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Update on Interest Sensitive Life Products - Actuary.com

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Lapse Rates<br />

“Lapsers” Leave with Little or No Cash and High Profit to<br />

Company; “Persisters” May Be<strong>com</strong>e Death Claims and Provide a<br />

Lower Profit to Company<br />

– The L<strong>on</strong>ger a Policy Persists, the Lower the Expected Return<br />

– C<strong>on</strong>trasted to Traditi<strong>on</strong>al Universal <strong>Life</strong> Where Returns Are Largely<br />

Unaffected by the Year in Which a Policy Lapses<br />

<strong>Interest</strong> Rate<br />

6.50% 5.50%<br />

Hypothetical Internal Rate of Return<br />

Impact Over Various Hypothetical<br />

Assumpti<strong>on</strong>s<br />

Lapse Rate<br />

5.00%<br />

3.00%<br />

16.1%<br />

11.4%<br />

(4.6% )<br />

Genworth Financial Fall 2004 Southeastern Actuarial C<strong>on</strong>ference<br />

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