of the institution in receivership, and eventually selling or reissuing the company to private ownership,
leaving the bondholders with the residual.
That's why you would usually want to devote only a
portion of your
assets to these types
of annuities,
leaving plenty
of other savings for
assets such as stock and bond funds that can provide liquidity and long - term capital growth.
You can
leave a specific
asset, or the remainder (or a
portion of the remainder)
of what is
left after all other bequests are made.
However, a federal law allows you a marital deduction so you can
leave an unlimited amount
of assets — including the cash value
of your universal insurance policy's investment
portion — to your surviving spouse.