Lifelong insurance protection for your family with the potential to grow your wealth tax-free.
It’s lifelong coverage that pays whomever you choose a tax-free payment when you die. Your policy is guaranteed to grow in cash value as long as you pay your premiums. Cash value is the value of the insurance policy that you can access as cash. Your insurance payout is reduced when you access your cash value.
Your payments are pooled in a separate account called the participating account with other policyowners. The funds are professionally managed and may provide you with a dividend.
Strong, flexible and built on a foundation of guarantees, participating life insurance gives you lifelong protection and value you can access for cash.
Narrator: How would you feel if you had insurance protection for your whole life?
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Narrator: Now what if your insurance protection also had value that you could access for cash?
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Narrator: That’s exactly what you get with participating life insurance.
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Narrator: It’s protection that’s built on a foundation of guarantees.
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Narrator: Starting with guaranteed premiums that won’t change.
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Narrator: Name a charity or loved one for the death benefit – whomever you want – so money is available when they may need it most.
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Narrator: Plus, your policy’s cash value is guaranteed to grow over time with tax advantages.
But that’s not all.
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Narrator: We pool money that you, and every other participating life insurance policyowner, pay and put it into a separate account.
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Narrator: That money is professionally managed and used to pay for the expenses, taxes, insurance claims and other items.
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Narrator: If the account performs better than we initially expected, you may get a dividend.
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Narrator: And, you decide what happens to your dividends – take them as cash,
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Narrator: buy more insurance
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Narrator: or pay for your existing coverage.
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Narrator: It’s strong, it’s flexible and it’s there when you may need it most.
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Narrator: That’s participating life insurance.
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Narrator: How would you feel if you had insurance protection for your whole life?
Description: A couple stands together, the woman is pregnant. A line protects them like a roof.Disclaimer appears: “As long as you make required insurance payments.”
Narrator: Now what if your insurance protection also had value that you could access for cash?
Description: The line moves downward and catches them, like a hammock. Disclaimer appears: “As long as your money remains in the policy, within legislative limits.”
Narrator: That’s exactly what you get with participating life insurance.
Description: Text “Participating Life Insurance appears.” A shield is drawn around the text.
Narrator: It’s protection that’s built on a foundation of guarantees.
Description: A line enters into frame.
Narrator: Starting with guaranteed premiums that won’t change.
Description: A block with the text “Guaranteed premiums” builds into frame.
Narrator: Name a charity or loved one for the death benefit – whomever you want – so money is available when they may need it most.
Description: First block is bumped up by another block with the text “Guaranteed death benefit.”Disclaimer appears: “You may have to pay taxes on funds withdrawn or borrowed from your policy. In addition, any withdrawals or loans will decrease the size of your death benefit.”
Narrator: Plus, your policy’s cash value is guaranteed to grow over time with tax advantages.
But that’s not all.
Description: Second block is bumped up by another block with the text “Guaranteed cash value.”
Narrator: We pool money that you, and every other participating life insurance policyowner, pay and put it into a separate account.
Description: Cut to stack of coins. More stacks slide into account. Money is moved out of smaller account into a larger one. Stacks of bills and coins slide in.
Narrator: That money is professionally managed and used to pay for the expenses, taxes, insurance claims and other items.
Description: Some money falls out of larger account into a box that reads text “Expenses, taxes, insurance claims and other items.”
Narrator: If the account performs better than we initially expected, you may get a dividend.
Description: Some money falls again into a box that reads “Dividend.” Disclaimer appears: “Dividends aren’t guaranteed.”
Narrator: And, you decide what happens to your dividends – take them as cash,
Description: Hand reaches into box and pulls out a few bills.
Narrator: buy more insurance
Description: An insurance policy comes out of the box, like a printer
Narrator: or pay for your existing coverage.
Description: Policy is circled as paid.
Narrator: It’s strong, it’s flexible and it’s there when you may need it most.
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Narrator: That’s participating life insurance.
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- Pay your premiums and your policy’s cash value grows tax-free, within limits
- Your payments go into the participating account that is professionally managed
- That money is used to pay for expenses, taxes, insurance claims and other items
- You may receive dividends based on the participating account’s performance
- You can take your dividend as cash, buy more insurance or pay for your existing coverage
- Whomever you choose receives a tax-free payment when you die
Participating life insurance can be more expensive than term and universal life insurance because of the policy’s guarantees.
There are several variables that determine the cost of your policy. Here are a few of the main factors:
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Guaranteed growth
When your policy’s cash value grows, the new total is automatically guaranteed and is protected from declines, unless you use it for some other purpose. The only way it can be reduced is if you use the cash value.
Flexible access
You can access your policy’s cash value in several ways: Borrow from your policy, use it as collateral for a third-party loan or withdraw cash value. This may affect your coverage, and you may have to pay taxes.
If the participating account performs better than expected, we may distribute dividends from these earnings. You can use dividends in one of several ways:
- Increase your coverage, which may increase the policy’s cash value
- Decrease or stop your payments
- Take your dividends as cash
Notify us of a death and/or make a claim on a wealth or life insurance policy bought through an advisor.
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