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2020 IUL Product & Illustration Updates

Coming December 12.

Life insurers across the industry are making changes to adapt to new regulatory illustration guidelines, which limit the way bonuses are illustrated on IUL products. As such, the new illustration regulation requires changes to how current bonuses and loans can be illustrated.

In response, we are pleased to announce some updates that will ensure you can continue to provide your clients with the peace of mind that a National Life Group IUL policy offers.


 

December 12, 2020: New product and illustration updates go into effect.


  • Updates apply to new business and in-force illustrations for NL and LSW IUL policy applications signed and dated on or after 12/12/20.
  • Nothing changes for existing in-force policies.


New bonus features coming December 12, 2020:

  • FlexLife's current bonus structure will be replaced with an Interest Bonus, optimizing illustrated values for your client under the new regulation.
  • New PeakLife policies will offer your clients the flexibility to choose their bonus features, selecting from the current Enhancer Bonus designs or the new Interest Bonus.

Please use these instructions to indicate your client's choice of bonus option on PeakLife paper applications.

Current Bonus Rate Sheets (available for use December 12):

Illustration updates effective December 12, 2020:

  • In new illustrations, the Credit Suisse Balanced Trend index will become the default strategy, offering your clients the largest Interest Bonus for both FlexLife and PeakLife.
  • In new illustrations, the Credit Suisse Balanced Trend index will become the default strategy, offering your clients the largest Interest Bonus for both FlexLife and PeakLife. Illustrations will also allow loan rates to be adjusted upward for Participating Variable and Standard Loans. The Loan Rate field will default to the current loan rate, and you will be allowed to enter a higher rate, subject to a maximum. Additionally, the Loan Rate entered may never be less than the current Loan Rate.

In a time when the marketplace seems unpredictable and volatile, your clients may be looking for a smoother ride. Balanced Trend is a custom index designed to rebalance assets when market conditions fluctuate and it seeks to deliver higher value in a volatile market. By smoothing out the ups and downs, it aims to offer your clients more predictable interest crediting potential in the long term.

At National Life Group, we recognized that shifting trends called for innovative indexed strategies designed to deliver high value in tougher times. When we relaunched our suite of IUL products in 2019, we introduced the Balanced Trend index to add diversification to our interest crediting strategies.





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