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<p>Bot: Creating new article from JSON</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>🧮 &#039;&#039;&#039;Net single premium&#039;&#039;&#039; is the [[Definition:Actuarial | actuarially]] determined lump-sum amount that, if collected at the inception of a [[Definition:Life insurance | life insurance]] or [[Definition:Annuity | annuity]] contract, would be precisely sufficient — under specified assumptions for [[Definition:Mortality rate | mortality]] (or survival) and [[Definition:Interest rate | interest]] — to fund all future [[Definition:Insurance benefit | benefit]] payments promised by the policy, with no provision for the insurer&#039;s [[Definition:Expense loading | expenses]] or [[Definition:Profit margin | profit]]. It represents the pure actuarial cost of the insurance promise and serves as a foundational building block in life insurance mathematics, from which [[Definition:Net level premium | net level premiums]], [[Definition:Policy reserves | reserves]], and product pricing are derived.<br /> <br /> 📐 Computing the net single premium involves discounting expected future benefits at an assumed interest rate and weighting each payment by the probability that the insured event (death, survival to a given age, disability) occurs in that period. For a simple [[Definition:Whole life insurance | whole life]] policy, this means summing the present values of the [[Definition:Death benefit | death benefit]] payable in each future year, each multiplied by the probability of death in that year given survival to the start of the policy — calculations grounded in a [[Definition:Mortality table | mortality table]]. For an [[Definition:Annuity | immediate life annuity]], the net single premium equals the present value of annuity payments weighted by survival probabilities. The two key assumptions — the mortality or survival model and the [[Definition:Discount rate | discount rate]] — are typically prescribed by regulators for [[Definition:Statutory reserving | statutory reserving]] purposes but may reflect best-estimate or market-consistent parameters in [[Definition:IFRS 17 | IFRS 17]] or [[Definition:Solvency II | Solvency II]] contexts.<br /> <br /> 💡 Although few policies are actually sold on a single-premium basis (most use periodic premiums), the net single premium concept remains indispensable as a theoretical reference point. It enables actuaries to decompose complex premium structures into their component parts: the net single premium captures the benefit cost, and the difference between it and the [[Definition:Gross premium | gross single premium]] reveals the loading for expenses and profit. In reserving, the net single premium for remaining future benefits minus the present value of future [[Definition:Net premium | net premiums]] yields the [[Definition:Net premium valuation | net premium reserve]] at any point in the contract&#039;s life. The concept also underpins the pricing of [[Definition:Single premium immediate annuity (SPIA) | single premium immediate annuities]], [[Definition:Single premium life insurance | single premium life insurance]], and structured [[Definition:Settlement | settlement]] products where a single upfront payment genuinely funds the entire obligation — making it simultaneously an abstract tool and a practical pricing input.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Related concepts:&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> {{Div col|colwidth=20em}}<br /> * [[Definition:Net premium valuation]]<br /> * [[Definition:Gross premium]]<br /> * [[Definition:Mortality table]]<br /> * [[Definition:Annuity]]<br /> * [[Definition:Policy reserves]]<br /> * [[Definition:Net level premium]]<br /> {{Div col end}}</div>

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