LIFE SETTLEMENT GLOSSARY EXAMPLE
MALE - Age 69
$500,000 10 Year Level Term
- $1,985 Annual Premium
- $13,882 Conversion Annual Premium
Life Insurance Settlement Amount of $16,500
A retiree was about to drop his expiring term policy when he discovered it could be converted and sold using a life settlement.
As a result of the sale, he recovered most of the term premiums he had paid over the past ten years and used the proceeds to offset the cost of an extended tropical vacation.
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- valuation
- For life settlements, a formal appraisal method designed to
determine an accurate life settlement value, without obtaining actual
medical records or bids.
- valuation date
- The date on which life insurance policy cash values are determined.
- valued policy
- A type of insurance policy such as life insurance, that makes a
full payment regardless of the extent of loss.
- variable life insurance
- Life insurance that combines protection with client directed
investments into stocks, bonds, and money market mutual funds.
- variable universal life insurance
- A flexible premium adjustable death benefit form of variable life
insurance.
- viatical
- A life settlement transaction involving an insured whose life
expectancy is under two years.
- viaticals
- A type of life settlement for insured's whose life expectancy is
under two years, the proceeds of which are generally considered to be
tax free.
- viatical insurance
- A life insurance policy that is eligible for a viatical life
settlements.
- viatical life
- A life insurance policy that qualifies for a vitial life
settlement.
- viatical life settlement
- A type of life settlement for insured's whose life expectancy is
under two years, the proceeds of which are generally considered to be
tax free.
- viatical life settlements
- Life settlements that have been executed on the live of insureds
with life expectancies under two years.
- viatical life settlement broker
- A properly licensed individual or entity who owes a fiduciary
responsibility to the policy owner (seller) to represent their best
interest in the negotiation and sale of a life insurance policy by the
policy owner (seller) to a buyer.
- viatical life settlement company
- Generally refers to any entity that is acting as either a viatical
life settlement agent, broker, or provider.
- viatical purchasers
- Institutional buyers or other investors who acquire viatical and
life settlements.
- viatical settlement
- A type of life settlement for insured's whose life expectancy is
under two years, the proceeds of which are generally considered to be
tax free.
- viatical settlements
- Life settlements (typically tax-free) on insureds with life
expectancies under two years.
- viatical settlement broker
- A properly licensed individual or entity who owes a fiduciary
responsibility to the policy owner (seller) to represent their best
interest in the negotiation and sale of a life insurance policy by the
policy owner (seller) to a buyer.
- viatical settlement provider
- An entity that buys life insurance policies through viatical or
life settlement transactions either for their own account or on behalf
of financing entity clients otherwise known as buyers, funders, or
investors.
- viaticate
- The act of selling a policy under a viatical life settlement.
- viator
- The individual or entity who sells a policy using a viatical life
settlement.
- void
- A policy that for a specified reason stated in the policy becomes
no longer in effect, such as an instance where information a
policyholder provided is proven false.
- volatility
- A measurement of the extent of a market's fluctuation either up or
down.
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