Life Settlement Policy
How Do You Know When A Life Settlement Makes Sense?
During the previous steps we arrive at a life settlement value that is accurate. Then a life settlement agent educates you about the importance of taking into account your financial concerns and priorities before deciding to sell or keep a life settlement policy.
During the analysis step, we look at the numerical significance of selling a life settlement policy NOW, LATER, or NEVER.
Answers to Life Settlement Policy Questions
The NOW/LATER/NEVER Analysis helps answer these important questions about a life settlement insurance transaction:
- How do anticipated life settlement brokers' commissions affect the seller's decision to execute a life settlement now or later?
- How do income taxes affect the decision to sell or keep a life settlement policy and how can tax consequences be reduced?
- What rate of return does the buyer of a life settlement policy expect on their investment?
- What simple but little known fact explains why a life settlement can be a win/win for both buyer and seller?
- How does the cash value affect the proceeds received for a life settlement policy?
- How does the anticipated rate of return on the invested life settlement policy proceeds impact the decision to sell or keep a life settlement policy?
- How does the insured's estimated life expectancy impact the owner's decision to sell or keep a life settlement policy?
- How do time horizons of related financial concerns affect the decision to take advantage of a life settlement?
- How does the premium paid going forward impact the seller's ability to utilize a life settlement at a later date?
- How can reducing the outlay make keeping a policy a more attractive option than executing a life settlement?
Understanding Pricing Elements That Impact Life Settlement Policy Transactions
Understanding the basic structure of a life insurance policy is important to understanding how a life settlement might best work now or in the future. Because most of the policies purchased for a life settlement are either universal life or term that is convertible to universal life, we will focus primarily on how the design of universal life affects a life settlement policy purchase.
Universal Life Insurance Policy Elements
Life insurance polices are made up of three elements:
- Expenses
- Interest
- COI (Cost of Insurance)
Each element has two components:
- Guaranteed
- Projected (Non-Guaranteed)
Of all the elements and components of life insurance, the most important the most important to the life settlement market is the projected (non-guaranteed) COI. This is because it usually represents most of the anticipated cost of keeping a life settlement policy in force from one year until the next. To a life settlement policy buyer the projected COI represents the total cost of keeping a life settlement policy in force until the average life expectancy of a large set of lives with life expectancies similar to that of the insured.
COImgr Focused Analysis
Since the COI is the most important element when it comes to pricing a life settlement policy, we provide an exclusive COImgr pricing analysis to help consumers understand how investors decide what a life settlement policy is worth. Although the analysis takes into account all of the elements of each individual life settlement policy, it places special emphasis on the projected COI. In order to create the analysis we review each specific life settlement policy and an illustration we help the owner of the policy obtain from their life insurance company.
At the conclusion of the analysis, we present the owner with a personalized Now/Later/Never report that helps them compare the financial implications of selling a life settlement policy now, later, or never.
Using COImgr to Manage Expectations and Future Value for a Potential Life Settlement Policy
If the owner decides to execute a life settlement now, our life settlement company moves on to the documentation step and utilizes the contents of the NOW/LATER/NEVER report to help negotiate the highest possible life settlement policy offer from prospective buyers. We also use the report to help the seller understand the offers they receive and how they were arrived at.
If the owner decides not to execute a life settlement now, we can provide additional services to maximize the life settlement policy value later or help them reduce the outlay required to maintain the death benefit for their beneficiaries.