What's the difference between universal life insurance and permanent life insurance?

Question

I'm trying to analyze which is the better option at the best price.

Answer 1

A universal life insurance policy works a little bit differently. The premiums that are paid are chosen by the policyholder and do not have to remain constant.

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Answer 2

Forget about both of them. They are a waste of money. Get yourself term insurance and put the difference in an IRA stock index fund. If you don't want risk, put the difference in T-Bills or even CD;S. Anything would be better than permanent life insurance

Answer 3

Waste of money.  don't make the insurance agent or company rich.  Buy term and invest the rest.

Answer 4

Ignore the buy term answers.  I love how people can just assume how long someone needs insurance for.  Obviously if you're asking about something that will last to age 100 you've already determined that you want insurance to last that long.  Naturally if you don't need ALL of your insurance to last that long you could get some term to cover you through the time you probably need the most and then supplement that with permanent coverage.

To answer your question universal life could be considered a permanent plan, but you should only get a universal life that has a guaranteed premium to age 100.  The reason for that is that the policies don't have guaranteed cash values so the policy could require more premiium down the road to keep it going without a guaranteed premium.

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Now if you meant compared to whole life insurance the universal will cost less over time (likely) and won't guarantee your cash values, but if the premium is guaranteed you'll at least know what to expect down the road.