Whole life insurance policies from Northwestern Mutual provide a guaranteed minimum baseline interest rate (historically around 4%) on cash value, which is then augmented by annual discretionary policyholder dividends. The current dividend interest rate is 5.75% for most policies. However, the net internal rate of return in early policy years is often near zero or negative due to upfront administrative expenses and agent commission structures, improving gradually over decades of continuous compounding.
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