[摘要]购买寿险保单是投保人的一项投资行为,由于寿险保单的标的是被保险人的生命,因此通过购买寿险进行投资的做法是受到严格限制的,这种限制是通过寿险合同对可保利益的要求体现出来的。但寿险合同的可转让性衍生出可保利益在寿险保单中的另一个特点,即在被保险人死亡时,领取死亡保险金的人不需要对被保险人具有可保利益关系。寿险保单是给付性的定值保单,除投资型寿险,被保险人死亡时受益人领取的死亡保险金就是寿险保单的保险金额,因此,保险金额的确定是寿险保单的一项重要内容,投保人对被保险人具有的可保利益是确定寿险保额的根本依据。 [关键词]可保利益;保险金额;需求法;人生价值法 [中图分类号] F840.62 [文献标识码] A [文章编号]1004-3306(2005)12-0043-03 Abstract: It is an investment activity on the part of the applicant to purchase a life insurance policy.Because the subject matter of a life insurance policy is the life of the insured,this investment activity is strictly limited.Such a limit is embodied in the requirement of an insurable benefit by the life insurance contract.However,the transferability of life insurance contract leads to another feature of life insurance policy,namely,the recipient of death benefit when the insured dies does not necessarily have insurable benefit to the insured.Life insurance policy usually has a fixed benefit and except for investment type of life insurance policy,the death benefit that the beneficiary receives is the sum assured of the policy,therefore,determination of sum assured is very important and the fundamental basis for deciding on sum assured is that the applicant should have insurable benefit to the insured. Key words:insurable benefit;sum assured;method of demands;methods of life value