However, it's typically double
the price as universal life insurance.
Not exact matches
Those matters have arisen from almost every aspect of the development,
pricing, marketing, underwriting, sale, administration and claims handling of whole,
universal, variable and indexed
life insurance,
as well
as variable, fixed and indexed annuity contracts and retirement products.
Acting
as a
universal life policy, the
pricing and structure of the Protective Custom Choice UL plan is similar to a standard term
life insurance policy and a great fit someone looking for keeping a decreasing amount of coverage after the end of the selected term.
Dave has carefully reviewed these new «
Universal / Term» plans and determined that they are a valuable alternative, when
priced competitively, and should be considered
as they offer «low cost protection» similar to traditional term
life plans.
In
universal life (UL), you apply the same calculations to the premium
as you do in term, but instead of taking an average over 10, 20 or 30 years, you pay the average
price to insure yourself to age 100.
Universal life insurance uses the same calculations
as a term
life insurance policy to establish premium, but instead averages the premiums for coverage to age 100 and charges you that
price for the coverage, which is why you pay more for this type of protection vs. term
life insurance.
Besides that, I never recommend
life insurance
as an investment and for lifetime coverage a guaranteed
universal life offers better
pricing and simplicity.
As I have already discussed on this blog, recently, due to many changes in the reserve requirements for
life insurance companies, just about every
life insurance carrier has removed their guaranteed
universal life product from the market or is now introducing a new variation of the old product or new
pricing for the old product.
Given the position of
universal life with a no lapse guarantee
as the best
priced fully guaranteed permanent product available
as of today, a move toward replacing whole
life or traditional
universal life with this extremely valuable product is worth a look.
For clients over 50 who seek tax - deferred capital accumulation
as well
as a death benefit, MassMutual's 11 variable
universal life policies present many growth - oriented investment sub-accounts from mutual fund families, such
as American Funds and T. Rowe
Price Group Inc. (NASDAQ: TROW).
It's available
as both term
life policies (which have more affordable, lower -
priced premiums) and permanent
life policies such
as whole
life and
universal life (which have higher premiums with cash value in addition to a payout).