4 - Non-Traditional Life Policies Flashcards
Universal Life is sometimes also known as..
-Flexible Premium Adjustable Life
UL Interest Rates
- “current interest rate”
- applied to the cash account
“Current Interest Rate” is a combination of…
- “guaranteed interest rate”
- “excess interest rate”
UL “target premium” takes into account the desired…
- amount of death benefit
- premium paying period
- amount of cash value accumulation
The solution to an “under-funded” Universal Live policy is to…?
- increase the premiums
- and/or reduce the death benefit
UL policy is referred to as an “unbundled” policy because it separates…
- monthly mortality (cost of insurance)
- investment (interest) earnings
- expenses charged to the policy
What is included in the annual statement provided to UL policy-owner?
- Current death benefit
- Current cash value
- Total premium paid since last report
- Total of expenses deducted since last report
- Outstanding loans
The two death benefit options with UL policies are referred to as…
- Option A
- Option B
UL Death Benefit Option A
- benefit remains level
- always a combo of decreasing amount at risk and an increasing cash account
UL Death Benefit Option B
- level death benefit
- increasing cash account
Between UL DB Option A and B, which require higher premiums?
- Option B
- have to offset higher mortality costs
- usually higher death benefit
The required difference between a UL’s risk component (death benefit) and the increasing cash value is know as…
-“Corridor of Insurance”
If the difference between a UL’s death benefit and the increasing cash value doesn’t meet the required difference set by the “Corridor of Insurance,” the policy is at risk of being considered an investment contract called…
-Modified Endowment Contract
UL Partial Surrenders
- can partial surrender of cash value built up
- death benefit is reduced by amount of withdrawal
- if withdrawal is greater than amount paid in premiums can be subject to taxation
UL Policy Loans
-can make a loan against the policy’s cash value
UL Expense Charges
- front-end load policy
- rear-end load policy