Whole life gains ground from universal life

As level cost universal life insurance rates rise steadily, advisors are seeing whole life in a new light.Dominique Deme…

HEALTH | September 14 2012 01:56PM
Price hikes drag universal life insurance sales

Successive rises in level cost of insurance resulted in a sales decline for universal life in the first quarter of 2012 …

HEALTH | June 21 2012 02:47PM
Universal life sales propel growth in national accounts channel

Canadian insurance sales in the national accounts channel rocketed during the first six months of this year. Boosted by …

HEALTH | September 21 2011 07:36PM
Universal life: level cost still rising

By now, nearly all insurers have hiked their level cost universal life insurance since early 2011. Interest rate and lap…

HEALTH | May 19 2011 02:01PM
Whole life favoured by difficulty of selling universal life

What factors are driving the interest in whole life among advisors and their clients? Brigitte Breton, a consultant with…

HEALTH | April 24 2011 02:38PM
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Universal life: Low interest rates drive up prices

Low interest rates have diminished the profitability of level cost universal life insurance for years. Although fierce c…

HEALTH | March 22 2011 07:19PM
Universal life: policy size increases in the second quarter

In 2010, people started paying excess premiums into their universal life insurance policies again, and the average polic…

HEALTH | September 25 2010 08:22PM