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Historical returns for 30-year payment - 6.7% low, 8.9% median (as of 8/5/25 - all 3 indices)

Historical returns for 30-year payment - 6.7% low, 8.9% median (as of 8/5/25 - all 3 indices)

Historical returns for 30-year payment - 6.7% low, 8.9% median (as of 8/5/25 - all 3 indices)

Historical returns for 30-year payment - 6.7% low, 8.9% median (as of 8/5/25 - all 3 indices)

Historical returns for 30-year payment - 6.7% low, 8.9% median (as of 8/5/25 - all 3 indices)

Historical returns for 30-year payment - 6.7% low, 8.9% median (as of 8/5/25 - all 3 indices)

iStructure Select ®

A 2nd-generation enhanced structured settlement solution engineered to create the opportunity for higher guaranteed payouts.  

When To Use iStructure Select®

Personal Physical Injury

Injury claims resulting from incidents such as medical malpractice, auto negligence, and wrongful death that qualify for Internal Revenue Code Section 104(a)(2).

Workers' Compensation

Litigation involving claims for physical injuries directly related to employment that qualify for Internal Revenue Code Section 104(a)(1).

Attorney Fees

Employment Litigation

attorney fee deferral

Attorney fees that are contingent upon the resolution of the claim can be deferred and are only taxed in the year payments are received from annuity.

Employment Litigation

Structured Installment Sales

Employment Litigation

defer tax on employment settlement

Examples include wrongful termination, harassment, defamation, and whistleblower claims.

Structured Installment Sales

Structured Installment Sales

Structured Installment Sales

defer capital gains on property sale or business sale

 A structured installment sale provides guaranteed income for qualifying property or business sales that are eligible for the installment method under Internal Revenue Code Section 453. 

Name, Image, Likeness (NIL)

Structured Installment Sales

Structured Installment Sales

NIL agreements

Tax-advantaged strategy to help student athletes create customized periodic payment plans through their NIL agreements.

iStructure Select® - More Index Choices

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S&P 500®

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Nasdaq-100 Volatility Control™

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Franklin BofA World Index™

Product Highlights

Multiple Index Choices

Uncapped Growth Of Payments

Multiple Index Choices

You have the ability to allocate a mix between three prominent indexes: the Franklin BofA World Index™, the Nasdaq-100 Volatility Control 12%™, and The S&P 500® with a 10% cap. Choices are locked in for the life of annuity contract.

Principal Protection

Uncapped Growth Of Payments

Multiple Index Choices

The initial premium amount is guaranteed to be paid out over the life of the annuity contract regardless of index performance. Guarantee is from "A" rated Independent Life Insurance Company, who is also reinsured by "A+" rated Hannover Re US.

Uncapped Growth Of Payments

Uncapped Growth Of Payments

Uncapped Growth Of Payments

The future payments rise according to the combination of index performance and the annuity contract's participation rate. Three allocation strategies are available to set the floor for each payment: high growth, balanced growth and enhanced growth.

Tax-Advantaged Payments

Tax-Advantaged Payments

Uncapped Growth Of Payments

Income tax-free payments for personal physical injury, workers' compensation, and wrongful incarceration. Tax-deferred payments for attorney fees, non-physical injury settlements and structured installment sales.

Flexible Payment Design

Tax-Advantaged Payments

Flexible Payment Design

Payments can start immediately or be deferred up to 50 years; be made for a certain time period or for the annuitant's life. Lump sums can be used for milestone ages or reinvestment opportunities.  

Higher Expected Payouts

Tax-Advantaged Payments

Flexible Payment Design

Based upon historical performance, the combination of index performance and participation rate is expected to provide significantly higher payouts over the long-term vs. a fixed interest rate.

How Does iStructure Select® Work?

Select A Payment Schedule

Decide how you want your future payments:


  • Start Date and End Date
  • Lifetime payments?
  • Lump sums?
  • Monthly, Quarterly, Etc.?

Select Your Index & Floor Strategies

We recommend an even allocation mix across all three indices available with iStructure Select®.


For durations 15 years or less, we recommend "High Growth", which will create equal starting amounts for each payment in your schedule.  With this approach, you will never receive less in one year than you did a previous year.


For durations over 15 years, we recommend "Enhanced Growth" for those that do not want to potentially experience a decreasing payment amount. This feature comes with decreased participation in index performance which lowers the overall expected return. 


For those seeking the highest index participation, we recommend "Balanced Growth" which has decreasing starting amounts for each year of payments in your schedule.  This effect helps to spread out the index gains over time vs. being built up too heavily in the later years of the annuity contract.  With this approach, you will experience downward fluctuations at times, but these are not losses to you.

Annual Index Review

When there is an index gain for the policy year, that gain is multiplied times the participation rate to determine the index credit rate (subject to any applicable caps). Any index loss is zeroed out and treated as no gain. 


All current and future payments are increased by any index credit rate at the end of a policy year. Once index credits are applied, they are locked-in and guaranteed not to decrease.

Sample Illustration

Lifetime monthly w/50 years guaranteed - Male, Age 34

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Disclaimers

The S&P 500® is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC or its affiliates (“SPDJI”), and has been licensed for use by Independent Life Insurance Company (“ILIC”). S&P®, S&P 500®, SPX®, SPY®, US 500™, The 500™, iBoxx®, iTraxx® and CDX® are trademarks of S&P Global, Inc. or its affiliates (“S&P”); Dow Jones® is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC (“Dow Jones”). It is not possible to invest directly in an index.  iStructure Select is not sponsored or sold by SPDJI, Dow Jones, S&P, any of their respective affiliates (collectively, “S&P Dow Jones Indices”). S&P Dow Jones Indices do not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the iStructure Select or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in iStructure Select particularly or the ability of the S&P 500® to track general market performance. Past performance of an index is not an indication or guarantee of future results. S&P Dow Jones Indices’ only relationship to ILIC with respect to the S&P 500® is the licensing of the Index and certain trademarks, service marks and/or trade names of S&P Dow Jones Indices and/or its licensors. The S&P 500® is determined, composed and calculated by S&P Dow Jones Indices without regard to ILIC or iStructure Select. S&P Dow Jones Indices have no obligation to take the needs of ILIC or the owners of iStructure Select into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the S&P 500®. S&P Dow Jones Indices have no obligation or liability in connection with the administration, marketing or trading of iStructure Select. There is no assurance that investment products based on the S&P 500® will accurately track index performance or provide positive investment returns.  S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC is not an investment adviser, commodity trading advisory, commodity pool operator, broker dealer, fiduciary, promoter” (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended), “expert” as enumerated within 15 U.S.C. § 77k(a) or tax advisor.  Inclusion of a security, commodity, crypto currency or other asset within an index is not a recommendation by S&P Dow Jones Indices to buy, sell, or hold such security, commodity, crypto currency or other asset, nor is it considered to be investment advice or commodity trading advice. SPDJI provides indices that use environmental, social and/or governance (ESG) indicators (including, without limit, business involvement screens, conformance to voluntary corporate standards, GHG emissions data, and ESG scores) to select, weight and/or exclude constituents. ESG indicators seek to measure a company’s, or an asset’s performance, with respect to E, S and/or G criteria. ESG indicators are derived from publicly reported data, modelled data, or a combination of reported and modelled data. ESG indicators are based on a qualitative assessment due to the absence of well-defined uniform market standards and the use of multiple methodologies to assess ESG factors. No single clear, definitive test or framework (legal, regulatory, or otherwise) exists to determine labels such as, ‘ESG’, ‘sustainable’, ‘good governance’, ‘no adverse environmental, social and/or other impacts’, or other equivalently labelled objectives. Therefore, the exercise of subjective judgment is necessary. Different persons may classify the same investment, products and/or strategy differently regarding the foregoing labels.

  

NEITHER S&P DOW JONES INDICES NOR THIRD PARTY LICENSOR GUARANTEES THE ADEQUACY, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS AND/OR THE COMPLETENESS OF THE S&P 500® OR ANY DATA RELATED THERETO OR ANY COMMUNICATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ORAL OR WRITTEN COMMUNICATION (INCLUDING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS) WITH RESPECT THERETO. S&P DOW JONES INDICES SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY DAMAGES OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR DELAYS THEREIN. S&P DOW JONES INDICES MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE OR AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY ILIC, OWNERS OF THE iSTRUCTURE SELECT, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FROM THE USE OF THE S&P 500® OR WITH RESPECT TO ANY DATA RELATED THERETO. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT WHATSOEVER SHALL S&P DOW JONES INDICES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF PROFITS, TRADING LOSSES, LOST TIME OR GOODWILL, EVEN IF THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBLITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. S&P DOW JONES INDICES HAS NOT REVIEWED, PREPARED AND/OR CERTIFIED ANY PORTION OF, NOR DOES S&P DOW JONES INDICES HAVE ANY CONTROL OVER, THE LICENSEE PRODUCT REGISTRATION STATEMENT, PROSPECTUS OR OTHER OFFERING MATERIALS. THERE ARE NO THIRD-PARTY BENEFICIARIES OF ANY AGREEMENTS OR ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN S&P DOW JONES INDICES AND ILIC, OTHER THAN THE LICENSORS OF S&P DOW JONES INDICES. 


The Product is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Nasdaq, Inc. or its affiliates (Nasdaq, with its affiliates, are referred to as the “Corporations”). The Corporations have not passed on the legality or suitability of, or the accuracy or adequacy of descriptions and disclosures relating to, the Product. The Corporations make no representation or warranty, express or implied to the owners of the Product or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in the Product particularly, or the ability of the Nasdaq-100 Volatility Control 12%TM Index to track general stock market performance. The Corporations' only relationship to Independent Life Insurance Company (“Licensee”) is in the licensing of the Nasdaq®, and certain trade names of the Corporations and the use of the Nasdaq-100 Volatility Control 12% TM Index which is determined, composed and calculated by Nasdaq without regard to Licensee or the Product(s). Nasdaq has no obligation to take the needs of the Licensee or the owners of the Product(s) into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the Nasdaq-100 Volatility Control 12% TM Index. The Corporations are not responsible for and have not participated in the determination of the timing of, prices at, or quantities of the Product(s) to be issued or in the determination or calculation of the equation by which the Product(s) is to be converted into cash. The Corporations have no liability in connection with the administration, marketing or trading of the Product(s).


THE CORPORATIONS DO NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY AND/OR UNINTERRUPTED CALCULATION OF Nasdaq-100 Volatility Control 12% TM INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. THE CORPORATIONS MAKE NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY LICENSEE, OWNERS OF THE PRODUCT(S), OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FROM THE USE OF THE Nasdaq-100 Volatility Control 12% TM INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. THE CORPORATIONS MAKE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE WITH RESPECT TO THE Nasdaq-100 Volatility Control 12% TM INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CORPORATIONS HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.


The Franklin BofA World Index™ (the “Index”) has been created and is owned by BofA Securities, Inc. and its Affiliates, based on an index licensed from Franklin Templeton Companies, LLC (collectively, “Licensors”) and the Index has been licensed to Independent Life Insurance Company (“Independent Life”). Neither Independent Life nor any fixed index annuity (“Product”) is sponsored, operated, endorsed, sold or promoted by Licensors. Obligations to make payments under any Products are solely the obligation of Independent Life pursuant to the term of the contract between Independent Life and you, and are not the responsibility of Licensors. Licensors indices and related information, the names of the Licensors, and related trademarks, are intellectual property licensed from Licensors, and may not be copied, used, or distributed without Licensors’ prior written approval. The Products have not been passed on as to their legality or suitability, and are not regulated, issued, endorsed, sold, guaranteed, or promoted by Licensors. LICENSORS MAKE NO WARRANTIES AND BEAR NO LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE INDICES, ANY RELATED INFORMATION, THE TRADEMARKS, OR THE PRODUCT(S) (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THEIR QUALITY, ACCURACY, SUITABILITY AND/OR COMPLETENESS).


Not FDIC insured • Charges may apply • Not bank guaranteed • Not a deposit • Not insured by any federal agency • A fixed annuity is not a security and is not an investment in the stock market. Payout growth is based, in part, on index performance. Past performance of an index is not an indication of future performance. Consult your agent for more information about this and other index options.


IStructure Annuity (Form IND-VM 2.1) is underwritten and issued through Independent Life Insurance Company headquartered in Dallas, TX. Guarantees are backed by the financial strength and claims paying ability of the company. Product availability and features may vary, and some features may not be available in all states. 

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Bua Settlements LLC does not provide tax or legal advice.  Information contained herein is not tax advice nor is it intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of avoiding any tax penalties.  You should seek advice based on your circumstances from an independent tax advisor if you have tax-related questions.


Guarantees are subject to the claims-paying abilities of the issuing insurance company.  Company ratings referenced on this website are issued by Nationally Recognized Statistical Ratings Organizations (NRSRO) registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) and approved by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).  Ratings are opinions and not guarantees of performance.


Bua Settlements LLC does not sell securities and is not licensed to do so.  


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