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Chapter 13

Buying Life
Insurance

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Agenda

• Determining the Cost of Life Insurance


• Rate of Return on Saving Component
• Taxation of Life Insurance
• Shopping for Life Insurance

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Determining the Cost of Life
Insurance
• The cost of a life insurance policy is the
difference between what you pay and what you
get back
• When determining the cost of life insurance, four
major factors must be considered:
1. Annual premiums
2. Cash values
3. Dividends
4. Time value of money

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Determining the Cost of Life
Insurance
• Under the traditional net cost method, the
cash value and expected dividends are
subtracted from annual premiums to obtain
a net cost per year figure
– This method does not consider the time value of
money

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Exhibit 13.1 Traditional Net Cost
Method

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Determining the Cost of Life
Insurance
• The interest-adjusted cost method is more
accurate because it considers the time value
of money
• Interest-adjusted cost indices come in two
forms:
– The surrender cost index is useful if the owner
expects to surrender the policy after some time
period
– The net payment cost index is useful if the owner
expects to keep the policy in force
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Exhibit 13.2 Surrender Cost Index

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Exhibit 13.3 Net Payment Cost
Index

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Determining the Cost of Life
Insurance
• Interest-adjusted cost indices can be used
to compare policies across insurers
– There is a wide variation in costs indices across
insurers – it pays to shop around!
– Most consumers use premiums as a basis for
comparison, but agents will supply cost indices

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Exhibit 13.4 Comparison of Interest-
Adjusted Costs for Selected Companies

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Determining the Cost of Life
Insurance
• The Life Insurance Policy Illustration Model Act
requires insurers to present certain information to
applicants for life insurance
– The goal is to reduce misunderstanding of policy values
by policyowners, and reduce deceptive sales practices by
agents
– A narrative summary describes the basic characteristics
of the policy
– A numeric summary shows the premium outlay, value of
the accumulation account, cash surrender values and
death benefit
– The act also prohibits certain sales practices and requires
the insurer to provide an annual report
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Rate of Return on Saving
Component
• The annual rate of return earned on the
savings component of a policy is an
important consideration if you intend to
invest over a long period of time
• The Linton yield is the average annual rate
of return on a cash value policy if it is held
for a specified number of years
– Current information is not readily available to
consumers, so the method has limited use

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Exhibit 13.5 Average Annual Rates of
Return for 109 Cash-Value Policies by
Year of Policy

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Rate of Return on Saving
Component
• The yearly rate of return method is based on a
formula:

⎛amount available in the policy ⎞ ⎛ assumed price of the ⎞


⎜ ⎟+ ⎜
⎜ at the end of the policy year ⎟ ⎜protection component ⎟
⎟
⎝ ⎠ ⎝ ⎠ −1
⎛ amount available in the policy ⎞
⎜
⎜at the beginning of the policy year ⎟
⎟
⎝ ⎠

• The information needed for the calculation is


readily available to consumers

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Exhibit 13.6 Benchmark Prices

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Taxation of Life Insurance
• Life insurance proceeds paid in a lump sum to a
designated beneficiary are generally received
income-tax free
– The interest component of periodic payments is taxable
as ordinary income
– Premiums are generally not deductible
– Dividends are not taxable, but interest on dividends
retained is taxable
– If a policy is surrendered for its cash value, any gain is
taxable as ordinary income

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Taxation of Life Insurance
• Proceeds from a life insurance policy are included
in the gross estate of the insured for federal
estate-tax purposes if:
– the insured has any ownership interest
– they are payable to the estate
• The proceeds may be removed from the gross
estate if the policyowner makes an absolute
assignment of the policy to someone else
– The policyowner must make the assignment more than
three years before death

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Taxation of Life Insurance
• A federal estate tax is payable if the decedent's taxable
estate exceeds certain limits
– A tentative tax on the taxable estate value is calculated
• The gross estate includes property you own, one-half of the value of
property owned jointly with your spouse, life insurance death proceeds in
which you have ownership interest
• The gross estate may be reduced by certain deductions, such as a
marital deduction, in determining the taxable estate
• The taxable estate may be reduced or eliminated by a tax credit called a
unified credit
– The amount of property exempt from taxation will increase in the
future
– Federal estate taxes are scheduled to expire in 2010
• Tax will be reinstated in 2011 unless Congress acts

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Exhibit 13.7 Calculating Federal
Estate Taxes*

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Exhibit 13.8 Shopping For Life
Insurance

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Exhibit 13.9 Rating Categories for
Major Rating Agencies

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