SEC Company Response from AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP SEPARATE ACCOUNT LLVL (CIK 0000933094) — Apr 20, 2020
AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP SEPARATE ACCOUNT LLVL (CIK 0000933094)
Date: April 20, 2020 · CIK: 0000933094 · Accession: 0000933094-20-000020
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File numbers found in text: 333-233977, 811-08868
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Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.
5900 O Street / Lincoln, NE 68510
April 20, 2020
via EDGAR
Sonny Oh, Senior Counsel
Division of Investment Management
Disclosure Review and Accounting Office
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re:
Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.
Ameritas
Life Insurance Corp. Separate Account LLVL, 1940 Act Registration No. 811-08868
Ameritas
Advisor II VUL, 1933 Act Registration No. 333-233977
Dear Mr. Oh:
On February 26, 2020, we submitted Post-Effective Amendment No.
1 on behalf of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. ("Depositor" and "Ameritas Life") and Ameritas Life Insurance
Corp. Separate Account LLVL ("Registrant" and "Separate Account"). The proposed effective date for this filing
is May 1, 2020.
This letter, and the revisions summarized herein, is in response
to the staff’s verbal comments of April 13, 2020. Revisions related to staff comments are as follows (we list a summary of
the comment first, then the response):
1. SEC COMMENT: The prospectus states that policy guarantees,
which are obligations of the general account, are subject to the claims paying ability of the company. Given the significant market
events relating to COVID-19 since the time Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 was filed, please consider whether this disclosure should
be revisited based on how this event could affect the company’s financial strength and claims-paying ability. If you believe
no revision is necessary, explain supplementally to SEC staff.
AMERITAS LIFE RESPONSE: We have added the following
disclosure on page one of the prospectus:
Ameritas and its subsidiaries continuously monitor
their various businesses, internal and external operations, the financial services industry as a whole, and the effects of various
external events on our businesses. In response to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we have taken additional steps to continuously
provide service to our policy owners. We continuously monitor the life insurance company’s investments, and are keeping abreast
of developing strategies, in order to ensure that we maintain our financial strength during this unprecedented time of general
uncertainty due to the pandemic.
2. SEC COMMENT: The Fee Table on page 7, where the cost
of optional features are listed, is not required to include the Advisory Fee Endorsement, since there is no charge for that feature.
AMERITAS LIFE RESPONSE: The Company is electing to
keep the Advisory Fee Endorsement listed in the chart, as we also list one other no-cost Rider in the chart. We will note that
no-cost features are not required to be listed, for future reference. No change was made to the prospectus in response to this
comment.
3. SEC COMMENT: With regard to the chart of fund names
and investment advisers located in the Investment Options section (page 15 in the “A” filing), the reviewer asked whether
the numbers listed after the various Vanguard portfolio names were footnotes that are missing the accompanying text.
AMERITAS LIFE RESPONSE: We explained that the numbers
correspond to the various named investment advisers to the Vanguard portfolios, which are also listed in the chart. The numbers
are not footnotes, and no text is missing. No change was made to the prospectus in response to this comment.
4. SEC COMMENT: In the Account Value section, the Separate
Account Value and Fixed Account Value subsections (Page 22 of the “A” filing), it was suggested that we include the
words “if applicable” with regard to any Advisory Fees taken, since not all Policyowners will elect the Advisory Fee
Endorsement. It was also suggested that we add a definition of “Advisory Fees” to the Defined Terms section of the
prospectus.
AMERITAS LIFE RESPONSE: We have made these revisions.
5. SEC COMMENT: The reference to a Rule 12h-7 exemption
(Page 32 of the “A” filing) should be removed as inapplicable to Form N-6 filings.
AMERITAS LIFE RESPONSE: We have removed the reference
from the prospectus.
6. SEC COMMMENT: Confirm in the letter accompanying the
“B” filing that the Statement of Additional Information and Part C have been updated, and reflect all values required
to be updated as of 12/31/19.
AMERITAS LIFE RESPONSE: Ameritas Life confirms that
the Statement of Additional Information and Part C of the filing, when filed later this week, will have been updated to include
all required updates effective as of 12/31/19.
7. SEC COMMENT: For future filings, note that it is not
correct to state that Exhibit (n) (Auditors’ Consent) in “not applicable.”
AMERITAS LIFE RESPONSE: So noted. Future “A”
filings will list that Exhibit as “to be filed.”
We acknowledge: that the Separate Account is responsible for the
adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filings; staff comments or changes to disclosure
in response to staff comments in the filings reviewed by the staff do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action
with respect to the filing; and the Separate Account may not assert staff comments as a defense
in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.
If you have any questions
or comments concerning this filing, please telephone me at 402-467-7847. Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/s/ Ann D. Diers
Ann D. Diers
Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Variable Contracts & AIC