Premium Benefit Pattern – Examples

  • The complications begin with a very simple question:
  • What’s the premium for Universal Life?
    • It could be almost anything.
  • Then what’s the cash value?
    • That depends on the premium.
  • It is the relationship between the premium and cash value that determines the product characteristics of Universal Life.

—  Ben H. Mitchell, [Bonk: a consulting actuary with Tillinghast in Atlanta – Years-?]

1981 – SOA – Universal Life (RSA81V7N412), Moderator: Samuel H. Turner, Society of Actuaries – 16p 

  • If that is the case, how does an agent program somebody?
  • How does he tell a person what he needs to pay to keep his premiums level or to have paid-up insurance at age 65?” 

—  Allan W. Sibigtroth

1979 – SOA – Future Trends and Current Developments in Individual Life Products (rsa79v5n44), Society of Actuaries – 24p 

  • “Completely Flexible” – The completely flexible life insurance plans are sometimes called “universal life insurance plans.

1980-2, NAIC Proceedings

  • …it is possible to produce any traditional plan of insurance from the generalized formulas underlying universal life.

—   Alan Richards, president and chief executive officer of E. F. Hutton Life Insurance Co.- (p448)

1983 0510, 0511 and 0728 – GOV (House) – Tax Treatment of Life Insurance – [PDF-991p-GooglePlay

  • … life insurance contracts such as universal life …afford purchasers greater flexibility in designing their contracts so as to meet their individual needs.

—  1981 0831 – Letter – ACLI to NAIC – Statement of the American Council of Life Insurance  to the NASAA NAIC Joint Regulatory Insurance Products Study Committee – 10p

1982-1, NAIC Proceedings

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