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2. Life insurance - Wikipedia

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   Life insurance (or life assurance, especially in the Commonwealth of Nations) is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money upon the death of an insured person. Depending on the contract, other events such as terminal illness or critical ...

3. Whole life insurance - Wikipedia

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   Whole life insurance. Whole life insurance, or whole of life assurance (in the Commonwealth of Nations), sometimes called "straight life" or "ordinary life", is a life insurance policy which is guaranteed to remain in force for the insured's entire lifetime, provided required premiums are paid, or to the maturity date. [1]

4. Universal life insurance - Wikipedia

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   Universal life insurance. Universal life insurance (often shortened to UL) is a type of cash value [1] life insurance, sold primarily in the United States. Under the terms of the policy, the excess of premium payments above the current cost of insurance is credited to the cash value of the policy, which is credited each month with interest. The ...

5. Variable universal life insurance - Wikipedia

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   Variable universal life is a type of permanent life insurance, because the death benefit will be paid if the insured dies at any time as long as there is sufficient cash value to pay the costs of insurance in the policy. With most if not all VULs, unlike whole life, there is no endowment age (the age at which the cash value equals the death ...

6. Insurance - Wikipedia

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   Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to protect against the risk of a contingent or uncertain loss. An entity which provides insurance is known as an ...

7. Tontine - Wikipedia

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   Tontine Hotel sign, Ironbridge, Shropshire, UK. A tontine (/ ˈtɒntaɪn, - iːn, ˌtɒnˈtiːn /) is an investment linked to a living person which provides an income for as long as that person is alive. Such schemes originated as plans for governments to raise capital in the 17th century and became relatively widespread in the 18th and 19th ...