Alternately, some universal life insurance contracts have cash
value returns tied to an equity index such as the S&P 500.
Not exact matches
So, while it might be great to be able to put our money to work in an investment vehicle that produced double - digit
returns, we may not be able to afford to
tie up our capital for that long or to sustain huge swings in our portfolio's
value.
not incidentally it allows you
tie down the price level by allowing the medium of exchange to becstrictly dominated in
return by a risk free store of
value.
When home
values over many years of ownership rapidly increase, but their rents don't increase at that same pace, your
return, not on your initial investment, but on the money
tied up in the property drops.
Guaranteed Universal Life Insurance
ties policy cash
value growth to a fixed interest rate of
return
Unfortunately, to protect against such revelations and
tie sponsors down, plan providers often use back end loads and / or provisions to recapture
returns on stable
value funds, leaving many plan sponsors feeling trapped.
Hedging would unduly
tie Fund
returns to the price of oil and other commodities as they drive the foreign exchange
value of the Canadian dollar.
In this case, the plan works similarly to a regular universal life policy, except that the
return on the policy's cash
value is
tied to the performance of a market index (such as the S&P 500).
The CPP Investment Board sees «no compelling reason to hedge equity - related currency exposure,» largely because «hedging would unduly
tie Fund
returns to the price of oil and other commodities as they drive the foreign exchange
value of the Canadian dollar.»
In this case, the plan works similarly to a regular universal life policy, except that the
return on the policy's cash
value is
tied to the performance of a market index (such as the S&P 500).
An indexed universal life insurance policy will have the
return on its cash
value component
tied into an underlying market index, such as the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Variable life insurance has the
return on its cash
value component
tied to underlying investments such as mutual funds (although the funds are not directly invested in these vehicles).
Furthermore, because the cash
value is
tied to the performance of the stock market and the individual investments chosen by the owner, the rate of
return is virtually impossible to predict.
Guaranteed Universal Life Insurance
ties policy cash
value growth to a fixed interest rate of
return