Term Insurance vs. Whole life or Permanent Insurance – A Car Analogy
Posted On Monday, September 28th, 2009 By Ravi
Should I lease a car or buy it? Think of a term life insurance policy as leasing a car. When you lease a car you get the benefits of using the car, but when you stop paying you don’t have a car anymore. As with term insurance rates as long as you pay your premiums you get the benefit of the term life insurance policy, but when you stop paying, you no longer have any coverage. Whole life or “permanent policies” are designed to build up a cash value. So similar to buying a car you have an asset that you can keep. Unlike a car, hopefully this asset will grow in value. Whole life, Universal life and Variable Universal life are all different types of permanent insurance. Permanent insurance, most of the time, is meant to keep until you die or as a saving vehicle. The way the policy grows in value gives you the different names of insurance such as, Whole Life, Universal Life, and Variable Universal Life. That leads to the understanding of the different types of permanent policies. ” Whole Life- Is an insurance policy where premium payments are usually the same throughout the life of Continue Reading