When MassMutual rolled out Apex VUL in 2021, the name was unintentionally ironic. If you’re going to roll out a product and call it “apex,” it better be good. Apex isn’t an aspirational term. It’s a descriptor. A product called Apex had better be – quite literally – at the…
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