Actuarial Guideline XLIX Will Mandate More Realistic Assumptions for Index-Based Life Insurance Policies
We have written, as recently as June of this year, in Life Insurance Illustration Assumptions…a Trustee’s Dilemma, about the investment assumptions used in life insurance sales illustrations. In most illustrations, all else equal, the higher the return assumed in the investment backing the cash value, the lower the premium shown to carry the policy. Historically, this has led to aggressive sales presentations that illustrate well, but ultimately [...]