I don't have experience with life cases of that risk. Mainly write FE. He's also over weight.
Assuming he qualify, what would a single premium give him?
He would have to surrender the policy and pay tax first. You can't 1035 annuities to life insurance.
You could annuitize (or move it to a SPIA) and annual fund a life policy. That might mitigate the tax liability. Do you know what his basis is?
You need more information about his condition (severity), build (seniors get some flexibility on build with some carriers) and the tax consequences of moving this annuity before looking at life insurance. Without this info, you can't do an analysis of an annuity with a death benefit vs. his alternatives.
If you're not comfortable doing this, you might want to bring another local agent into the mix to assist.
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and with a new multiyear contract ? I like this career....
We don't know his financial position...maybe he's worth 2 million and spends 50k/yr and this is true "legacy money"
That being said, if this were my client and we ended up doing an annuity with a roll-up DB, I'd certainly give ROP as an option, to your point.