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Kaplan - Unit 3 Flashcards

Basics of Life Insurance

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Third-party ownership

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The owner of a life insurance policy is someone other than the insured.
- Insurer
- Insured
- Owner/applicant

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Insurable Interest

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The person applying for the policy must be at risk of suffering a significant loss if the insured dies. Loss may be emotional, bas on love and affection, or economic, based on the financial dependency such as the insured’s income.

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To Prove Insurable Interest

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  • Have Financial or emotional loss
    + Only have to prove if owner is different than applicant
    -Assumed you have insurable interest when purchasing policy on yourself
  • Insurable interest must be present at time of application only
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Mortgage Payoff

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Mortgage life insurance policy will pay off this debt if the insured dies and assures that their surviving familiy will be able to stay in their home.

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Estate Creation

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For people in their working years, insurance can create an estate if pre-mature death prevents them from doing so themselves.

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Estate Conservation

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Life insurance can ensure the estate is conserved and kept intact for the heirs as the individual intended.

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Liquidity

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How easily an asset can be turned into cash without loss of value.

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Examples of Liquid and illiquid assets

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Liquid
- Bank savings or checking accounts
- Life insurance proceeds (paid in cash)

Illiquid
- Precious metals, gems, stamps
- Real estate
- Farms and farming equipment
- Small or privately held business interests

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Cash Accumulation

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Permanent life insurance policies have a cash value component that grows over time called the policies living benefits.

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Personal Uses of Life Insurance

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  • Survivor Protection
  • Mortgage Payoff
  • Estate Creation
  • Estate Conservation
  • Liquidity
  • Cash Accumulation
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Human Life Value

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To replace an individual’s economic value:

the amount of the individual’s annual income x the number of years until retirement

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Needs Approach

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Used to find the amount of insurance coverage an individual should buy based on the financial situation the survivors will face if the individual dies.

2 categories:
- Cash needs
- Income needs

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Cash Needs

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Can be met with a lump of money:

  • Final expenses
  • Debt payoff
  • Children’s education
  • Emergency fund
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Income Needs

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Ongoing living expenses such as food, clothing, utilities, and a mortgage.

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3 Income Need Periods

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Family Dependency - during this period the surviving children are too young to support themselves and depend on the surviving parent for their needs.

Preretirement - at this point the children have grown up and become self-supporting, but the surviving spouse has not yet reached retirement age.

Retirement - now the surviving spouse is no longer earning an income.

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Blackout Period

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The Social Security Administration provides benefits for surviving spouses during the family dependency and retirement period but not during the preretirement period.

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Data Gathering (or fact-finding)

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Information required for the needs approach.

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Buy-Sell Funding

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Provides for the sale of a business interest at the death or disability of an owner. Often referred to as business continuation plans.

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Entity Plan

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Business entity owned policy on the life of each business owner. If business is a corporation, entity plans are often called stock redemption plans. Usually used with non-incorporated businesses such as partnerships.

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Cross-Purchase Plan

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Surviving owner’s purchase the deceased owner’s interest in the business. When funded by life insurance, each partner owns a policy on the lives of each of the other partners.

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Key Person Coverage

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The business owns, pays for, and is the beneficiary of the policy on the key person’s life.

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Executive Bonus Plans

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A business pays the premiums on a life insurance policy which the employee owns. During life, the employee has full access to the policy’s living benefits, and at death the proceeds are paid to the beneficiary named by the employee.

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Deferred Compensation Plans

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An employer agrees to pay an employee a stated amount of income beginning at retirement rather than paying the money now. In return the employee agrees to work for the employer until a specified future date.

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Business Uses of Life Insurance

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-Buy-Sell Funding
+ Cross purchase
+ Entity purchase
- Key person
- Executive bonus
- Deferred compensation

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Classes of Life Insurance Policies

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Individual VS. Group
Term VS. Permanent
Participating VS. Nonparticipating
Fixed VS. Variable
Industrial & Home Service

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Individual VS. Group

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INDIVIDUAL
- Cost based upon individual insured
- Individual policy issued
- Policyowner chooses amount of insurance

GROUP
- Cost based upon the group
- Policy issued to employer or group sponsor
Employer determines amount of insurance

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Term VS. Permanent

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TERM
- Death benefit only
- Increasing premiums
- Temporary coverage, expires at end of term
- Cannot be renewed (extended) after a certain age

PERMANENT
- Living and death benefits
- Level premiums
- Lifetime coverage; no expiration
- Protection continues through advanced ages

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Participating VS Nonparticipating

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PARTICIPATING
- May pay dividens to policyowner
- Somewhat higher premium
- Can be issued by mutual or stock insurers

NONPARTICIPATING
- Does not pay dividends
- Somewhat lower premium
- Issued by stock insurers

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Fixed VS. Variable

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FIXED
- Guaranteed cash value
- Values expressed in dollar amounts

VARIABLE
- No guarantee cash value
- Values expressed in investment units

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Industrial Life Insurance

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Face amounts are usually small, $2,000 or less - and are often bought to simply help pay burial expenses. Premiums collected by a producer in person.

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Home Service Life Insurance

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A variation on industrial life insurance with larger policies, ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 in face value. Premiums paid through automatic bank draft.

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Premium Elements

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MORTALITY - the relative frequency of deaths in a specific population; death rate.

INTEREST - earnings on premium dollars between the time they are collected and the time they are paid out as claims.

EXPENSES - insurer operating costs. Adding the expense element to insurance premiums is called loading.

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Net Premium, Gross Premium

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Net Premium
+ Net Premium = Mortality - Interest

Gross Premium
+ Gross Premium = Mortality - Interest + Expenses

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Premium Payment Mode

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How frequently premiums come due. They must be paid annually, semi-annually, quarterly, or monthly. Annual is the lowest.

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