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universal-life

  • a word derived from universal life insurance.
    universal life insurance
    noun
    a type of insurance in which the payments of the insured are placed in an investment fund, earnings from which pay the premium on term life insurance while any remainder continues to increase the policy's value.

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For some savers, their existing universal-life insurance policies, which rise without incurring taxes, are working out just fine.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2012

One of Mr. Roth's clients 13 years ago bought a universal-life insurance policy that charged about 4.1 cents per $1,000 of coverage, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2012

In the mid to late 1980s, universal-life insurance policies generated at least one-fourth of all life-insurance premiums, according to Limra, an industry-funded insurance research firm.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2012

In the late 1990s, many universal-life accounts paid interest rates of 7% to 8% a year, says Jeremy Kisner, a certified financial planner at SureVest Capital Management in Phoenix.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2012

For that reason, term-insurance premiums may be only 20% of what customers pay for the more common whole-life and universal-life policies, which still make up about 89% of the U.S. market.

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