Effective November 11, 2019, the overall average increase for Term Essential is 1.9%. Term Elite will also experience some increases. This includes terms for 15, 20, and 30 years; there is no increase for 10-year terms. Pru term products remain competitive and aren’t expected to experience changes for the remainder of the year.
Transition rules can be found HERE.
A series of year-end product moves will help make it easier to position the North American fixed index annuity line-up.
Effective Jan. 1, 2020 the following will be discontinued:
More information available HERE.
Effective October 1st, 2019, PruLife Return of Premium Term (ROP Term) is no longer available for purchase.
PBR/2017 CSO Compliance: Across the industry, insurers have been updating products to be compliant with principle-based reserving and 2017 Commissions Standard Ordinary Mortality Table. After careful consideration, ROP Term will not be updated at this time. Any applications submitted through September 30, 2019, will be processed through the end of 2019. All policies must be placed by December 31, 2019. No exceptions will be granted.
More info available here.
Effective September 16, 2019, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company (Lincoln) will introduce the latest updates to its MoneyGuard solutions suite with Lincoln MoneyGuard® III. For more details, please click here.
Regulatory requirements associated with 2017 CSO mortality tables are impacting how the life insurance industry prices protection products. This includes Prudential’s Term Essential and Term Elite. Effective July 15, 2019, both products will be repriced to reflect new mortality tables.
Term Essential and Term Elite Remain Competitive and Attractive
Some prices have increased, while others have decreased, with many scenarios unchanged. The overall average is a 1.5% increase.
Term Elite will also have the following changes:
Remember, Prudential’s Term Essential and Term Elite offer:
More information available here.
Beginning May 13, 2019, your clients can include chronic illness rider protection with new issues of PL Promise GUL guaranteed universal life insurance policies. Quotes available on Winflex. More information available here.
Effective May 13th, new rates for Banner and William Penn OPTerm 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 include a mix of decreases and increases. No changes to their highly-competitive rates for OPTerm 35 and 40. More information available here.
Beginning April 15, 2019, PL Promise Term life insurance will get more competitive. This reprice reinforces Pacific Life’s commitment to the Brokerage channel and meeting the specific needs of the broad market consumer – affordable death benefit protection solutions. You can rely on Pacific Life to remain committed to the term marketplace and ensure our product remains competitive with innovative solutions.
• We’ve targeted “sweet spot” pricing improvements in the following areas:
– All no nicotine rate classes: Preferred Best No Nicotine Use (PBNN) – Standard No
Nicotine Use (SNN)
– Older ages for 10- and 15-year term periods
– All ages for 20- and 30-year term periods
– All premium bands, particularly under $500K
• Continued competitive strengths in the following areas:
– PL Smooth Sailing fluidless underwriting program (see page 2 for details)
– Competitive Substandard pricing (+20% per table vs. the traditional +25%)
– Competitive Monthly Premium mode (monthly premiums)
More information is available here.
As a reminder, Protective recently made changes to the Protective® Classic Choice Term product in New York to offer it only for cases at and above $1 million. As an additional update, Classic Choice Term cases in New York will no longer be available at the 25-year term period. More information and transition rules available here.
New Competitive OPTerm Pricing: Effective March 18, 2019
New rates for OPTerm 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 include a mix of decreases and increases. No changes to our highly-competitive rates for OPTerm 35 and 40.
Rate decreases in more than 55% of pricing cells improved our ranking against core competitors.
More information HERE.
