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The determination of the cash value, both the base amount and the applicable surrender charge, in the contract can be explicit by determining the value for each surrender date (guaranteed cash values), by referring to the value of specific investments or subject to the discretion of the insurance company, which is often executed to bring cash values in line with values of the investments of ...
An endowment policy is a life insurance contract designed to pay a lump sum after a specific term (on its 'maturity') or on death. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These are long-term policies, often designed to repay a mortgage loan, with typical maturities between ten and thirty years within certain age limits.
Endowment selling is the selling of an endowment policy to a third party instead of surrendering it to the original life assurance company. This is often done in an attempt to gain more money than the value given when surrendering.
A 1035 exchange is the legal process for exchanging one insurance contract or endowment for another. The Internal Revenue Code (IRC section 1.1035-1) allows individuals to exchange one contract ...
Traded endowment policies (TEPs) or second hand endowment policies (SHEPs) are traditional with-profits endowments that have been sold to a new owner part way through their term. The TEP market enables buyers (investors) to buy unwanted endowment policies for more than the surrender value offered by the insurance company.
Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd, often known as Great Eastern Life or simply Great Eastern, is a Singaporean multinational insurance company and subsidiary of OCBC Bank operating in the Southeast Asia region. Founded in 1908 by Alfred Hewton Fair, it is the largest and oldest life insurance company in Singapore and Malaysia.
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A with-profits policy (Commonwealth) or participating policy is an insurance contract that participates in the profits of a life insurance company. The company is often a mutual life insurance company, or had been one when it began its with-profits product line. Similar arrangements are found in other countries such as those in continental Europe.