Some types of whole life insurance allow the policyholder to make decisions about how the money is invested, which has the potential to make a policy worth considerably more or less depending on your choices for investments and the general market behavior.
Not exact matches
Two specific
types of permanent
insurance — participating
whole life and universal
life —
allows you take full advantage
of tax - sheltered investing by overfunding it.
The pro
of whole life is that the higher price tag can be mitigated by getting this
type of life insurance policy at a young age, adding specific riders that maximize the cash value up to, but not crossing the line,
of becoming a modified endowment contract MEC, and
allowing you to utilize that cash value in as little as 30 days.
A
type of term
insurance that
allows you to exchange the term
insurance policy for a permanent
life insurance policy (
whole or universal) without having to take a new medical exam.
Whole life insurance is a
type of permanent
life insurance and it provides death benefits and also
allows you to build cash value.
Having multiple policies also
allows you to have different
types of life insurance policies, such as having a
whole life insurance policy and a term
life insurance policy.
Variable
life insurance is a form
of whole life insurance, a
type of policy that
allows you to build up a cash value.
Universal
life is also a
type of permanent
life insurance that also offers death benefits and
allows you to build cash value, the only difference between
whole and universal is that universal
allows for more flexibility to fit your changing needs.
However, this
type of coverage is considered to be more flexible than
whole life insurance, as the insured is
allowed — within certain guidelines — to alter the timing and amount
of the premium, based on their specific needs.
A
type of life insurance that
allows the policyholder to change a term policy into a
whole or universal policy without going through the health qualification process again.
Since
whole life insurance will be with you until that inevitable day it will cost you more than other common
types of life insurance.
Whole life allows the owner to borrow against the cash in the policy.
A
type of term
insurance that
allows you to exchange the term
insurance policy for a permanent
life insurance policy (
whole or universal) without having to take a new medical exam.
As discussed above,
whole life insurance, as well as other
types of permanent
life insurance with cash value,
allows access to the cash value in your policy through policy loans.
It
allows for a greater degree
of flexibility and often lower cost than
whole life insurance, another popular
type of permanent
insurance.
Taking into consideration the tax advantages
of owning
whole life insurance allows you to see this
type of policy in an entirely different light.
It
allows you to buy more
insurance than you might otherwise be able to afford right away because premiums are lower than for other
types of whole life coverage.
This
type of whole life insurance also
allows for lower income individuals to obtain a quality policy at a lower premium cost.
Other
types of insurance include final expenses
life insurance which is only intended to pay for funeral related expenses, and infant
life insurance which is a form
of whole life insurance that is purchased for a young child and
allowed to mature over that person's lifetime.
With
whole life insurance, you can borrow against the amount you have paid in, called cash value, and some
type of policies will even
allow you play an active part in how the money you pay in is invested, which has the potential earn money for you while you are alive.