Life Insurance

Whole life insurance provides permanent protection for your dependents while building a cash value account. With this type of insurance, the insurance company manages the policies various accounts.

It pays a death benefit to the beneficiary you name and offers you a low risk cash value account and tax-deferred cash accumulation.

It provides a fixed premium which can’t increase during your lifetime as long as you continue to pay the planned amount.

It allows the insurance company to exclusively manage the cash value account in your policy.

It provides you the option to receive dividends from your policy or apply them to reduce payments.

It offers you the right to withdraw from the policy during your lifetime.

It will not offer the account flexibility to invest in separate accounts such as money market, stock, and bond funds.

It will not allow you the account flexibility to split your money among different accounts or to move your money between accounts.

It will not offer premium flexibility.

It will not offer face amount flexibility.

Universal life insurance provides permanent protection for your dependents and is more flexible than whole or variable life.

It pays a death benefit to the beneficiary you name and offers you a low-risk cash value account and tax-deferred accumulation.

It allows you to earn market rates of interest on your cash value account.

It offers the right to borrow or withdraw from the policy during your lifetime.

It allows you premium flexibility.

It offers face amount flexibility.

It will not offer you the account flexibility to invest in separate accounts such as money market, stock, and bond funds.

It will not allow you the account flexibility to split your money among different accounts or to move your money between accounts.

Term life is the simplest and least expensive type of policy. It is pure insurance with no cash value account. A term life policy has only one function, which is to pay a specific lump sum to whoever you have designated, upon a specific event = your death.

The death benefit and the policy limit are the same for example: a $500,000 policy pays a $500,000 death benefit. The policy protects your family by providing money they can invest to replace your salary, as well as to cover final expenses incurred by your death.

Variable life insurance provides permanent protection for you and is the type of life insurance with account flexibility for the more risk-oriented policy holder.

It pays a death benefit to the beneficiary you name and offers you low-risk, tax-free cash accumulation.

It allows the death benefit to vary in relation to the fund returns of the cash value account.

It allows you to borrow from the policy during your lifetime.

It offers no guarantee to the amount of cash value during your lifetime.

It does not offer you premium flexibility.

It does not offer you face amount flexibility.

Universal Variable life is the type of insurance which gives you more control of cash value account policy features than any other insurance type.

It pays a death benefit to the beneficiary you name and offers you low-risk tax-deferred cash value options.

It offers separate accounts for you to invest in such as money market, stock, and bond funds.

It offers premium flexibility.

It allows you to make withdrawals or to borrow from the policy during your lifetime.

It stipulates that if you terminate the contract in early years you will receive less cash value total return than in a whole contract.

It requires you, the policyholder, to devote time to manage the accounts. The policies long term success is contingent on the investment you make. It will not work well with small premium amounts because your premium must cover your insurance and your accounts.