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.
W
- waiver of monthly deduction
- A rider that waives universal life insurance costs if the insured
is determined to be totally disabled under the terms of the policy
contract.
- waiver of premium
- A rider that waives the entire premium for a traditional life
insurance policy such as whole life or term.
- Weiss Research rankings
- Formerly an agency that ranked the financial stability of insurance
companies. Now known as The Street.
- wet paper
- A life settlement that takes place during the two year contestable
period of a policy (otherwise know as a "wet paper" transaction. Many
reputable life settlement brokers avoid representing policy owners who
attempt to engage in these transactions.
- Wharton School of Finance
- A respected university that published a 2002 report on the life
settlement industry titled "The Benefits of a Secondary Market For Life
Insurance Policies".
- whole life insurance
- A guaranteed premium permanent life insurance policy that covers
the life of an insured with premiums normally payable for the insured's
lifetime or age 100, whichever occurs sooner.
- withdrawal
- A partial surrender of the cash value from a universal life policy.
- write
- The act of an agent or company completing an application for life
insurance.
- written premiums
- The premiums for insurance applied for by a life insurance agent of
company during a specified time frame.
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