Understanding Financial Management of Life Insurance
Life Insurance
Understanding Financial Management of Life Insurance
By Leon Song
What motivated you to start to consider something on life insurance? What is it worth? Risk prevention is always first, life insurance with living benefits or financial management has this specification. Life insurance can help and protect a family.
What fact will decide if some people believe in or buy life insurance?
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There is no need to explain how it impacts and help people. Remember, it is always insurance first. Some critics say insurance is like gambling, you never know what you might get. If they are correct, then they should buy whole life insurance or Indexed Universal Life insurance (IUL). Thus, he or she will win the gamble because there is a guaranteed death benefit or a flexible death benefit. Everyone will depart from the world eventually, so death benefit is received by Beneficiaries of insurance. If an insured does not pass away, when he or she is 99 or 120 years old (99 and 120 are examples, please read the contract for more information), a beneficiary can also get a lot of money although an insured is still living.
Life insurance is not like auto or home insurance. A car or house accident has low risks, so the chances of it happening varies from person to person. However, life insurance is different, although the risk of a fatal accident is very low, it will happen at some point in one's life. In addition to this, there is a benefit cessation date. It means that even if the insureds are living, beneficiaries still get benefits on this day. Therefore, this contract ends. Besides, National Life Group (NLG) also provides life insurance with “living benefits” [1].
In fact, life insurance is not like necessities such as food, clothes, house, and car. People might buy life insurance or not, but if people want to deposit money as they belong to a Middle-class family or above; In other words, they have cash, it is best that those people get personalized life insurance immediately. The reason is that whole life, IUL can not only help people who face an accident, but also help people get cash value, such as education funds, retirement funds, and dividends, etc. It is important that the tax is free.
In conclusion, life insurance, especially, IUL and whole life, not only insurances safety but also helps with financial management. This is a good way to accumulate your assets. It will improve your quality of life.
Advantages of Life Insurance
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Do you understand financial management of life insurance?
If you can say this is an investment, you are right. Exactly, this is life insurance with an investment. Insurance is first, investment is second.
Financial management is a part of life insurance. For certain types of life insurance, if there is no financial management, it is not complete.
When people are investing, they know what to choose. There is no suggestion of buying Variable Universal Life insurance (VUL) because of loss value, including principal. People who use this kind of financial management could see the cash value grow based on the performance of the professionally managed stock, bond and money market sub-accounts that you choose. Therefore, you might make a lot of money or lose a lot of money. There is a high risk.
What is cash value? There is an example. Usually, It is given by
Where P--Premium, C--Cost of Insurance, R--Return of Investment (ROI), n--Policy Anniversary
According to this, we know that the cash value is mainly the paid premiums minus all kinds of insurance costs that is invested, this income can be reinvested and shows the characteristics of "complex interest", so the time of investment is long. After that, the leverage effect is more obvious, and the return is very considerable. This is the power of the annual reset. Annual interest or investment income will be placed on the accumulated balance.
Term life insurance has no cash value, this article does not cover this type of life insurance. Other life insurances, such as Whole life, VUL, IUL have a cash value. In particular, IUL, according to its financial management characteristics, exhibits a very robust feature.
There are a lot of suggestions for buying a whole life and IUL. If you feel ‘whole life’ is expensive, IUL is a very good choice. You can easily find information about IUL. For example, on one hand, cash value grows based on an interest crediting strategy that is tied to changes in a market index such as the S&P 500 [2]. The S&P 500, or just the S&P, is a stock market index that measures the stock performance of 500 large companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. It is one of the most commonly followed equity indices, and many consider it to be one of the best representations of the U.S. stock market. On the other hand, downside protection through minimum guarantees to ensure that your cash value will not decline due to decreases in the Index.
This means IUL has a floor and a Cap of interest rate or ROI. The figure is as follows. Note: Earning rates of Investment, 9%, and 0%, are only examples.
IUL has very low risk. It is a good way to invest for a long time. For example, the average rate of ROI is 10.3% from 1937 to 2016.
It provides income opportunities when the index rises and provides floor protection when the index falls. When the market is performing well, index annuity owners may enjoy better interest rates than traditional fixed annuities. Index annuities do not directly participate in any stock or equity investment. Investments cannot be transferred directly into index annuities. In general, if the market is not good, the maximum probability of other investment returns is negative, but IUL will not because it has a guaranteed floor. Generally, the floor is 0%-2%.
Due to the new Coronavirus epidemic, global stock markets have plummeted, and investors in some accounts may have suffered heavy losses. At this point, IUL's floor protection characteristics have shown a strong advantage. Zero is a hero. This shows that this investment is very robust.
The role of life insurance
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IUL policy cost is not high, which provides easy access for most.
However, money deposition is mandatory. It is beneficial for people who want to save money, especially if a family has more than one child. It is best to buy good coverage of life insurance for every kid considering their futures.
Buying insurance for your child is quick and easy, and costs less than adults. Through withdrawals or loans, your child's insurance policy can help pay for education, weddings, and provide a down payment for the first home, as well as an earlier use of death benefit if you have an eligible illness. In short, life insurance can help your child realize their aspirations and dreams at all stages of life.
Life insurance from NLG has living benefits. These benefits are triggered if you experience a qualifying terminal, chronic or critical illness. This includes any qualifying event triggered by Coronavirus (COVID-19).
This is the reason IUL is a good product and is highly recommended. Anyone (Some visas can be considered to be a US resident, and foreigners need to meet the "foreigner" purchase conditions) can purchase it. People can build education funds, retirement funds, prepare money for your wedding or house, or build a foundation for your business in the future.
In the United States, any income, except for low-income, is subject to tax. Does life insurance not pay taxes? The answer is yes - it is tax-free.
There is an advantage that benefits from life insurance, and that is tax-free, except, Modified Endorsement Contract (MEC).[3]
According to the rules of the IRS (Internal Revenue Service, IRS), if the annual life insurance premium pay exceeds the maximum limit of the IRS, your insurance will be defined as a modified donation contract (MEC) account. Annuity products are similar, and life insurance compensation that the beneficiary finally receives will also lose the "tax-free" concession. As long as we pay attention to the premiums paid, we can completely avoid MEC contracts.
Let ’s take a look. First, when claiming for life insurance, the death benefit is generally a large sum of money. Although the amount is large and often one-off, in the true sense, it is not income. Thus, there is no need to pay income tax. This means that no matter how high the face amount, the beneficiary does not have to pay a penny. Remember that this is insurance, not investment, and therefore tax-free. This is similar to housing insurance. You don't have to pay taxes when you claim housing insurance, but face amount of life insurance is very big. However, it is necessary to pay special attention to this. If the death benefit is not paid in one-off but is paid in installments, more interest will be generated. This is like the interest on bank deposits. This part of interest income is subject to tax.
As for the cash value, it is actually more complicated. In general, there is no need to pay taxes, and it is easy to avoid tax legally. At this time, the specific situation needs specific analysis. This is also simple to understand because you pay the premium with after-tax income, and the value created by the policy, the cash value - which is the value-added to the insurance - is tax-free because the withdrawal is only with the principal or loan. The insurance contract was terminated at this time. It can also be understood this way: the cash value is also in the "insurance pool" because it is insurance, and taking money from it is tax-free.
In summary, Life insurance can be the foundation for your financial future.
Living Satisfied
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Life insurance with financial management functions is also savings, investments, tax-free for income and benefits, so it is cost-effective. IUL can guarantee the bottom to be stabilized, suitable for long-term investment holdings, and not only for insurance but also a good way to manage money and accumulate assets.
Life insurance with Financial management can help people reach their destinies in life. Therefore, they are "Living Satisfied".
This motivates someone to consider buying life insurance, and it was worth it. If only people know more about life insurance, they could open up to this new opportunity in life that comes with great benefits. Life insurance is cheaper when people purchase it at a younger age. At this point, please read my next blog: Understanding the timing of getting life insurance.
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Note:
1. NLG: There are additional benefits associated with our life insurance and annuity solutions provided by optional riders. We call them Living Benefits, and we have been providing them since 1937. Based on the product, living benefits can provide benefits should a qualifying terminal, chronic or critical illness or critical injury occur, or if your desire is to have an income that you cannot outlive.
2. Wikipedia: The S&P 500 stock market index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, comprises 505 common stocks issued by 500 large-cap companies and traded on American stock exchanges (including the 30 companies that compose the Dow Jones Industrial Average), and covers about 80 percent of the American equity market by capitalization. The index is weighted by free-float market capitalization, so more valuable companies account for relatively more of the index. The index constituents and the constituent weights are updated regularly using rules published by S&P Dow Jones Indices. Although the index is called the S&P 500, the index contains 505 stocks because it includes two share classes of stock from 5 of its component companies.
2. Wikipedia: The S&P 500 stock market index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, comprises 505 common stocks issued by 500 large-cap companies and traded on American stock exchanges (including the 30 companies that compose the Dow Jones Industrial Average), and covers about 80 percent of the American equity market by capitalization. The index is weighted by free-float market capitalization, so more valuable companies account for relatively more of the index. The index constituents and the constituent weights are updated regularly using rules published by S&P Dow Jones Indices. Although the index is called the S&P 500, the index contains 505 stocks because it includes two share classes of stock from 5 of its component companies.
3. Wikipedia, a modified endowment contract is a cash value life insurance contract in the United States where the premiums paid have exceeded the amount allowed to keep the full tax treatment of a cash value life insurance policy. In a modified endowment contract, distributions of cash value are taken from taxable gains first as compared to distributions taken from non taxable contributions. In other words, withdrawals will typically be taxed as ordinary income (typically the highest rates for investments) instead of treated as non taxable income.
**All examples used here for illustrative purpose only
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