IUL vs. Whole Life Insurance: Who Carries the Risk?
About this episode
This episode compares IUL and Whole Life Insurance, focusing on who carries the risk and the implications for financial planning.
Someone put an IUL illustration in front of you. Maybe it was pitched as "market upside with no downside." Maybe as a "Roth IRA on steroids." Maybe as a way to "be your own bank." And now you're trying to figure out whether any of that holds up, or whether whole life, term, or a Roth IRA actually makes more sense. There's one question that organizes all of it: who carries the risk? With whole life, the insurance company carries it. With an IUL, the risk shifts to you. Everything else in this comparison follows from that single distinction: cost structure, cash value reliability, policy loans, and retirement income. https://youtu.be/JxJqweiyXwU This article covers IUL vs. whole life, IUL vs. term life, IUL vs. a Roth IRA, and the narrow case where an IUL is actually the right call. The goal isn't to tell you IUL is bad. It's to help you see clearly what you're choosing and what job you're asking it to do. Key TakeawaysWhere Does the Risk Live?What's guaranteed vs. what's projectedIUL vs. Whole Life: The Core ComparisonThe cost-of-insurance problemThe 0% floor misunderstandingCaps, participation rates, and spreadsEndowmentLapse ratesIUL vs. Term Life: Two Very Different JobsIUL vs…
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