Summary
There are enormous cost variations among similar life insurance policies. Purchase of a high-cost policy can cost thousands of extra dollars over the insured’s lifetime for the same amount of insurance protection.
The traditional net cost method for determining the cost of life insurance is defective because it ignores the time value of money, and the insurance is often shown to be free.
The interest-adjusted method is a more accurate method for determining the cost of life insurance. The time value of money is taken into consideration by applying an interest factor to each element of cost. If you are interested in surrendering the policy at the end of a certain period, the surrender cost index is the appropriate cost index to use. If ...
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