August 7, 2026
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Can You Sell a Corebridge Term Life Policy? (2026)

Often yes – this is one of the few carrier and product combinations where the honest answer is not simply no. Corebridge’s Select-a-Term series is written in an unusually wide range of level period durations, is sold in face amounts that routinely clear the secondary market’s size threshold, and carries a conversion privilege that lets the policy be exchanged for permanent coverage without a new medical exam. Those three facts together are exactly what an institutional buyer is looking for in a term file.

What decides your individual case is the conversion deadline. A buyer purchases a death benefit it expects to collect and funds premiums until it does, so term that cannot be converted into permanent coverage has essentially no market value – the contract would expire before the insured is projected to die, and term policies carry no cash surrender value as a fallback. The conversion right is what makes the asset real, and it usually ends earlier than policyholders expect, often at an attained age rather than at the end of the level period. Everything below works outward from that date.

In This Article

Find your conversion deadline, in writing
The destination matters as much as the deadline
What a buyer computes, and why size is rarely the obstacle here
Who actually issued the policy, and who regulates them
The two-year rules, ownership, and the calendar
Ranking the options honestly
Frequently Asked Questions

Can You Sell a Corebridge Term Life Policy? (2026)

Find your conversion deadline, in writing

Open the policy to the provision headed Conversion, Convertibility, or Right to Convert. The expiry is typically expressed as the earlier of two triggers: a stated number of policy years, and the insured reaching a stated attained age. The attained-age trigger usually arrives first. On a 30-year Select-a-Term policy issued at 48 with conversion ending at attained age 70, the right closes in policy year 22 while eight years of level coverage remain.

Do not calculate it from the summary page. Write to the issuing company, reference the policy number, and request four specific items: the last date on which conversion may be exercised; the permanent plans currently available for conversion, with premium quotes at your attained age and original underwriting class; whether partial conversion is permitted and any minimum face amount for the new contract; and written confirmation that no evidence of insurability is required.

That last item is the one that carries the value. A conversion right requiring new underwriting is close to worthless to an impaired insured, because the carrier would simply decline. The version that requires none lets a permanent policy be issued on the health class you were assigned years ago. How conversion rights are written covers the standard structures.

The destination matters as much as the deadline

Corebridge maintains a permanent portfolio, and the plan you convert into determines whether the resulting policy is stable for the rest of the insured’s life or fragile.

A guarantee-oriented universal life design, such as the AG Secure Lifetime guaranteed universal life family, is built to hold the death benefit in force to a stated age provided a specified premium is paid on schedule. Cash value is incidental. The appeal is certainty. The risk is that the guarantee is tracked through a separate shadow-account calculation, and a late or reduced payment can impair it – sometimes permanently. See guaranteed universal life.

An accumulation-oriented indexed universal life design, such as the Max Accumulator+ family – available to applicants roughly 18 to 80 with a minimum death benefit of $50,000, offering several index accounts alongside a declared interest account carrying a stated minimum rate – is built for cash value growth. Its risk is that credited interest falls short of assumption while the cost of insurance charge climbs with attained age. See the indexed universal life guidance.

For someone converting in their late sixties or seventies whose objective is simply that the benefit be paid, the guarantee-oriented design is usually correct. Ask for the premium solved to age 100 on a guaranteed basis for each candidate plan and compare those numbers rather than the current-basis projections.

What a buyer computes, and why size is rarely the obstacle here

A provider projects the insured’s remaining life expectancy from medical records, discounts the death benefit back from that projected date at a required rate of return, and subtracts every premium it must fund in the meantime. On converted term, that premium stream is the converted permanent premium – so the destination you choose changes the offer directly.

Mortality is the dominant variable. The difference between a six-year and a fourteen-year projected life expectancy moves price more than anything else in a file, which is why offers concentrate on insureds around 70 and older, or younger with material impairment, and why healthy insureds with long projections frequently receive nothing at all.

Size is a gate rather than a lever, and it is a gate Select-a-Term policies usually clear. The market in 2026 effectively begins around $100,000 of net death benefit and produces genuine competition above roughly $250,000; individually underwritten term of this kind is commonly written well above that. What can pull a policy back below the line is a collateral assignment – coverage pledged to a lender for a business loan is priced net of that claim. The factors that move an offer lists the full set.

Checkpoint	Passes when	Fails when
Convertibility	Right is open and needs no evidence of insurability	Window closed, or new underwriting required
Size	Net death benefit above $100,000, ideally $250,000+	Small face amount, or a large collateral assignment
Insured profile	Around 70+, or younger with material impairment	Healthy insured with a long projected life expectancy
Contestability	More than two years since issue or reinstatement	Inside the two-year window either way
Runway	More than about six months to the conversion deadline	Under ninety days – convert instead
Authority to sell	Owner can sign; trustee or entity authorized	Irrevocable beneficiary or trust terms block it

What a buyer computes, and why size is rarely the obstacle here

Who actually issued the policy, and who regulates them

Corebridge Financial is the parent brand. Your contract was issued by one of its operating insurers, and that is the name to use in every request.

American General Life Insurance Company issues in most states. It is domiciled in Texas with its principal office in Houston, so the Texas Department of Insurance is its domiciliary regulator. Texas regulates life settlements under a dedicated chapter of the Texas Insurance Code addressing provider and broker licensing, disclosure, and a rescission period after funding.

The United States Life Insurance Company in the City of New York issues to New York residents and is regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services, which applies notably stricter standards to both policy forms and settlement transactions.

The corporate history explains why old paperwork carries other names. American General Life traces to American General Corporation, the Houston insurance group AIG acquired in 2001. The business operated within AIG for two decades before Corebridge Financial listed on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2022 under the ticker CRBG, with AIG reducing its stake thereafter. A policy bought in 2010 may say AIG, one from 2016 may say American General, and one from 2024 may reference Corebridge – all potentially the same issuing company, and all still obligated.

The two-year rules, ownership, and the calendar

Contestability. The insurer generally has two years from the policy date to rescind for material misrepresentation on the application. Providers will not purchase a contestable policy, because a rescission would erase the entire investment and the outcome is outside their control.

Reinstatement restarts the clock. If the policy lapsed and was reinstated, a fresh two-year period typically runs from the reinstatement application. A contract issued in 2012 and reinstated in 2025 is contestable in 2026. Ask for the reinstatement date specifically, not just the issue date.

Ownership. An irrevocable beneficiary must consent before ownership changes hands – a designation made in a divorce settlement is the usual source. A trust-owned policy requires the trustee to sign, and the trust instrument must permit disposing of the asset. Business-owned coverage requires corporate authority and often a board or member resolution.

The calendar. A settlement transaction typically runs three to five months end to end: document collection, medical record retrieval from every treating provider, two independent life expectancy reports, provider review and bidding, closing documentation, carrier processing of the ownership change, and the statutory rescission period after funding. The ownership change must be recorded while the conversion right is still alive. If your deadline sits inside about ninety days, converting yourself is realistic and completing a sale generally is not. The stage-by-stage timeline shows where the weeks go.

Ranking the options honestly

Convert and keep it. If someone still depends on the death benefit and the guaranteed-basis premium on a suitable permanent plan is affordable, converting keeps the full value in your family rather than transferring most of it to a buyer. Partial conversion at an amount you can actually fund is frequently the right compromise between coverage and cost.

Explore a sale. Genuinely worth doing when the conversion right is open with real runway, the net death benefit is comfortably above $100,000 and preferably past $250,000, the insured is around 70 or older or younger with material health impairment, and the alternative is letting the coverage expire for nothing. This is the profile Select-a-Term files most often present, and it is why these policies show up in the secondary market. Compare the two paths directly in converting versus selling.

Let it expire. If no one needs the coverage and the conversion window has closed, letting the policy run out is a rational outcome rather than a failure. Unconvertible term has no hidden value, and anyone charging a fee to shop it is not describing this market accurately.

Before you commit either way, read the term overview and the general eligibility rules, and if you also hold an older Corebridge term contract under a different product name, the broader Corebridge term page covers those blocks.

Pine Lake Life Solutions provides education and a free policy review. We do not purchase policies and are not licensed in every state. Send the policy cover page and the conversion provision, or call (305) 209-7183, and we will give you the actual deadline and a straight assessment of whether a buyer would engage.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are Select-a-Term policies actually bought in the secondary market?

Individually underwritten term of this kind is among the more commonly traded term coverage, because face amounts routinely clear the market’s size threshold and the conversion privilege lets a buyer exchange the contract for permanent coverage without new medical evidence. Whether your specific policy qualifies still depends on the conversion deadline and the insured’s health.

When does my conversion right end?

At the earlier of a stated number of policy years or the insured reaching a stated attained age, and the attained-age trigger usually comes first. Request the exact date in writing from the issuing company along with the available conversion plans, premium quotes at your attained age, and confirmation that no evidence of insurability is required.

Which permanent plan should I convert into?

It depends on the objective. A guarantee-oriented universal life design holds the death benefit to a stated age provided the specified premium is paid on schedule. An accumulation-oriented indexed design pursues cash value growth and can fall behind as insurance charges rise. Request the guaranteed-basis premium solved to age one hundred for each candidate.

Why does my policy say American General or AIG?

Corebridge Financial is the parent brand, while the contracts are issued by American General Life Insurance Company in most states and The United States Life Insurance Company in the City of New York for New York residents. American General was acquired by AIG in 2001, and Corebridge listed separately in September 2022.

How long does the process take?

Three to five months is typical, covering document collection, medical record retrieval, two independent life expectancy reports, provider review and bidding, closing documentation, carrier processing of the ownership change, and the statutory rescission period after funding. The ownership change must be recorded while the conversion right remains open, so start well before the deadline.

What can disqualify an otherwise good policy?

A closed conversion window, a policy date or reinstatement date inside the two-year contestability period, an irrevocable beneficiary who will not consent, trust terms that do not authorize a sale, or a collateral assignment that reduces the net death benefit below the market’s practical minimum. Check all of these before spending time on valuation.

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