Equitable America Variable Account K of Equitable Financial Life Insurance Co of America CORRESP Correspondence with SEC

1290 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10104

Julie Collett

Senior Director and Counsel

Julie.collett@equitable.com

(303) 902-9135

July 27, 2021

VIA EDGAR

Elisabeth Bentzinger, Esq.

United States Securities and Exchange

Commission Office of Insurance Products

Division of Investment Management

Mail Stop 8629

Washington, DC 20549-8629

Re: Separate Account FP

Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company

Initial Registration Statement on Form N-6

File Nos. 333-256251; 811-04335

Equitable America Variable Account K

Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America

Initial Registration Statement on Form N-6

File No. 333-256256; 811-22886

Dear Ms. Bentzinger:

The purpose of this letter is to provide a response to the supplemental comments you provided with respect to the above-referenced filing for Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company and Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America (the “Companies”). For your convenience, I have included those comments below, and followed each comment with the Company’s response. Please see the revised Statutory Prospectuses and Initial Summary Prospectuses filed herewith.

Request for Acceleration of the Effectiveness of the Registration Statement

On behalf of the Registrant and the principal underwriters, Equitable Distributors, LLC and Equitable Advisors, LLC, we hereby request acceleration of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, pursuant to Rule 461 under the 1933 Act, so that the Registration Statement will be declared effective on August 20, 2021, or as soon thereafter as practicable. In this connection, the Registrant and the principal underwriters, Equitable Distributors, LLC and Equitable Advisors, LLC, have authorized me to represent on their behalf that they are aware of their obligations under the 1933 Act.

General

1. Please confirm that all missing information, including all exhibits, will be filed in a pre-effective amendment to each registration statement. We may have further comments when you supply the omitted information.

Response: All missing information, including all exhibits, will be filed in a pre-effective amendment to each registration statement.

2. Please include an active hyperlink or other means of facilitating access that leads directly to each website address referenced in the registration statement, as well as all other information incorporated by reference, such as Form VPFS. See General Instruction C.3(i) to Form N-6; Rule 411 under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “1933 Act”); Rule 0-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Response: All active hyperlinks will be included when we file for effectiveness.

3. Please provide powers of attorney that relate specifically to each registration statement as required by Rule 483(b) of the 1933 Act.

Response: Updated powers of attorney will be included when we file for effectiveness.

Cover Page

4. In the third sentence of the fourth paragraph, please clarify that in most states, the Company will refund the policy account value, plus any charges that were deducted, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Definition of Key Terms (pages 5-6)

5. Please remove the statement in the Alternative Death Benefit definition regarding there being a choice of a life insurance qualification test, as the Policy only offers one test. Further, please consistently refer to this death benefit as either the “alternative” death benefit or the “alternate” death benefit; both terms are currently used throughout the prospectus.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Important Information You Should Consider About the Policy (pages 7-9)

6. When describing Insurance Company Risks, please note that any policy obligations, including under the fixed rate option and under the MSO, are subject to the Company’s claims-paying ability.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

7. In the Policy Lapse section of the Risks table, please reconcile the statement that an owner may need to pay more premiums to keep the policy from terminating if the policy continuation feature is in effect with page 44 of the prospectus, which states that no further premiums are required if policy continuation takes effect.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Overview of the Policy (pages 10-11)

8. To avoid investor confusion, please group the four riders under the Policy into one list, and make clear that (a) both the Policy Continuation Rider and the Living Benefits Rider have a charge associated with exercising the rider; (b) the Policy Continuation Rider is automatically issued to all policies; (c) the Living Benefits Rider is only added at issue to Policies with a face amount of at least $100,000, and there is a $100 charge for those who decline the rider but later elect it after issue; (d) the No-Lapse Guarantee Rider is automatically added to all policies (or clarify the “eligible policies” to which it is automatically added); and (e) the Policy Continuation Rider protects against policy termination if the net policy account value is insufficient to cover the monthly deductions (regardless of whether there is an outstanding loan).

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested, except that as one of the requirements for the Policy Continuation Rider at the time of exercise is for there to be an outstanding loan where policy loan and accrued loan interest exceeds the current base policy face amount.

Fee Table (pages 12-14)

9. To avoid investor confusion, please remove the label “Current and Maximum Charge” from the wire transfer charge, express mail charge, duplicate policy charge, and charge for returned payments in the Transaction Fees table. With regard to the policy history charge, please remove the label “Current” as $50 is the maximum charge, but not the current charge.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

10. In the fourth footnote to the Transaction Fees table, please include a cross-reference to the MSO prospectus.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

11. Please format the footnote in the Transaction Fees table describing the declining surrender charge to be consistent with the other footnotes (i.e., indent the table; replace “**” with a number).

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

12. In the narrative preceding the Periodic Charges table, please remove the phrase “guaranteed maximum” consistent with the prescribed wording of Item 4 of Form N-6.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

13. Please clarify that the charge for adding the Living Benefits Rider is deducted “Once – on the date the rider is exercised” rather than “At the time of the transaction,” consistent with the description of the Policy Continuation Rider charge.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Payment of Premiums and Determining Your Policy’s Value (pages 22-26)

14. Page 23 of the prospectus states that the policy will not lapse if the policy “has an outstanding loan that would qualify for ‘policy continuation.’” Please revise this disclosure to clarify that the policy will not lapse if the conditions of the Policy Continuation Rider are satisfied, including that there is sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge, and provide a corresponding cross-reference.

Response: The disclosure has been revised to clarify that the policy will not lapse if conditions of the Policy Continuation Rider are satisfied, including that there is sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge, with a correspondence cross-reference.

Death Benefits and Accessing Your Money (pages 29-33)

15. When providing an example on page 29 of the alternative death benefit under the cash value accumulation test, please reconcile the 144.0% death benefit percentage in the Separate Account FP prospectus with the 140.0% death benefit percentage in the Equitable America Variable Account K prospectus.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

16. (Equitable America Variable Account K prospectus only). Please remove the reference to the Long-Term Care Services Rider on page 30, which does not appear to be offered under the Policy.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

17. (Separate Account FP prospectus only). When describing on page 31 the effects of a policy loan, please state that a loan, repaid or not, has a permanent effect on the cash surrender value and death benefit. Item 13(d) of Form N-6.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Tax Information (pages 34-39)

18. Please confirm that, to the extent relevant, the tax discussion here and throughout the prospectus reflects any currently effective provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the COVID-Related Tax Relief Act of 2020, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

Response: The tax discussion throughout the prospectus reflects any currently effective provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the COVID-Related Tax Relief Act of 2020, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 applicable to the policy.

Other Benefits Available Under the Policy (pages 40-45)

19. In the benefits table, please reconcile the statement in the fourth column of the Policy Continuation Rider description, which states that the policy is automatically placed on policy continuation, with the disclosure on page 44 of the prospectus, which states that the owner must elect to exercise the rider.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

20. When describing the Policy Continuation Rider beginning on page 44, please remove the cross-reference to the cash value accumulation test when describing the Policy Continuation charge, as this test is not relevant to the calculation of the charge. Please also remove this cross-reference from the Policy Continuation Rider charge discussion on page 50 of the prospectus.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

21. (Equitable America Variable Account K prospectus only). On page 42, please remove the reference to the Substitution of Insured Person Rider and the discussion on the Long- Term Care Services Rider, which do not appear to be offered under the Policy. Please also remove the Substitution of Insured Person Rider discussion and the Long-Term Care Services Rider reference on page 53.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

More Information About Policy Charges (pages 46-51)

22. When describing the premium charge, please remove the reference to the “death benefit option,” as there is only one death benefit offered under the Policy. Similarly, please remove the “death benefit option” reference in the first paragraph on page 65 describing personalized illustrations.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

23. Please revise the fourth paragraph of the surrender charge discussion as follows: (a) move the first two sentences on how the surrender charge will be deducted to the following discussion on requesting a decrease in face amount; (b) more clearly explain in the third sentence that the maximum surrender charge contained in the policy is shown for the first policy month of each policy year; (c) revise the fourth sentence as follows: “[t]hecurrent_ maximum surrender charge is 6% of each premium, not to exceed an amount per $1,000 of initial base policy face amount, which will be between $20.63 and $55.87 per $1,000 of initial base policy face amount;” and (d) in the last sentence, please replace “cash value” with “net cash surrender value.”

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

24. In the first and second paragraphs describing the mortality and expense risk charge, please clarify that the Company “will” (rather than “may”) collect and deduct this charge.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

25. In the Optional Rider Charges discussion, please disclose that there is no additional charge for the No-Lapse Guarantee Rider.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Appendix: Calculating the Alternate Death Benefit

26. Please reconcile the Appendix heading – Calculating the Alternate Death Benefit – with the first sentence of the first paragraph, stating that the examples therein demonstrate how the standard death benefit is calculated.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

27. In the first paragraph, please remove the statement that the examples assume the owner selected the cash value accumulation test, as the Policy does not offer a choice.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

28. Please revise the fourth row in the table to clarify that the Standard Death Benefit for Policy 2 is $100,000, and add two rows to the table to depict the Alternate Death Benefit ($50,400 for Policy 1 and $122,400 for Policy 2) and the Death Benefit Paid ($100,000 for Policy 1 and $122,400 for Policy 2).

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Appendix: Examples of How the Policy Continuation Rider Works

29. (Equitable America Variable Account K prospectus only). As disclosed in this appendix to the Separate Account FP prospectus, please explain that after the policy goes on policy continuation, future premium payments, partial withdrawals and requested policy changes are not allowed, the policy does not lapse and continues in force during the illustrated year and in all subsequent years, and loan interest continues to be due on each policy anniversary, and if not paid when due, is added to the outstanding loan.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Requesting More Information

30. Please replace the last three sentences of the back cover page with the statement required by Item 1(b)(3) of Form N-6 (i.e., “Copies of this information may be obtained, upon payment of a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following email address: publicinfo@sec.gov.”).

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

31. Please include the EDGAR contract identifier for the Policy on the bottom of the back cover page in type size smaller than that generally used in the prospectus (e.g., 8-point modern type). Item 1(b)(4) of Form N-6.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

INITIAL SUMMARY PROSPECTUS

General

32. Please apply all comments herein to the summary prospectus, as applicable.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Cover Page

33. Please revise the first sentence of the first paragraph to clarify that the Policy is a variable and index-linked life insurance policy.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

34. In the fourth paragraph, please make clear that an investor could experience a significant loss of principal and previously credited interest in connection with the MSO. Please also provide a cross-reference to the MSO prospectus, and inform investors as to how to obtain the MSO prospectus.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Important Information You Should Consider About the Policy (pages 3-5)

35. Certain cross-references in this section refer to other sections of the summary prospectus. Please provide cross-references to the location in the statutory prospectus where the subject matter is discussed in greater detail. Further, all cross-references should link directly to the relevant sections of the statutory prospectus, or should provide a means of facilitating access to that information through equivalent methods or technologies. Instruction 1(b) to Item 2 of Form N-6.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

36. When listing other Policy fees and expenses in the Ongoing Fees and Expenses discussion, please include mortality risks and MSO and loan charges, consistent with the corresponding disclosure in the statutory prospectus. Please also list risk class in the examples of insured characteristics.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

37. Please state that in connection with Risks Associated with Investment Options, an investment in the policy can vary depending on the performance of the Portfolios and the MSO and guaranteed investment option (GIO). Please provide cross-references to the MSO prospectus and to the “Guaranteed Interest Option” section of the statutory prospectus.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

38. Please provide a cross-reference to the “About our general account” section of the statutory prospectus when discussing Insurance Company Risks.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

39. Please reconcile the Restrictions - Investments discussion with the corresponding section of the statutory prospectus, as the two differ.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

40. Please remove the second paragraph of Restrictions – Optional Benefits, which is redundant with the third paragraph.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Overview of the Policy (pages 6-7)

41. The third paragraph states that some policy forms, features, and/or Portfolios described in the summary prospectus may not be available through all brokers. Please confirm supplementally that all broker-specific variations are described in the appendix to the statutory prospectus titled “State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits.”

Response: All broker-specific variations are described in the appendix to the statutory prospectus titled “State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits.”

42. When describing the MSO in the fourth paragraph of the Premiums discussion, please state that there could be a significant loss of principal and previously credited interest.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Other Benefits Available Under The Policy (pages 10-11)

43. Please revise the third column to state that the Living Benefits Rider is optional.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Buying The Policy (page 12)

44. Please describe under what circumstances premiums may be required in order to avoid lapse and how the amount of the additional premiums will be determined. Please also briefly explain the operation of the grace period, including the effect of the insured’s death during the grace period. Rule 498A(b)(5)(v); Items 9(a)(3) and 9(c) of Form N-6.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

How Your Policy Can Lapse (page 13)

45. In the first paragraph, please include policy charges in the list of items that could cause the policy to lapse.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

Making Withdrawals: Accessing the Money in Your Policy (page 14)

46. Please state when surrender and withdrawal proceeds are calculated and payable. Rule 498A(b)(5)(vii); Item 12(a) to Form N-6.

Response: The disclosure has been revised as requested.

I trust that the responses provided in this letter address your comments adequately. If you have any questions regarding these responses, please contact the undersigned at (303) 902-9135. Thank you very much for your assistance with this filing.

Best regards,

/s/ Julie Collett

Julie Collett

Equitable Advantage^SM

Prospectus dated August 20, 2021

An individual flexible premium variable and index-linked life insurance policy issued by Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company (the “Company”, “we”, “our” and “us”), formerly AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company with variable investment options offered under the Company’s Separate Account FP. Variable and index-linked life insurance policies are complex investment vehicles and you should speak with a financial professional about policy features, benefits, risks and fees and whether the policy is appropriate for you based on your financial situation and objectives.

Additional information about certain investment products, including variable life insurance, has been prepared by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s staff and is available at Investor.gov.

Please read this prospectus and keep it for future reference. It contains important information that you should know before purchasing, or taking any other action under a policy. Also, you should read the prospectuses for each Trust, which contain important information about the Portfolios.

If you are a new investor in the policy, you may cancel your policy within 10 days of receiving it without paying fees or penalties. In some states, this cancellation period may be longer. In most states, we will refund the policy account value, plus any charges that were deducted, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. In other states, we will refund the premiums that were paid, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. You should review this Prospectus, or consult with your investment professional, for additional information about the specific cancellation terms that apply.

This prospectus describes the policy, but is not itself a policy. This prospectus is a disclosure document and describes all of the policy’s material features, benefits, rights and obligations, as well as other information. The description of the policy’s material provisions in this prospectus is current as of the date of this prospectus. If certain material provisions under the policy are changed after the date of this prospectus in accordance with the policy, those changes will be described in a supplement to this prospectus. You should carefully read this prospectus in conjunction with any applicable supplements. Certain optional features and benefits described in the prospectus may not be available at the time you purchase the policy. We reserve the right to restrict availability of any optional feature or benefit. In addition, not all optional features and benefits may be available in combination with other optional features and benefits. To make this prospectus easier to read, we sometimes use different words than the policy. The Company or your financial professional can provide any further explanation about your policy.

For information about income, estate and gift taxes in connection with life insurance policies as well as possible estate

and gift tax consequences, please see the Tax information section in this prospectus, including the information under “Estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes”.

What is the Policy ?

The policy provides life insurance coverage, plus the opportunity for you to earn a return in (i) our guaranteed interest option, (ii) an investment option we refer to as the Market Stabilizer Option^®, if available, which is described in the separate Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus and/or (iii) one or more variable investment options set forth in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this prospectus.

The MSO gives you the opportunity to earn interest that we will credit based in part on the performance of the S&P 500 Price Return Index, excluding dividends, over approximately a one year period, although you could also experience a negative return and a significant loss of principal and previously credited interest.

One of the investment options that may be available to you under your policy is the Market Stabilizer Option^® (“MSO”). If you are interested in allocating amounts to the MSO, please refer to the separate MSO prospectus, which contains additional information relating to the MSO. If you did not receive an MSO prospectus and wish to obtain one, please call us at 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.).

Amounts that you allocate under your policy to any of the variable investment options are invested in a corresponding “Portfolio” that is part of one of the trusts (the “Trusts”), which are mutual funds. Please see Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this prospectus for more detailed information about the Portfolios and the Trusts. Your investment results in a variable investment option will depend on those of the related Portfolio. Any gains will generally be tax deferred and the life insurance benefits we pay if the policy’s insured person dies will generally be income tax free. If you are the policy’s owner and the insured person, the death benefit will generally be includible in your estate for purposes of federal estate tax.

Other choices you have.  You have considerable flexibility to tailor the policy to meet your needs. For example, subject to our rules, you can (1) choose when and how much you contribute (as “premiums”) to your policy, (2) pay certain premium amounts to guarantee that your insurance coverage will continue for at least a certain number of policy years, regardless of investment performance, (3) borrow or withdraw amounts you have accumulated, (4) decrease the amount of insurance

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coverage, (5) elect to receive an insurance benefit if the insured person becomes terminally ill, and (6) obtain certain optional benefits that we offer by “riders” to your policy.

Other policies.  We offer a variety of fixed and variable life insurance policies which offer policy features, including investment options, that are different from those offered by this prospectus. Not every policy or feature is offered through your financial professional. Replacing existing insurance with this policy or another policy may not be to your advantage. You can contact us to find out more about any other insurance policy.

Electronic delivery of shareholder reports (pursuant to Rule 30e-3).  Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the SEC, paper copies of the shareholder reports for portfolio companies available under your policy will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports from the Company or from your financial intermediary. Instead, the reports will be made available on a website, and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the report.

If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may elect to receive shareholder reports and other communications electronically from the Company by calling 1-800-777-6510 or by calling your financial intermediary.

You may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. You can inform the Company or your financial intermediary that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports by calling 1-877-522-5035, by sending an email request to EquitableFunds@dfinsolutions.com, or by calling your financial intermediary. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all portfolio companies available under your policy.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has not approved or disapproved these securities or determined if this prospectus is accurate or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. The policies are not insured by the FDIC or any other agency. They are not deposits or other obligations of any bank and are not bank guaranteed. They are subject to investment risks and possible loss of principal.

Contents of this Prospectus

Definitions of Key Terms	5
Important information you should consider about the policy	7
Overview of the policy	10
Fee Table	12
1. Principal Risks of Investing in the policy	16
Risks of investing in a policy	16
How the variable life insurance policy is available	16
2. The Company	17
How to reach us	18
About our Separate Account FP	18
Your voting privileges	19
About the Trusts	19
3. About the Portfolios of the Trusts	20
Portfolios of the Trusts	20
4. Payment of premiums and determining your policy’s value	22
How you can pay for and contribute to your policy	22
The minimum amount of premiums you must pay	23
You can guarantee that your policy will not terminate before a certain date	23
Investment options within your policy	24
Your policy account value	25
Customer loyalty credit	25
5. Transferring your money among our investment options	27
Transfers you can make	27
Transfers into and out of the MSO	27
How to make transfers	27
Our automatic transfer service	27
Our asset rebalancing service	28

“Financial professional” means the registered representative of either Equitable Advisors, LLC (Equitable Financial Advisors in MI and TN) or an unaffiliated broker dealer which has entered into a selling agreement with Equitable Distributors, LLC who is offering you this policy.

When we address the reader of this prospectus with words such as “you” and “your,” we mean the person or persons having the right or responsibility that the prospectus is discussing at that point. This usually is the policy’s owner. If a policy has more than one owner, all owners must join in the exercise of any rights an owner has under the policy, and the word “owner” therefore refers to all owners.

When we use the word “state” we also mean any other local jurisdiction whose laws or regulations affect a policy.

This prospectus does not offer the policy anywhere such offers are not lawful. The Company does not authorize any information or representation about the offering other than that contained or incorporated in this prospectus, in any current supplements thereto, or in any related sales materials authorized by the Company.

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6. Death benefits and accessing your money	29
About your life insurance benefit	29
You can decrease your insurance coverage	29
Alternative higher death benefit in certain cases	29
Your options for receiving policy proceeds	30
Accessing your money	30
Borrowing from your policy	31
Making withdrawals from your policy	32
Surrendering your policy for its net cash surrender value	33
7. Tax information	34
Basic income tax treatment for you and your beneficiary	34
Tax treatment of distributions to you (loans, partial withdrawals, and full surrender)	34
Tax treatment of Living Benefits Rider under a policy with the rider	36
Business and employer owned policies	36
Requirement that we diversify investments	37
Estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes	37
Pension and profit-sharing plans	37
Split-dollar and other employee benefit programs	37
ERISA	38
3.8% Tax on Net Investment Income or “NII”	38
Our taxes	38
Tax withholding and information reporting	38
Possibility of future tax changes and other tax information	38
8. Other benefits available under the policy	40
Other benefits you can add by rider	42
Charitable Legacy Rider	42
Living Benefits Rider	42
No-Lapse Guarantee Rider	43
Policy Continuation Rider	44
9. More information about policy charges	46
How we allocate charges among your investment options	46
Changes in charges	46
Deducting policy charges	46
Charges that the Trusts deduct	50

10. More information about procedures that apply to your policy	52
Your right to cancel within a certain number of days	52
Dates and prices at which policy events occur	52
Policy issuance	53
Ways to make premium and loan payments	54
Assigning your policy	54
Requirements for surrender requests	54
Gender-neutral policies	55
Future policy exchanges	55
Broker transaction authority	55
11. More information about other matters	56
About our general account	56
Transfers of your policy account value	56
Telephone and Internet requests	57
COVID-19	58
Cybersecurity risks and catastrophic events	58
Suicide and certain misstatements	58
When we pay policy proceeds	59
Changes we can make	59
Reports we will send you	60
Distribution of the policies	60
Legal proceedings	62
12. Financial statements of Separate Account FP and the Company	63
13. Personalized illustrations	64
Illustrations of policy benefits	64

Appendices
Investment options available under the policy	65
Hypothetical illustrations	68
Calculating the death benefit	71
State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits	72
Examples of how the Policy Continuation Rider works	73
Requesting more information Statement of Additional Information

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Definitions of Key Terms

Alternative Death Benefit — We will automatically pay an alternative death benefit if it is higher than the standard death benefit.

Amount at Risk — Our amount at risk on any date is the difference between (a) the death benefit that would be payable if the insured person died on that date and (b) the then total account value under the policy.

Beneficiary — The beneficiary is the person or entity you designate to receive the death benefit payable at the death of the Insured.

Business Day — A business day is generally any day the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open for regular trading and generally ends at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (or as of an earlier close of regular trading). A business day does not include a day on which we are not open due to emergency conditions determined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. We may also close early due to such emergency conditions. Premium payments will be applied and any other transaction requests will be processed when they are received along with all the required information unless another date applies as indicated below.

• If your premium payment, transfer or any other transaction request containing all the required information reaches us on any of the following, we will use the next business day:

— on a non-business day;

— after 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on a business day; or

— after an early close of regular trading on the NYSE on a business day.

Cash Surrender Value — The cash surrender value is equal to the difference between your policy account value and any surrender charges that are in effect under your policy.

Cost of Insurance Charge — The monthly cost of insurance charge is determined by multiplying the cost of insurance rate that is then applicable to your policy by the amount we have at risk under your policy divided by $1,000.

Cost of Insurance Rates — The cost of insurance rates vary depending on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the individual characteristics of the insured, the face amount and the policy year.

Customer Loyalty Credit — A customer loyalty credit may be provided for policies that have been in force for more than a specified number of years depending on your age at policy issuance. This may be added to your policy account value each month.

Face Amount — The face amount represents the amount of insurance coverage you want on the life of the insured person.

Guaranteed Interest Account — This is a fixed account that is part of our General Account.

Guarantee Premium — You can generally guarantee that your policy will not terminate for a number of years by paying at least certain specified amounts of premiums. We call these amounts “guarantee premiums” and they will be set forth in your policy.

Insured — The insured is the person on whose life we base this policy.

Market Stabilizer Option^® (“MSO”) — The MSO is an optional rider that provides you with the opportunity to earn interest that we will credit based in part on the performance of the S&P 500 Price Return Index subject to a possible negative return and a significant loss of principal and previously credited interest. Please see the Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus for more information.

Net Cash Surrender Value — The net cash surrender value equals your policy account value, minus any outstanding loan and unpaid loan interest, minus any amount of your policy account value that is “restricted” as a result of previously distributed terminal illness living benefits, minus any surrender charge that then remains applicable. If you have transferred policy amounts to the MSO, please refer to the Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus for information about how we determine the net cash surrender value of that portion of your policy account value.

Net Policy Account Value — Your “net policy account value” is the total of (i) your amounts in our variable investment options, (ii) your amounts in our guaranteed interest option and (iii) any interest credited on loaned amounts, minus any interest accrued on outstanding loans and minus any “restricted” amounts that we hold in the guaranteed interest option as a result of any payment received under a living benefits rider. The account value of any policy amounts transferred to the Market Stabilizer Option^® is also included in your net policy account value, and is calculated as described in the separate Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus.

No-Lapse Guarantee — This is a rider we offer for no extra charge that provides you with a guarantee against policy termination for a specific period of time.

Owner — The owner of the policy. “You” or “your” refers to the owner.

Policy — The policy with any attached application(s), any riders, and any endorsements.

Policy Account Value — Your “policy account value” is the total of (i) your amounts in our variable investment options,

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(ii) your amounts in our guaranteed interest option and (iii) any amounts that we are holding to secure policy loans that you have taken (including any interest on those amounts which has not yet been allocated to the investment options). See “Borrowing from your policy” in this prospectus. The account value of any policy amounts transferred to the Market Stabilizer Option^® is also included in your policy account value, and is calculated as described in the separate Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus.

Premium Payments — We call the amounts you contribute to your policy “premiums” or “premium payments.”

Register date — Your policy’s “register date” will be shown in your policy and is the date from which we measure the months, years and anniversaries of your policy. Your register date is determined as described in“policy issuance” under “More information about procedures that apply to your policy” in this prospectus.

Segment Maturity Date — The date on which a Segment Term is completed and the Index-Linked Rate of Return for that Segment is applied to a Segment Account Value.

Segment Maturity Value — This is the Segment Account Value adjusted by the Index-Linked Rate of Return for that Segment.

Segment Start Date — The Segment Start Date is the day on which a Segment is created.

Segment Term — The duration of a Segment. The Segment Term for each Segment begins on its Segment Start Date and ends on its Segment Maturity Date approximately one year later. We are currently only offering Segment Terms of approximately one year. We may offer different durations in the future.

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Important Information You Should Consider About the policy:

FEES AND EXPENSES
Charges for Early Withdrawals	We will not deduct a charge for making a partial withdrawal from your policy; however, if you surrender the policy in its first 10 years, you will be subject to a surrender charge of up to 5.59% of face amount. For example, if you surrender your policy in the first year and the policy face amount was $100,000, you could pay a surrender charge of up to $5,587. There is also an MSO Early Distribution Adjustment on amounts withdrawn before segment maturity which could result in a 90% loss of Segment Account Value. See MSO prospectus for more information. For more information on the impacts of withdrawals, please refer to “Making withdrawals from your policy” in this prospectus. For more information on surrender charges, please refer to “Deducting policy charges” in this prospectus.
Transaction Charges	In addition to surrender charges, you may be subject to other transaction charges, including charges on each premium paid under the policy, charges in connection with requests to decrease your policy’s face amount, transfer fees, and other special service charges (e.g., wire transfer charges, express mail charges, policy illustration charges, duplicate policy charges, policy history charges, and charges for returned payments). For more information on transaction charges, please refer to the “Fee Table” in this prospectus.
Ongoing Fees and Expenses (annual charges)	In addition to surrender charges and transaction charges, an investment in the policy is subject to certain ongoing fees and expenses, including fees and expenses covering the cost of insurance under the policy, administration and mortality risks, MSO and loan charges, and the cost of optional benefits available under the policy. Such fees and expenses may be based on characteristics of the insured (e.g., age, sex, risk class and particular health, occupational or vocational risks). You should view the information pages of your policy for rates applicable to your policy.
	You will also bear expenses associated with the variable investment options (the “Portfolios”) under the policy, as shown in the following table:

Annual Fee	Minimum	Maximum
Portfolios	0.58%	3.01%
Portfolio expenses are for the year ended December 31, 2020 and may be based, in part, on estimated amounts of such expenses and may change from year to year. For more information on ongoing fees and expenses, please refer to the “Fee Table” in this prospectus and Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy”, which is part of this prospectus.
The Investment Expense Reduction may apply to the calculation of daily unit values of the variable investment options. The Investment Expense Reduction is described in further detail in the “Fee Table” in this prospectus.

RISKS
Risk of Loss	You may lose money by investing in the policy.
Not a Short-Term Investment	The policy is not a short-term investment and is not appropriate for an investor who needs ready access to cash. The policy is designed to provide benefits on a long-term basis. Consequently, you should not use the policy as a short-term investment or savings vehicle. Because of the long-term nature of the policy, you should consider whether purchasing the policy is consistent with the purpose for which it is being considered.
Risks Associated with Investment Options	An investment in the policy is subject to the risk of poor investment performance and can vary depending on the performance of the Portfolios available under the policy and the MSO and guaranteed investment option (GIO), each of which has its own unique risks. You should review the Portfolios’ prospectuses, the MSO prospectus and the “Guaranteed Interest Option” section in “Investment options within your policy” in this prospectus before making an investment decision. Portfolio prospectuses are available at www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162723.
	For more information on the Portfolios, please refer to Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” in this prospectus.

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Insurance Company Risks	An investment in the policy is subject to the risks related to the Company. Any policy obligations (including under the fixed rate option and under the MSO), guarantees, or benefits are subject to the claims-paying ability of the Company. More information about the Company, including its financial strength ratings, is available at https://equitable.com/selling-life-insurance/financial-strength-ratings. More information about the Company’s general account can be found in “About our general account” in this prospectus.
Policy Lapse	Death benefits will not be paid if the policy has lapsed. Your policy may lapse if due to insufficient premium payments, poor investment performance, withdrawals, unpaid loans or loan interest, your policy account value will not cover policy charges. If your policy is in default, you will be notified in writing and given an opportunity to make an additional payment to keep your policy in force and prevent it from lapsing. The grace period you have to make said additional payment will be 61 days long. If your policy lapses, you will be notified in writing and you may be able make additional payments to restore your policy’s benefits. In this case, additional requirements must also be met to restore your policy. If your policy provides for a no-lapse guarantee, you may have to pay more premiums to have the benefit of the no lapse guarantee. If your policy provides for a policy continuation feature, and the conditions of the rider are satisfied and the rider is exercised, including that there is sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge, then the policy will not lapse.
	For more information on how to prevent your policy from lapsing, please refer to “The minimum amount of premiums you must pay” and “You can guarantee that your policy will not terminate before a certain date” in this prospectus.
RESTRICTIONS
Investments	You may allocate your premiums to any of the Portfolios set forth in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” or to the GIO or the MSO. We reserve the right to remove or substitute Portfolios as investment options under the policy.
	Currently, the total of all transfers of variable investment options you make on the same day must be at least $500; except that you may transfer your entire balance in a single Portfolio, even if it is less than $500.
	We may limit transfers you can make into the GIO, if the current (non-guaranteed) interest crediting rate on the GIO is equal to the guaranteed minimum interest crediting rate of 1.0% (annual rate). For more information, please refer to “Guaranteed Interest Option” in “Investment options within your policy” in this prospectus.
	There may be restrictions upon transfers into and out of the MSO. For more information, see the MSO prospectus.
	We allow only one request for transfers each day (although that request can cover multiple transfers). Only written transfer requests submitted to our Administrative Office may be processed for policies that are jointly owned or assigned. We reserve the right to limit policy transfers if we determine that you are engaged in a disruptive transfer activity, such as “market timing.”
	For more information, please refer to “Variable investment options” and “Transfers you can make” in this prospectus.
Optional Benefits	As a policy owner, you may be able to obtain extra benefits, which may require additional charges. These optional benefits are described in what is known as a “rider” to the policy.
	Optional benefits are subject to additional charges and payments made under these benefits are generally subject to the same transaction fees as other premium payments but may be treated differently for other purposes (e.g., certain death benefit minimums). Optional benefits are not available for all ages (or may terminate at certain ages) and underwriting classifications. We may stop offering an optional benefit at any time.
	For more information on optional benefits and other limitations under the policy, please refer to “Other benefits available under the policy,” “Nonforfeiture Benefit” and “Suicide and certain misstatements” in this prospectus.

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TAXES
Tax Implications	You should consult with a tax professional to determine the tax implications of an investment in and payments received under the policy. There is no additional tax benefit to the investor if the policy is purchased through a tax-qualified plan or individual retirement account (IRA). Withdrawals will be subject to ordinary income tax, and may be subject to tax penalties.
	For more information on tax implications relating to policy investments, please refer to “Tax information” in this prospectus.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Investment Professional Compensation	Some financial professionals may receive compensation for selling the policy to you, both in the form of commissions or in the form of contribution-based compensation. Financial professionals may also receive additional compensation for enhanced marketing opportunities and other services (commonly referred to as “marketing allowances”). This conflict of interest may influence the financial professional to recommend this policy over another investment.
	For more information on investment professional compensation, please refer to “Distribution of the policies” in this prospectus.
Exchanges	Some investment professionals may have a financial incentive to offer you a new policy in place of the one you already own. You should only exchange your policy if you determine, after comparing the features, fees, and risks of both policies, that it is preferable to purchase the new policy, rather than continue to own your current policy.
	For more information on exchanges, please refer to the paragraph titled “Section  1035 exchanges of policies with outstanding loans” under “How you can pay for and contribute to your policy” in this prospectus, as well as the section titled “Future policy exchanges” in this prospectus.

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Overview of the policy

The following summaries provide a brief overview of the more significant aspects of the policy. We provide more complete and detailed information in the subsequent sections of this prospectus and in the statement of additional information and policy contract.

Brief Description of the policy

The policy is a form of variable life insurance, the primary purpose of which is to provide a death benefit which is paid upon the death of the insured person. The policy provides life insurance coverage, plus the opportunity for you to earn a return in (i) our guaranteed interest option, (ii) an indexed-linked investment option we refer to as the Market Stabilizer Option^®(“MSO”), if available, which is described in a separate prospectus and/or (iii) one or more of the Portfolios, which are listed in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this prospectus. The policy may be appropriate if you have a long-term investment horizon and is not intended for short-term investment, and is therefore not appropriate for people who may need to make early or frequent withdrawals or who intend to engage in frequent trading. You have considerable flexibility to tailor the policy to meet your needs.

Some policy forms, features and/or riders described in this prospectus may be subject to state variations or may not be available in all states. See Appendix: “State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits” for state availability and a description of all material variations to features and riders that differ from the description contained in the prospectus.

The form number for this policy is ICC21-21-100. A state and/or other code may follow the form number. Your policy’s form number is located in the lower left hand corner of the first page of your policy.

Premiums

The policy offers flexibility in paying premiums. With certain exceptions, you choose the timing and the amount of premium payments. Payment of insufficient premiums may result in a lapse of the policy.

A policy must satisfy the cash value accumulation test to qualify as a life insurance contract for tax purposes under the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”).

If at any time your policy account value is high enough that the alternative higher death benefit would apply, we reserve the right to limit the amount of any premiums that you pay, unless the insured person provides us with evidence of insurability satisfactory to us.

You can allocate your policy’s value to the Portfolios, to the guaranteed interest option or to the MSO, if available. Additional information on the available Portfolios are listed in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy”. The guaranteed interest option pays a fixed rate of interest that we declare periodically with a 1.0% minimum. The MSO rider, if available under your policy, provides you with the opportunity to earn interest that we will credit based in part on the performance of the S&P 500 Price Return Index subject to the possibility of negative returns and significant loss of principal and previously credited interest. Different procedures and additional restrictions on withdrawals, loans, surrender and right to cancel apply to the MSO. For additional information see the MSO prospectus.

Contract Features

Types of Death Benefit – If the insured dies, we pay a life insurance benefit to the “beneficiary” you have named.

The standard death benefit under the policy is the policy’s face amount on the date of the insured’s death. The amount of this death benefit doesn’t change over time, unless you take any action that changes the policy’s face amount.

There is also an alternative higher death benefit paid in certain circumstances. For additional detail regarding the calculation and payment of death benefits see “Death benefits and accessing your money” in the prospectus.

Loans – You may borrow money from your policy, subject to certain limitations. Interest charges will apply.

Withdrawals – Subject to certain conditions, you may withdraw a part of your policy’s cash surrender value without surrendering the policy.

Surrendering the policy – A policy may be surrendered for its net cash surrender value while the insured is living. Surrender charges and/or tax penalties may apply.

Riders – You may be able to obtain extra fixed benefits under the policy, which may require additional charges. These optional insurance benefits are referenced herein as “riders” to the policy.

You may be eligible for the following riders:

• Charitable Legacy Rider: An optional rider may be elected at issue that provides an additional death benefit of 1% of the base policy face amount to the qualified charitable organization(s) chosen by the policy owner at no additional cost.

• Living Benefits Rider: This feature enables you to receive a portion (generally the lesser of 75% or $250,000) of

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• the policy’s death benefit (excluding death benefits payable under certain other policy riders), if the insured person has a terminal illness (as defined in the rider). We make no additional charge for the rider, but we will deduct a one-time administrative charge of up to $250 from any living benefit we pay. This rider will automatically be included at issue if you apply for a face amount of at least $100,000. There will be a $100 administrative charge if this rider is not added at issue.

• No-Lapse Guarantee Rider: This rider provides you with a guarantee against policy termination for a specific period of time. This rider is automatically added to policies at no additional cost.

• Policy Continuation Rider: Your policy offers an additional feature against policy termination due to an outstanding loan if the criteria for Rider are satisfied, including [get language from rider], called “policy continuation.” If this rider is exercised, there is a one-time charge. See “Policy Continuation Charge” in this prospectus. This rider is automatically included in your policy.

Depending on when your policy was purchased, certain variations may apply which differ from the information contained in this section. In addition, depending on where your policy was issued, certain features or benefits may not be available or vary from the policy’s features and benefits described in this prospectus. Please see Appendix: “State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits” to this prospectus for more information.

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Fee Table

The following tables describe the fees and expenses that you will pay when buying, owning, and surrendering or making withdrawals from the policy. Please refer to your policy’s information pages for information about the specific fees you will pay each year based on the options you have elected.

The first table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay at the time that you buy the policy, surrender or make withdrawals from the policy, or transfer cash value between Portfolios.

Transaction Fees
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
Premium charge	Upon each premium payment	5% of each premium(1)
Surrender (turning in) of your policy during its first 10 years(2)	Upon surrender	6% of each premium(3), not to exceed an amount per $1,000 of initial base policy face amount Highest: $55.87 Lowest: $20.63
Charge for a Representative Investor (male age 35 at issue in the preferred elite non-tobacco user risk class)	Upon surrender	Representative: $28.26
Request a decrease in your policy’s face amount during its first 10 years(2)	Effective date of the decrease	A pro rata portion of the charge that would apply to a full surrender at the time of the decrease.
MSO Early Distribution Adjustment	On surrender or other distribution (including loan) from an MSO Segment prior to its Segment Maturity Date	90% of Segment Account Value(4)
Transfer Fees	Upon transfer	$25 per transfer(5)
Special Services Charges •   Wire transfer charge(6) •   Express mail charge(6) •   Policy illustration charge(7) •   Duplicate policy charge(8) •   Policy history charge(8)(9) •   Charge for returned payments(8)	At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction	Charge: $90 Charge: $35 Maximum Charge: $25 Charge: $35 Maximum Charge: $50 Charge: $25

(1) Currently, we reduce this charge to 4% in year 1 after an amount equal to one sales load “target premium” has been paid. In years 2+, this charge is 4% for all premium paid. The “target premium” is actuarially determined for each policy, based on that policy’s specific characteristics, including the policy’s face amount, among other factors.

(2) This charge varies based on individual characteristics of the insured, and may not be representative of the charge that you will pay. In particular, the initial amount of the surrender charge depends on each insured’s specific characteristics. Your financial professional can provide you with more information about these charges as they relate to the insured’s particular characteristics. See “Deducting policy charges” under “More information about policy charges.”

(3) The surrender charge percentage of premium we use is determined by the policy year in which you surrender your contract to receive its cash value, or reduce the face amount of your policy as provided in the following table:

Table of Premium Based Surrender Charges
Policy Year of Premium Payment	Policy Year of Surrender
	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11 +
1		6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%		0%		0%		0%		0%
2				6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%		0%		0%		0%
3						6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%		0%		0%
4								6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%		0%
5										6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%
6												6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%
7														6%		5%		4%		3%		0%
8+																0%		0%		0%		0%

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(4) The actual amount of Early Distribution Adjustment is determined by a formula that depends on, among other things, how a specified widely published stock market index has performed since the Segment Start Date. The maximum amount of the adjustment would occur if there is a total distribution at a time when that index had declined to zero. Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for more information about the index and Early Distribution Adjustment.

(5) No charge, however, will ever apply to a transfer of all of your variable investment option amounts to our guaranteed interest option, or to any transfer pursuant to our automatic transfer service or asset rebalancing service as discussed in this prospectus. The transfer charge will not apply to amounts transferred into or out of the MSO. Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for more information about transfer charges.

(6) Unless you specify otherwise, this charge will be deducted from the amount you request.

(7) We do not currently charge this fee, but reserve the right to in the future.

(8) The charge for this service must be paid using funds outside of your policy. Please see “Deducting policy charges” under “More Information about policy charges” for more information.

(9) The charge for this service may be less depending on the policy history you request. Please see “Deducting policy charges” under “More Information about policy charges” for more information.

The next table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay periodically during the time that you own the policy, not including Portfolio fees and expenses.

Periodic Charges Other Than Annual Portfolio Company Expenses
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
Base Contract Charge:
Administrative expenses(1)(2)	Monthly	(1)  Policy Year	Amount Deducted
		1      2+	$15 $10
		plus

	(2)  Charge per $1,000 of the initial base policy face amount:
	Highest: $1.60      Lowest: $0.33
Charge for Representative Investor (guaranteed rate for a male age 35 at issue in the preferred elite non-tobacco user risk class)	Representative: $0.37

Cost of Insurance(1)(2)(3): Minimum and Maximum Charge	Monthly	Charge per $1,000 of the amount for which we are at risk:(4) Highest: $83.34 Lowest: $0.03
Charge for a Representative Investor (male age 35 at issue; preferred elite non-tobacco user risk class)	Monthly	Representative: $0.12
Mortality and Expense Risk Fees	Monthly	Policy Year	Annual % of your value in our variable investment options and the MSO (if applicable)(5)
		1-10 11+	1.00% 0.50%

Loan Interest Spread⁽⁶⁾ On each policy anniversary (or on loan termination, if earlier) 1% of loan amount.

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Periodic Charges Other Than Annual Portfolio Company Expenses
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
Optional Benefit Charges:
Charitable Legacy Rider	N/A	No additional charge.
Market Stabilizer Option® (MSO)(7)
MSO Variable Index Segment Account Charge	At the beginning of each policy month during the MSO Segment Term	1.65% calculated as an annual % of your Segment Account Value(8)
MSO loan spread(9) for Amounts of policy Loans Allocated to MSO Segment	On each policy anniversary (or on loan termination, if earlier)	5%
Policy Continuation Rider	Once — on the date the rider is exercised	The charge is equal to the policy account value on the date of exercise, multiplied by the Policy Continuation Charge Rate:
		Maximum rate 13.10%(10)
Adding Living Benefits Rider	Once — on the date the rider is exercised	$100 (if elected after policy issue)
Exercising Living Benefits Rider	At the time of the transaction	$250

(1) This charge varies based on individual characteristics of the insured, and may not be representative of the charge that you will pay. Your financial professional can provide you with more information about these charges as they relate to the insured’s particular characteristics. See “Deducting policy charges” under “More information about policy charges.”

(2) Not applicable after the insured person reaches age 121.

(3) Insured persons who present particular health, occupational or vocational risks may be charged other additional charges as specified in their policies.

(4) Our amount “at risk” is the difference between the amount of death benefit and the policy account value as of the deduction date.

(5) For more information about the MSO, please refer to the separate MSO prospectus.

(6) We charge interest on policy loans but credit you with interest on the amount of the policy account value we hold as collateral for the loan. The rate is the greater of (a) 2.0% or (b) the “Monthly Average Corporate” yield published by Moody’s Corporate Bond Yield Averages for the month that ends two months before the interest rate is set. The loan interest spread is the excess of the interest rate we charge over the interest rate we credit, which will not exceed 1%. For more information on the maximum rate see “Borrowing from your policy — Loan interest we charge” in “Accessing your money” in this prospectus.

(7) Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for information about the MSO and related charges and deductions, as well as the meaning of special terms that are relevant to the MSO (such as “Segment,” “Segment Term,” “Segment Start Date,” “Segment Account Value” and “Early Distribution Adjustment”).

(8) Currently we deduct this charge at a 0.40% annual rate, rather than at the maximum rate shown.

(9) We charge interest on policy loans but credit you with interest on the amount of the policy account value we hold as collateral for the loan. The “spread” is the difference between the interest rate we charge you on a policy loan and the interest rate we credit to you on the amount of your policy account value that we hold as collateral for the loan. Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for more information.

(10) This is the maximum rate for an insured person who has attained age 75. The rate declines each year based on attained age.

The next item shows the minimum and maximum total operating expenses charged by the Portfolios that you may pay periodically during the time that you own the policy. A complete list of Portfolios available under the policy, including their annual expenses, may be found in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy”.

Annual Portfolio Company Expenses	Minimum		Maximum
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses before the effect of Expense Limitation Arrangements (expenses that are deducted from Portfolio asset, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fee, and other expenses)(1)		0.58%	3.01%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses after the effect of Expense Limitation Arrangements(1)		0.55%	1.65%

(1) “Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses” are for the year ended December 31, 2020 and may be based, in part, on estimated amounts of such expenses. Pursuant to a contract, Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC has agreed to make payments or waive its management, administrative and other fees to limit the expenses of certain affiliated Portfolios through April 30, 2022 (“Expense Limitation Arrangement”) (unless the Trust’s Board of Trustees consents to an earlier revision or termination of this agreement). The Expense Limitation Arrangement may be terminated by Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC at any time after April 30, 2022. The Expense Limitation Arrangement does not apply to unaffiliated Portfolios.

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You bear your proportionate share of all fees and expenses paid by a Portfolio that corresponds to any variable investment option you are using. This table shows the lowest and highest total operating expenses currently charged by any of the Portfolios that you will pay periodically during the time that you own the Policy. These fees and expenses are reflected in the Portfolio’s net asset value each day. Therefore, they reduce the investment return of the Portfolio and the related variable investment option. Actual fees and expenses are likely to fluctuate from year to year. More detail concerning each Portfolio’s fees and expenses is contained in the Trust prospectus for that Portfolio.

Investment Expense Reduction Applied to the Calculation of Daily Unit Values

We will apply an expense reduction in the calculation of the daily unit values of each variable investment option of our separate account (the “Investment Expense Reduction”). The Investment Expense Reduction for each variable investment option will be determined based upon the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses of each variable investment option’s corresponding Portfolio. The Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense is defined as the Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense after the application of any contractual expense limitation arrangements that are in place for more than one year.

The Investment Expense Reduction for each variable investment option will be initially determined and then annually updated, based upon the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense of each variable investment option’s corresponding Portfolio either (1) as shown in the annual Portfolio prospectuses dated on or about May 1st of each calendar year, for existing Portfolios which are effective as of that date; or (2) as shown in the initial effective Portfolio prospectuses, for new portfolios that become effective after that date, as applicable. The Investment Expense Reduction will be calculated based upon which of the three ranges (less than 0.80%, 0.80% through 1.15%, or greater than 1.15%) in the table below that the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense falls into. The ranges and formula amounts shown in the table below will not change while your policy remains in effect.

During the year, the Investment Expense Reduction will be applied daily and will be equal to the daily equivalent of the annual Investment Expense Reduction percentage that is defined in the table below. You should be aware that actual portfolio operating expenses will generally fluctuate daily, so after the application of the Investment Expense Reduction, the resulting expenses you pay may increase or decrease from one day to the next. In addition, the Investment Expense Reduction for each variable investment option is not intended to exceed the portion of the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses of each variable investment option’s corresponding Portfolio applied as of the day each unit value is calculated.

For example, if the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense of a Portfolio is shown as 0.75% in the applicable Portfolio prospectus, then the annual Investment Expense Reduction would be calculated based upon the row of the table below that is labeled “Less than 0.80%,” and therefore the annual Investment Expense Reduction for the variable investment option investing in that Portfolio would be 0.35% (the greater of 0.15% and the excess of 0.75% over 0.40%). Furthermore, in this example, if the actual Net Total Portfolio Operating Expenses on any given day were below the daily equivalent of 0.35% annually, the Investment Expense Reduction for that day would not exceed the actual Net Total Portfolio Operating Expenses for that day.

If the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses (before the Investment Expense Reduction) are:	Then the annual Investment Expense Reduction(**) for that Variable Investment Option will be:
Less than 0.80%	The amount equal to the greater of 0.15% and any excess of the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense over 0.40%. However, in no event will the annual Investment Expense Reduction exceed the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses.
0.80% through 1.15%	The amount equal to the greater of 0.15% and any excess of the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense over 0.80%. However, in no event will the annual Investment Expense Reduction exceed the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses.
Greater than 1.15%	0.15%

** Because the expenses contained in the Trust prospectus for each Portfolio reflect annual expenses, the actual expenses incurred may be higher or lower on any given day.

After applying the Investment Expense Reduction to the variable investment options, the lowest and highest net annual portfolio operating expenses paid by the policy owner for the year ended December 31, 2020, would have been: Lowest
0.40% Highest
1.50%

You will find the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses for each Portfolio, which will enable you to determine the applicable Investment Expense Reduction, in the separate Trust prospectuses. To obtain copies of Trust prospectuses, you may call 1-877-522-5035. Portfolio prospectuses are also available at www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162723.

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1. Principal risks of investing in the policy

Risks of investing in a policy

The policy is unsuitable as a short-term savings vehicle. The policy may be appropriate if you have a long-term investment horizon and is not intended for short-term investment, and is therefore not appropriate for people who may need to make early or frequent withdrawals or who intend to engage in frequent trading. The principal risks of investing in a policy are as follows:

• If the investment options you choose perform poorly, you could lose some or all of the premiums you pay.

• If the investment options you choose do not make enough money to pay for the policy charges, except to the extent provided by any no-lapse guarantee you may have to pay more premiums to keep your policy from terminating.

• Your policy will lapse and possibly terminate without value if it does not have enough net policy account value to pay monthly charges when due, and this could occur due to insufficient premium payments, policy charges, policy loans, partial withdrawals, and/or poor investment performance. If your policy lapses and terminates you will not be paid a death benefit.

• If you take a policy loan or a partial withdrawal you may decrease the net policy account value, cash surrender value and/or death benefit and may risk the loss of the no lapse guarantee.

• There are unique risks associated with the MSO including loss of principal and previously credited interest up to 90% of Segment Account Value and adjustments in account value if amounts are withdrawn prior to the end of a Segment Term.

• We can increase, without your consent and subject to any necessary regulatory approvals, any charge that you currently pay at less than the maximum amount. We will not increase any charge beyond the highest maximum noted in the tables in “Fee Table” in this prospectus.

• There may be adverse tax consequences associated with taking a policy loan or making a partial withdrawal from your policy.

• You may have to pay a surrender charge and there may be adverse tax consequences if you wish to discontinue some or all of your insurance coverage under a policy.

• Partial withdrawals from your policy are available only after the first policy year and must be at least $500 and no more than the net cash surrender value. Under certain circumstances, we will automatically reduce your policy’s face amount as a result of a partial withdrawal.

• The guarantees we make to you under this policy are supported by the Company’s general account and are subject to the Company’s claims paying ability. You should look solely to the financial strength of the Company for its claims-paying ability.

Your policy permits other transactions that also have risks. These and other risks and benefits of investing in a policy are discussed in detail throughout this prospectus.

A comprehensive discussion of the risks of each variable investment option may be found in the Trust prospectus for that investment option and in the MSO prospectus.

How the variable life insurance policy is available

The policy is primarily intended for purchasers other than retirement plans. However, we do not place limitations on its use. Please see “Tax information” for more information. The policy is available for issue ages 18 to 65.

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2. The Company

We are Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company, a New York stock life insurance corporation. We have been doing business since 1859. The Company is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Equitable Holdings, Inc. No other company has any legal responsibility to pay amounts that the Company owes under the policies. The Company is solely responsible for paying all amounts owed to you under your policy.

Equitable Holdings, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries managed approximately $800 billion in assets as of December 31, 2020. For more than 160 years the Company has been among the largest insurance companies in the United States. We are licensed to sell life insurance and annuities in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Our home office is located at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104.

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How to reach us

To obtain (1) any forms you need for communicating with us, (2) unit values and other values under your policy, and (3) any other information or materials that we provide in connection with your policy or the Portfolios, you may communicate with our Administrative Office as listed below for the purposes described. Please refer to “Telephone and Internet requests” for effective dates for processing telephone, Internet and fax requests, in this prospectus.

By mail:

At the Post Office Box for our Administrative Office:

Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company — Life Operations Center

P.O. Box 1047

Charlotte, North Carolina 28201-1047

By express delivery only:

At the Street Address for our Administrative Office:

Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company — Life Operations Center

8501 IBM Drive, Suite 150

Charlotte, North Carolina 28262-4333

1-704-341-7000 (for express delivery purposes only)

By Phone:

Monday to Thursday, 8:30 am to 7:00 pm and Friday, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, Eastern Time: 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.).

By e-mail:

life-service@equitable.com

By fax:

1-855-268-6378

By Internet:

You may register for online account access at www.equitable.com. Our website provides access to account information and customer service. After registering, you can view account details, perform certain transactions, print customer service forms and find answers to common questions.

Required Forms.  We require that the following types of communications be on specific forms we provide for that purpose:

(1) request for our automatic transfer service (our dollar cost averaging service);

(2) request for our asset rebalancing service;

(3) transfers among investment options (if submitted by e-mail);

(4) designation of new policy owner(s);

(5) designation of new beneficiary(ies); and

(6) authorization for transfers by your financial professional.

Other Requests. We also have specific forms that we recommend you use for the following:

(a) policy surrenders;

(b) transfers among investment options (not submitted by e-mail); and

(c) changes in allocation percentages for premiums and deductions.

You can also change your allocation percentages, transfer among investment options and/or change your address (1) by phone, (2) over the Internet, through www.equitable.com or (3) by writing our Administrative Office. For more information about transaction requests you can make by phone or over the Internet, see “How to make transfers” and “Telephone and Internet requests” in this prospectus.

Certain methods of contacting us, such as by telephone or electronically, may be unavailable or delayed (for example our fax service may not be available at all times and/or we may be unavailable due to emergency closing). In addition, the level and type of service available may be restricted based on criteria established by us.

We reserve the right to limit access to these services if we determine that you are engaged in a disruptive transfer activity, such as “market timing.” (See “Disruptive transfer activity” in “More information about other matters.”)

Formal Requirements.  Except for properly authorized telephone or Internet transactions, any notice or request that does not use our standard form must be in writing. It must be dated and signed by you and should also specify your name, title (if applicable), the insured person’s name (if different), your policy number and adequate details about the notice you wish to give or other action you wish us to take. We may require you to return your policy to us before we make certain policy changes that you may request.

The proper person to sign forms, notices and requests would normally be the owner or any other person that our procedures permit to exercise the right or privilege in question. If there are joint owners all must sign. Any irrevocable beneficiary or assignee that we have on our records also must sign certain types of requests.

You should send all requests, notices and payments to our Administrative Office at the addresses specified above. We will also accept requests and notices by fax at the above number, if we believe them to be genuine. We reserve the right, however, to require an original signature before acting on any faxed item. You must send premium payments after the first one to our Administrative Office at the above addresses; except that you should send any premiums for which we have billed you to the address on the billing notice.

About our Separate Account FP

Each variable investment option is a part (or “subaccount”) of our Separate Account FP. We established Separate Account FP under special provisions of the New York

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Insurance Law. These provisions prevent creditors from any other business we conduct from reaching the assets we hold in our variable investment options for owners of our variable life insurance policies. We are the legal owner of all of the assets in Separate Account FP and may withdraw any amounts that exceed our reserves and other liabilities with respect to variable investment options under our policies. The assets under Separate Account FP may not be used to pay any liabilities of the Company other than those arising from the policy. For example, we may withdraw amounts from Separate Account FP that represent our investments in Separate Account FP or that represent fees and charges under the policies that we have earned. Income, gains and losses credited to, or charged against Separate Account FP reflect its own investment experience and not the investment experience of the Company’s other assets.

Separate Account FP is registered with the SEC under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and is registered and classified under that act as a “unit investment trust.” The SEC, however, does not manage or supervise the Company or Separate Account FP. Although the Separate Account is registered, the SEC does not monitor the activity of Separate Account FP on a daily basis. The Company is not required to register, and is not registered, as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Each subaccount (variable investment option) of Separate Account FP available under the policy invests solely in the applicable class of shares issued by the corresponding Portfolio of the applicable Trust. Separate Account FP immediately reinvests all dividends and other distributions it receives from a Portfolio in additional shares of that class in that Portfolio.

The Trusts sell their shares to the Company separate accounts in connection with the Company’s variable life insurance and/or annuity products, and to separate accounts of insurance companies, both affiliated and unaffiliated with the Company. EQ Advisors Trust and EQ Premier VIP Trust also sell their shares to the trustee of a qualified plan for the Company. We currently do not foresee any disadvantages to our policy owners arising out of these arrangements. However, the Board of Trustees or Directors of each Trust intends to monitor events to identify any material irreconcilable conflicts that may arise and to determine what action, if any, should be taken in response. If we believe that a Board’s response insufficiently protects our policyowners, we will see to it that appropriate action is taken to do so.

Your voting privileges

Voting of Portfolio shares.  As the legal owner of any Portfolio shares that support a variable investment option, we will attend (and have the right to vote at) any meeting of shareholders of the Portfolio (or the Trusts). To satisfy currently-applicable legal requirements, however, we will give you the opportunity to tell us how to vote the number of each Portfolio’s shares that are attributable to your policy. The number of full and fractional votes you are entitled to will be determined

by dividing the policy account value (minus any policy indebtedness) allocable to an investment option by the net asset value per unit for the Portfolio underlying that investment option. We will vote shares attributable to policies for which we receive no instructions in the same proportion as the instructions we do receive from all policies that participate in our Separate Account FP (discussed below). With respect to any Portfolio shares that we are entitled to vote directly (because we do not hold them in a separate account or because they are not attributable to policies), we will vote in proportion to the instructions we have received from all holders of variable annuity and variable life insurance policies who are using that Portfolio. One effect of proportional voting is that a small number of policy owners may control the outcome of a vote.

Under current legal requirements, we may disregard the voting instructions we receive from policy owners only in certain narrow circumstances prescribed by SEC regulations. If we do, we will advise you of the reasons in the next annual or semiannual report we send to you.

Voting as policy owner.  In addition to being able to instruct voting of Portfolio shares as discussed above, policy owners that use our variable investment options may in a few instances be called upon to vote on matters that are not the subject of a shareholder vote being taken by any Portfolio. If so, you will have one vote for each $100 of policy account value in any such option; and we will vote our interest in Separate Account FP in the same proportion as the instructions we receive from holders of this policy and other policies that Separate Account FP supports.

About the Trusts

The Trusts are registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. They are classified as “open-end management investment companies,” more commonly called mutual funds. Each Trust issues different shares relating to each Portfolio.

The Trusts do not impose sales charges or “loads” for buying and selling their shares. All dividends and other distributions on the Trusts’ shares are reinvested in full. The Board of Trustees of each Trust serves for the benefit of each Trust’s shareholders. The Board of Trustees may take many actions regarding the Portfolios (for example, the Board of Trustees can establish additional Portfolios or eliminate existing Portfolios; change Portfolio investment objectives; and change Portfolio investment policies and strategies). In accordance with applicable law, certain of these changes may be implemented without a shareholder vote and, in certain instances, without advanced notice. More detailed information about certain actions subject to notice and shareholder vote for each Trust, and other information about the Portfolios, including portfolio investment objectives, policies, restrictions, risks, expenses, its Rule 12b-1 plan and other aspects of its operations, appears in the prospectuses for each Trust or in their respective SAIs, which are available upon request. For more information on the Portfolios, please refer to “Appendix: Investment options available under the policy” in this prospectus.

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3. About the Portfolios of the Trusts

We offer both affiliated and unaffiliated Trusts, which in turn offer one or more Portfolios. Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC (“Equitable IMG”), formerly AXA Equitable Funds Management Group, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, serves as the investment adviser of the Portfolios of EQ Premier VIP Trust and EQ Advisors Trust. For some affiliated Portfolios, Equitable IMG has entered into sub-advisory agreements with one or more other investment advisers (the “sub-advisers”) to carry out investment decisions for the Portfolios. As such, among other responsibilities, Equitable IMG oversees the activities of the sub-advisers with respect to the affiliated Trusts and is responsible for retaining or discontinuing the services of those sub-advisers. The chart in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” indicates the sub-adviser(s) for each Portfolio, if any. The chart in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” also shows the currently available Portfolios and their investment objectives.

You should be aware that Equitable Advisors, LLC (Equitable Financial Advisors in MI and TN), (“Equitable Advisors”) and Equitable Distributors, LLC (“Equitable Distributors”) (together, the “Distributors”) directly or indirectly receive 12b-1 fees from affiliated Portfolios for providing certain distribution and/or shareholder support services. These fees will not exceed 0.25% of the Portfolios’ average daily net assets. The affiliated Portfolios’ sub-advisers and/or their affiliates may also contribute to the cost of expenses for sales meetings or seminar sponsorships that may relate to the contracts and/or the sub-advisers’ respective Portfolios. In addition, Equitable IMG, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, receives management fees and administrative fees in connection with the services it provides to the Portfolios. As such, it may be more profitable for us to offer affiliated Portfolios than to offer unaffiliated Portfolios.

The Company or the Distributors may directly or indirectly receive 12b-1 fees and additional payments from certain unaffiliated Portfolios, their advisers, sub-advisers, distributors or affiliates, for providing certain administrative, marketing, distribution and/or shareholder support services. These fees and payments range from 0% to 0.60% of the unaffiliated Portfolios’ average daily net assets. The Distributors may also receive payments from the advisers or sub-advisers of the unaffiliated Portfolios or their affiliates for certain distribution services, including expenses for sales meetings or seminar sponsorships that may relate to the contracts and/or the advisers’ respective Portfolios.

As a policy owner, you may bear the costs of some or all of these fees and payments through your indirect investment in the Portfolios. (See the Portfolios’ prospectuses for more information.) These fees and payments, as well as the Portfolios’ investment management fees and administrative expenses, will reduce the underlying Portfolios’ investment returns. The Company may profit from these fees and payments. The Company considers the availability of these fees and payment arrangements during the selection process for the underlying Portfolios. These fees and payment arrangements may create an incentive for us to select Portfolios (and classes of shares of Portfolios) that pay us higher amounts.

Some affiliated Portfolios invest in other affiliated Portfolios (the ”EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios”). The EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios offer policy owners a convenient opportunity to invest in other Portfolios that are managed and have been selected for inclusion in the EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios by Equitable IMG. Equitable Advisors, an affiliated broker-dealer of the Company, may promote the benefits of such Portfolios to policy owners and/or suggest that policy owners consider whether allocating some or all of their account value to such Portfolios is consistent with their desired investment objectives. In doing so, the Company, and/or its affiliates, may be subject to conflicts of interest insofar as the Company may derive greater revenues from the EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios than certain other Portfolios available to you under your policy. Please see “Allocating your contributions” for more information about your role in managing your allocations.

As described in more detail in the Portfolio prospectuses, the EQ Managed Volatility Portfolios may utilize a proprietary volatility management strategy developed by Equitable IMG (the “EQ volatility management strategy”) and, in addition, certain EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios may invest in affiliated Portfolios that utilize this strategy. The EQ volatility management strategy employs various volatility management techniques, such as the use of ETFs or futures and options, to reduce the Portfolio’s equity exposure during periods when certain market indicators indicate that market volatility is above specific thresholds set for the Portfolio. When market volatility is increasing above the specific thresholds set for a Portfolio utilizing the EQ volatility management strategy, the adviser of the Portfolio may reduce equity exposure. Although this strategy is intended to reduce the overall risk of investing in the Portfolio, it may not effectively protect the Portfolio from market declines and may increase its losses. Further, during such times, the Portfolio’s exposure to equity securities may be less than that of a traditional equity portfolio. This may limit the Portfolio’s participation in market gains and result in periods of underperformance, including those periods when the specified benchmark index is appreciating, but market volatility is high.

The EQ Managed Volatility Portfolios that include the EQ volatility management strategy as part of their investment objective and/or principal investment strategy, and the EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios that invest in other Portfolios that use the EQ volatility management strategy, are identified in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this prospectus.

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Portfolios that utilize the EQ volatility management strategy (or, in the case of certain EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios, invest in other Portfolios that use the EQ volatility management strategy) are designed to reduce the overall volatility of your account value and provide you with risk-adjusted returns over time. During rising markets, the EQ volatility management strategy, however, could result in your account value rising less than would have been the case had you been invested in a Portfolio that does not utilize the EQ volatility management strategy or, in the case of the EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios, that invest exclusively in other Portfolios that do not use the volatility management strategy. Conversely, investing in investment options that feature a managed-volatility strategy may be helpful in a declining market when high market volatility triggers a reduction in the investment option’s equity exposure because during these periods of high volatility, the risk of losses from investing in equity securities may increase. In these instances, your account value may decline less than would have been the case had you not been invested in investment options that feature a volatility management strategy.

Please see the underlying Portfolio prospectuses for more information in general, as well as more information about the EQ volatility management strategy. Please further note that certain other affiliated Portfolios, as well as unaffiliated Portfolios, may utilize volatility management techniques that differ from the EQ volatility management strategy. Such techniques could also impact your account value in the same manner described above. Please see the Portfolio prospectuses for more information about the Portfolios’ objective and strategies.

Asset Transfer Program.  Portfolio allocations in certain of our variable annuity contracts with guaranteed benefits are subject to our Asset Transfer Program (ATP) feature. The ATP helps us manage our financial exposure in connection with providing certain guaranteed benefits, by using predetermined mathematical formulas to move account value between the EQ/Ultra Conservative Strategy Portfolio (an investment option utilized solely by the ATP) and the other Portfolios offered under those contracts. You should be aware that operation of the predetermined mathematical formulas underpinning the ATP has the potential to adversely impact the Portfolios, including their performance, risk profile and expenses. This means that Portfolio investments in contracts with no ATP feature, such as yours, could still be adversely impacted. Particularly during times of high market volatility, if the ATP triggers substantial asset flows into and out of a Portfolio, it could have the following effects on all contract owners invested in that Portfolio:

(a) By requiring a Portfolio sub-adviser to buy and sell large amounts of securities at inopportune times, a Portfolio’s investment performance and the ability of the sub-adviser to fully implement the Portfolio’s investment strategy could be negatively affected; and

(b) By generating higher turnover in its securities or other assets than it would have experienced without being impacted by the ATP, a Portfolio could incur higher operating expense ratios and transaction costs than comparable funds. In addition, even Portfolios structured as funds-of-funds that are not available for investment by contract owners who are subject to the ATP could also be impacted by the ATP if those Portfolios invest in underlying funds that are themselves subject to significant asset turnover caused by the ATP. Because the ATP formulas generate unique results for each contract, not all contract owners who are subject to the ATP will be affected by operation of the ATP in the same way. On any particular day on which the ATP is activated, some contract owners may have a portion of their account value transferred to the EQ/Ultra Conservative Strategy Portfolio investment option and others may not. If the ATP causes significant transfers of total account value out of one or more Portfolios, any resulting negative effect on the performance of those Portfolios will be experienced to a greater extent by a contract owner (with or without the ATP) invested in those Portfolios whose account value was not subject to the transfers.

Information regarding each Portfolio, including (i) its name; (ii) its type (e.g., money market fund, bond fund, balanced fund, etc.); (iii) its investment adviser and subadviser(s), as applicable; (iv) current expenses; and (v) performance is available in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to the prospectus. Separate prospectuses that contain more detailed information about the Portfolios have been issued by their respective Trusts.

You should consider the investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses of the Portfolios carefully before investing. The prospectuses for the Trusts contain this and other important information about the Portfolios. The prospectuses should be read carefully before investing. In order to obtain copies of the Trust prospectuses, you may call 1-877-522-5035 or go to www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162723.

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4. Payment of premiums and determining your policy’s value

Max Underwriting Program (the “Max program”)

The Max program is an accelerated underwriting option that does not include the requirements for traditional underwriting such as an in-person paramedical exam, lab work or evaluation of an attending physician’s statement for the proposed insured. Instead, the Max program relies on data sources available electronically such as prescription history and your motor vehicle report. If approved, you will be eligible for a policy at a Select underwriting classification. The Select underwriting classification is only available for non-tobacco users.

The Max program is not available for a 1035 exchange, replacement or if you are converting from a term life policy or term rider. Instead of the Max program, traditional underwriting is an option. The traditional underwriting process may result in underwriting classifications that result in a lower cost of insurance charge. However, under traditional underwriting, you may be declined or you may obtain a rating which results in a higher cost of insurance charge. Issue ages for the Max program are 20-55.

The maximum face amount under the Max program is $2,000,000. The Max program may not be available in all jurisdictions.

How you can pay for and contribute to your policy

Premium payments.  We call the amounts you contribute to your policy “premiums” or “premium payments.” The amount we require as your first premium varies depending on the specifics of your policy and the insured person. Each subsequent premium payment must be at least $50, although we can increase this minimum if we give you advance notice. Otherwise, with a few exceptions mentioned below, you can make premium payments at any time and in any amount.

Section 1035 exchanges of policies with outstanding loans.  If we approve, you may purchase a policy through an assignment and exchange of another life insurance policy with a cash surrender value pursuant to a valid exchange under Section 1035 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). If such other policy is subject to a policy loan, we may permit you to carry over all or a portion of such loan to the policy, subject to our administrative rules then in effect. In this case, we will treat any cash paid, plus any loaned amount carried over to the policy, as premium received in consideration of our issuing the policy. If we allow you to carry over all or a portion of any such outstanding loan, then we will hold amounts securing such loan in the same manner as the collateral for any other policy loan, and your policy also will be subject to all our other rules regarding loans (see “Borrowing from your policy” in this prospectus).

You can generally pay premiums at such times and in such amounts as you like before the policy anniversary nearest to the insured’s 121st birthday, so long as you don’t exceed certain limits determined by the federal income tax laws applicable to life insurance.

The cash value accumulation test and limits on premium payments.  A policy must satisfy the cash value accumulation test to qualify as a life insurance contract for tax purposes under Section 7702 of the Code.

If at any time your policy account value is high enough that the alternative higher death benefit would apply, we reserve the right to limit the amount of any premiums that you pay, unless the insured person provides us with evidence of insurability satisfactory to us.

If your premium payments exceed certain other amounts specified under the Code, your policy will become a “modified endowment contract,” which may subject you to additional taxes and penalties on any distributions from your policy. See “Tax information” in this prospectus. We may return any premium payments that would cause your policy to become a modified endowment contract if we have not received a satisfactory modified endowment contract acknowledgment from you.

You can ask your financial professional to provide you with an illustration of policy benefits that shows you the amount of premiums you can pay, based on various assumptions, without exceeding applicable tax law limits. The tax law limits can change as a result of certain changes you make to your policy. For example, a reduction in the face amount of your policy may reduce the amount of premiums that you can pay and may impact whether your policy is a modified endowment contract.

You should discuss possible limitations on policy premiums with your financial professional and tax advisor before purchasing the policy.

Planned periodic premiums.  Page 3 of your policy will specify a “planned periodic premium.” This is the amount that you request us to bill you. However, payment of these or any other specific amounts of premiums is not mandatory. You need to pay only the amount of premiums (if any) necessary to keep your policy from lapsing and terminating as discussed below.

Premium Payment Plans

The following premium payment plans are available:

— Direct billing is available on monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual modes. The Company will send premium reminder notices approximately 25 days before the due date based on the mode chosen, i.e., monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually.

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— Military allotment billing is available on monthly mode only.

— Salary allotment is available on monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual modes. The minimum case requirement for new salary allotment billing units is five lives.

— Systematic billing is available on monthly and quarterly modes. Under systematic billing, the policy owner may specify the day of the month on which the premiums should be deducted from their account (draft date).

The premium payment plan and/or mode may be changed.

The minimum amount of premiums you must pay

Policy “lapse” and termination.  Your policy will lapse (also referred to in your policy as “default”) if your “net policy account value” is not enough to pay your policy’s monthly charges due to insufficient premium payments, poor investment performance, withdrawals, policy charges, unpaid loans or loan interest, when due unless:

• you have paid sufficient premiums to keep the no-lapse guarantee in effect, the no-lapse guarantee is still in effect and any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest does not exceed the policy account value (see “You can guarantee that your policy will not terminate before a certain date” below); or

• you satisfy the requirements of the Policy Continuation Rider including that there is sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge (see “Policy Continuation Rider” in “Other benefits available under the policy”).

We will mail a notice to you at your last known address if your policy lapses. You will have a 61-day grace period to pay at least an amount prescribed in your policy which would be enough to keep your policy in force for approximately three months (without regard to investment performance). You may not make any transfers or request any other policy changes during a grace period. If we receive the requested amount before the end of the grace period, it will be treated as a loan repayment to the extent it is less than or equal to any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest. The remainder of the payment, if any, will be treated as a premium payment. If your policy account value is still insufficient to cover total monthly deductions, we will send a written notice that a new 61-day grace period has begun and request an additional payment. If we do not receive your payment by the end of the grace period, your policy (and all riders to the policy) will terminate without value and all coverage under your policy will cease. We will mail an additional notice to you if your policy terminates.

If the insured person dies during a grace period, we will pay the death benefit, less any overdue charges (but not more than the guarantee premium amount required to keep the no-lapse guarantee in effect), policy loans or liens and accrued loan or lien interest, to the beneficiary you have named.

Your policy will terminate if you don’t pay enough premiums (i) to pay the charges we deduct, or (ii) to maintain the no-lapse guarantee that can keep your policy from terminating. However, we will first send you a notice and give you the opportunity to pay any shortfall. For more information on the no-lapse guarantee see “Other benefits available under the policy” in this prospectus.

You may owe taxes if your policy terminates while you have a loan outstanding, even though you receive no additional money from your policy at that time. See “Tax information,” in this prospectus.

Restoring a terminated policy.  To have your policy “restored” (put back in force), you must apply within three years after the date of termination. You must also (i) present evidence of insurability satisfactory to us and (ii) pay at least the amount of premium that we require. The amount of payment will not be more than an amount sufficient to cover total monthly deductions for 3 months, calculated from the effective date of restoration, and the premium charge. We will determine the amount of this required payment as if no interest or investment performance were credited to or charged against your policy account. Your policy contains additional information about the minimum amount of this premium and about the values and terms of the policy after it is restored and the effective date of such restoration. You may only restore your policy if it has terminated without value. You may not restore a policy that was given up for its net cash surrender value. Any no-lapse guarantee also terminates and cannot be restored after the policy terminates.

You can guarantee that your policy will not terminate before a certain date

We offer a guarantee against policy lapse that depends on your having paid specified amounts of premiums. This is our No-Lapse Guarantee rider and you can read more about it in “Other benefits available under the policy” in this prospectus. We offer the No-Lapse Guarantee rider free of charge.

You can receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider.

Subject to our insurance underwriting guidelines and availability in your state, your policy will automatically include our Living Benefits Rider if you apply for a face amount of at least $100,000. This feature enables you to receive a portion (generally the lesser of 75% or $250,000) of the policy’s death benefit (excluding death benefits payable under certain other policy riders), if the insured person has a terminal illness (as defined in the rider). The maximum aggregate amount of payments that will be paid under this Living Benefits Rider for all policies issued by the Company or an affiliate company on the life of the same insured person is $500,000. We make no additional charge for the rider, but we will deduct a one-time administrative charge of up to $250 from any living benefit we pay.

If you tell us that you do not wish to have the Living Benefits Rider added at issue, but you later ask to add it, there will be

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a $100 administrative charge. Also, we will need to evaluate the insurance risk at that time, and we may decline to issue the rider.

For more information about that rider, see “Your option to receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider” under ”Other benefits available under the policy” in this prospectus.

Investment options within your policy

Except as set forth in the next paragraph, we will initially put all unloaned amounts which you have allocated to variable investment options into such options on the later of the business day that we receive the full minimum initial premium at our Administrative Office or the register date of your policy (the “Investment Start Date”). Before this date, your initial premium will be held in a non-interest bearing account. See “policy issuance” in “More information about procedures that apply to your policy” in this prospectus.

In those states that require us to return your premium without adjustment for investment performance within a certain number of days (see “Your right to cancel within a certain number of days,” in this prospectus), we will initially put all amounts which you have allocated to the variable investment options into our EQ/Money Market investment option as of the later of the Investment Start Date and the issue date for 20 calendar days (the “Money Market Lock-in Period”). On the first business day following the Money Market Lock-in Period, we will reallocate that investment in accordance with your premium allocation instructions then in effect. For policies issued in these states, the “Allocation Date” is the first business day following the Money Market Lock-in Period. For all other policies, the Allocation Date is the Investment Start Date, and there is no automatic initial allocation to the EQ/Money Market investment option.

You provide such allocation instructions in your application to purchase a policy. You can change the premium allocation percentages at any time, but this will not affect any prior allocations. The allocation percentages that you specify must always be in whole numbers and total exactly 100%.

The policy is between you and the Company. The policy is not an investment advisory account, and the Company is not providing any investment advice or managing the allocations under your policy. In the absence of a specific written arrangement to the contrary, you, as the owner of the policy, have the sole authority to make investment allocations and other decisions under the policy. If your policy is sold by a financial professional of Equitable Advisors, your financial professional is acting as a broker-dealer registered representative, and is not authorized to act as an investment advisor or to manage the allocations under your policy. If your financial professional is a registered representative with a broker-dealer other than Equitable Advisors, you should speak with him/her regarding any different arrangements that may apply.

You can choose among variable investment options.

Variable investment options.  The available variable investment options are listed in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this prospectus. (Your policy and other supplemental materials may refer to these as “Investment Funds.”) The investment results you will achieve in any one of these options will depend on the investment performance of the corresponding Portfolio that shares the same name as that option. That Portfolio follows investment practices, policies and objectives that are appropriate to the variable investment option you have chosen. You can lose your principal when investing in the variable investment options. In periods of poor market performance, the net return, after charges and expenses, may result in negative yields, including for the EQ/Money Market variable investment option.

The advisers who make the investment decisions for each Portfolio are set forth in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy.”

You will find other important information about each Portfolio in the separate prospectuses for each Trust, including a comprehensive discussion of the risks of investing in each Portfolio. To obtain copies of Trust prospectuses, you may call 1-877-522-5035 or go to www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162723. We may add or delete variable investment options or Portfolios at any time.

Guaranteed interest option.  You can also allocate some or all of your policy’s value to our guaranteed interest option. We, in turn, invest such amounts as part of our general assets. Periodically, we declare a fixed rate of interest (1.0% minimum) on amounts that you allocate to our guaranteed interest option. We credit and compound the interest daily at an effective annual rate that equals the declared rate. The rates we are declaring on existing policies at any time may differ from the rates we are then declaring for newly issued policies. The guaranteed interest option is part of what your policy and other supplemental material may refer to as the “Guaranteed Interest Account.”

We will pay at least 1.0% annual interest on our guaranteed interest option.

Market Stabilizer Option^®.  The MSO rider, if available under your policy, provides you with the opportunity to earn interest that we will credit based in part on the performance of the S&P 500 Price Return Index excluding dividends, over approximately a one year period. The S&P 500 Price Return Index includes 500 companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy, capturing 75% coverage of U.S. equities. The S&P 500 Price Return Index does not include dividends declared by any of the companies included in this Index. Any amount that you decide to invest in the MSO is allocated to a “Segment”, each of which has a specific start date and a limited duration. On the final day of the Segment, the index-linked return associated with that Segment will be applied to your Segment Account Value (as

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defined in the MSO Prospectus), and may be positive, zero or negative. Please be aware that the possibility of a negative return on this investment at the end of a Segment Term could result in a significant loss of principal and previously credited interest. Please see the Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus for more information.

Your policy account value

As set forth in this prospectus, we deduct certain charges from each premium payment you make. We credit the rest of each premium payment to your “policy account value.” You instruct us to allocate your policy account value to one or more of the policy’s investment options indicated in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this prospectus or to the MSO or the GIO.

Your “policy account value” is the total of (i) your amounts in our variable investment options, (ii) your amounts in our guaranteed interest option and (iii) any amounts that we are holding to secure policy loans that you have taken (including any interest on those amounts which has not yet been allocated to the investment options). See “Borrowing from your policy” in this prospectus. The account value of any policy amounts transferred to the Market Stabilizer Option^® (“MSO”) is also included in your policy account value, and is calculated as described in the separate Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus.

Your policy and other supplemental material may refer to the account that holds the amounts in (ii) and (iii) above as our “Guaranteed Interest Account.”

Your “net policy account value” is the total of (i) your amounts in our variable investment options, (ii) your amounts in our guaranteed interest option and (iii) any interest credited on loaned amounts, minus any interest accrued on outstanding loans and minus any “restricted” amounts that we hold in the guaranteed interest option as a result of any payment received under a living benefits rider. The account value of any policy amounts transferred to the Market Stabilizer Option^® is also included in your net policy account value, and is calculated as described in the separate Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus.

Your policy account value is subject to certain charges discussed in “More information about policy charges” in this prospectus.

Your policy account value will be credited with the same returns as are achieved by the Portfolios that you select and interest credited on amounts in the guaranteed interest option, and is reduced by the amount of charges we deduct under the policy.

Your policy’s value in our variable investment options.  We invest the policy account value that you have allocated to any variable investment option in shares of the corresponding Portfolio. Your value in each variable investment option is measured by “units.”

The number of your units in any variable investment option does not change, absent an event or transaction under your policy that involves moving assets into or out of that option. Whenever any amount is withdrawn or otherwise deducted from one of your policy’s variable investment options, we “redeem” (cancel) the number of units that has a value equal to that amount. This can happen, for example, when all or a portion of monthly deductions and transaction-based charges are allocated to that option, or when loans, transfers, withdrawals and surrenders are made from that option. Similarly, you “purchase” additional units having the same value as the amount of any premium (after deduction of any premium charge), loan repayment, or transfer that you allocate to that option.

The value of each unit will increase or decrease each business day, as though you had invested in the corresponding Portfolio’s shares directly (and reinvested all dividends and distributions from the Portfolio in additional Portfolio shares). On any day, your value in any variable investment option equals the number of units credited to your policy under that option, multiplied by that day’s value for one such unit. The mortality and expense risk charge mentioned in this prospectus is calculated as a percentage of the value you have in the variable investment options and MSO, if applicable, and deducted monthly from your policy account based on your deduction allocations. For more information on how we allocate charges, see “How we allocate charges among your investment options” in this prospectus.

Your policy’s value in our guaranteed interest option.  Your policy’s value in our guaranteed interest option includes: (i) any amounts that have been allocated to that option, based on your request, and (ii) any “restricted” amounts that we hold in that option as a result of your election to receive a living benefit. See “Your option to receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider,” in this prospectus. We credit all of such amounts with interest at rates we declare from time to time. We guarantee that these rates will not be less than a 1.0% effective annual rate.

Amounts may be allocated to or removed from your policy’s value in our guaranteed interest option for the same purposes as described in this prospectus for the variable investment options. We credit your policy with a number of dollars in that option that equals any amount that is being allocated to it. Similarly, if amounts are being removed from your guaranteed interest option for any reason, we reduce the amount you have credited to that option on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

Customer loyalty credit

We provide a customer loyalty credit for policies that have been in force for more than a specified number of years depending on your age at policy issuance. If eligible, this credit is added to your policy account value each month on your monthly anniversary date. The dollar amount of the credit is a percentage of your unloaned policy account value, which is your policy account value less any value we are holding as collateral for any policy loans, as of your monthly anniversary date. This credit is not guaranteed.

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The credit is calculated as an annual percentage of your unloaned policy account value that varies depending on (i) the issue age of the insured, (ii) the policy duration and (iii) the cumulative amount of premiums you have paid to date (less any withdrawals).

To qualify for the customer loyalty credit, a certain number of target premiums must be paid during the applicable time period based on your issue age, as provided in the table below.

If you qualify for the customer loyalty credit, the starting date and currently applicable annual percentage rate that we will use to determine the total amount of your credit are shown below:

Issue Age	Qualification Requirements	Policy Duration	Credit Percentage
18-29	5 target premiums by the end of the first 7 policy years or 2.25 target premiums by the end of the first 2 policy years	policy years 15-20 policy years 21 and later	0.45% 0.25%
30-39	5 target premiums by the end of the first 7 policy years or 2.25 target premiums by the end of the first 2 policy years	policy years 10-20 policy years 21 and later	0.45% 0.25%
40-49	4.5 target premiums by the end of the first 7 policy years or 2.25 target premiums by the end of the first 2 policy years	policy years 10-20 policy years 21 and later	0.45% 0.25%
50-65	3 target premiums by the end of the first 5 policy years or 2.25 target premiums by the end of the first 2 policy years	policy years 6-20 policy years 21 and later	0.45% 0.25%

The “target premium” is actuarially determined for each policy, based on that policy’s characteristics, and the policy’s face amount. The illustrations of policy Benefits that your financial professional will provide will contain more information regarding the amount of premiums that must be paid in order for the percentage credit to be applicable to your policy.

Because the policy is being first offered in 2021, no customer loyalty credit has yet been made to the policy.

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5. Transferring your money among our investment options

Transfers you can make

You can transfer among our variable investment options and into our guaranteed interest option. However, certain restrictions may apply.

After your policy’s Allocation Date, you can transfer amounts from one investment option to another subject to certain restrictions discussed below. Currently, the total of all transfers you make on the same day must be at least $500; except that you may transfer your entire balance in an investment option, even if it is less than $500. We reserve the right to restrict transfers among variable investment options as described in your policy, including limitations on the number, frequency, or dollar amount of transfers.

Please see “Investment options within your policy” in “Payment of premiums and determining your policy’s value” for more information about your role in managing your allocations.

Restrictions on transfers into the guaranteed interest option.  After the first two policy years and if the attained age of the insured is less than 65, we may limit transfers you can make into the GIO if the current (non-guaranteed) interest crediting rate on the GIO is equal to the guaranteed minimum interest crediting rate of 1.0% (annual rate). In this instance, the maximum amount that may be transferred from the variable investment options to the unloaned GIO in a policy year is the greater of: (a) $500 and (b) 25% of the total amount in the variable investment options at the beginning of the policy year. If this amount is exceeded in any policy year during which the transfer limit becomes effective, additional transfers into the unloaned GIO will not be permitted during that policy year while the limit remains in effect.

Current unrestricted transfers out of the guaranteed interest option.  We are relaxing our policy rules so that, beginning on the business day after the Allocation Date and thereafter, you may transfer any amount of unloaned policy account value out of the guaranteed interest option to any other investment option until further notice. If we decide to change our limitations on transfers out of the guaranteed interest option, we will provide you with notice of at least 30 days.

See the “How to make transfers” section below on how you can request a transfer.

Please note that the ability to make unresticted transfers from the guaranteed interest option does not apply to any amounts that we are holding as collateral for a policy loan or as “restricted” amounts as a result of your election to receive a living benefit, if available under your policy.

Transfers into and out of the MSO

If you elect to transfer account value to the MSO, there must be sufficient funds remaining in the guaranteed interest

option to cover the Charge Reserve Amount (as defined in the MSO Prospectus). There are also additional restrictions that may apply. For more information about transfers into and out of the MSO, see “Transfers” in the “Description of the Market Stabilizer Option” section of the MSO Prospectus.

Disruptive transfer activity.  We reserve the right to limit access to the services described below if we determine that you are engaged in a disruptive transfer activity, such as “market timing” (see “Disruptive transfer activity” in “More information about other matters”).

How to make transfers

In general, transfers take effect on the date the request is received. However, any written, telephone, Internet or facsimile transaction requests received after 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) take effect the next business day.

Internet transfers.  Generally, you can make transfers over the Internet if you are the owner of the policy. You may do this by visiting our www.equitable.com website and registering for online account access. This service may not always be available. The restrictions relating to transfers are described below.

Online transfers.  You can make online transfers by following one of two procedures:

• For individually owned policies for which you are the owner, by logging onto our website, described under “By Internet” in “How to reach us” in this prospectus; or

• For corporation and trust owned policies, we require a special authorization form to obtain access. The form is available on our website www.equitable.com or by contacting our Administrative Office.

Telephone Transfers.  Telephone transfers can be made by calling 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.); facsimile transfers can be submitted to 1-855-268-6378.

For more information, see “Telephone and Internet requests” in this prospectus. We allow only one request for transfers each day (although that request can cover multiple transfers). If you are unable to reach us via our website, you should send a written transfer request to our Administrative Office.

Transfers through our Administrative Office.  You may submit a written request for a transfer to our Administrative Office. We require a written request for jointly owned policies.

Our automatic transfer service

We offer an automatic transfer service. This service allows you to gradually allocate amounts to the variable investment

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options by periodically transferring approximately the same dollar amount to the variable investment options you select. This will cause you to purchase more units if the unit’s value is low, and fewer units if the unit’s value is high. Therefore, you may achieve a lower average cost per unit over the long-term.

Using the automatic transfer service does not guarantee that you will earn a profit or be protected against losses.

Our automatic transfer service (also referred to as our “dollar cost averaging service”) enables you to make automatic monthly transfers from the EQ/Money Market option to our other variable investment options. You may elect the automatic transfer service with your policy application or at any later time (provided you are not using the asset rebalancing service described below). At least $5,000 must be allocated to the EQ/Money Market option to begin using the automatic transfer service. You can choose up to eight other variable investment options to receive the automatic transfers, but each transfer to each option must be at least $50.

This service terminates when the EQ/Money Market option is depleted. You can also cancel the automatic transfer service at any time by sending a written request to our Administrative Office. You may not simultaneously participate in the asset rebalancing service and the automatic transfer service.

We will not deduct a transfer charge for any transfer made in connection with our automatic transfer service.

Our asset rebalancing service

You may wish us to periodically redistribute the amounts you have in our variable investment options so that the relative amount of your policy account value in each variable option is restored to an asset allocation that you select. You can accomplish this automatically through our asset rebalancing service. The rebalancing may be at quarterly, semiannual, or annual intervals.

You may specify asset allocation percentages for all available variable investment options up to a maximum of 50. The allocation percentage you specify for each variable investment option selected must be at least 2% (whole percentages only) of the total value you hold under the variable investment options, and the sum of the percentages must equal 100%. You may not simultaneously participate in the asset rebalancing service and the automatic transfer service (discussed above).

You may request the asset rebalancing service in your policy application or at any later time by completing our enrollment form. At any time, you may also terminate the rebalancing program or make changes to your allocations under the program. Once enrolled in the rebalancing service, it will remain in effect until you instruct us in writing to terminate the service. Requesting an investment option transfer while enrolled in our asset rebalancing service will not automatically change your allocation instructions for

rebalancing your account value. This means that upon the next scheduled rebalancing, we will transfer amounts among your investment options pursuant to the allocation instructions previously on file for your rebalancing service. Changes to your allocation instructions for the rebalancing service (or termination of your enrollment in the service) must be in writing and sent to our Administrative Office.

We will not deduct a transfer charge for any transfer made in connection with our asset rebalancing service. Certain investment options, such as the guaranteed interest option, are not available investment options with the asset rebalancing service.

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6. Death benefits and accessing your money

About your life insurance benefit

As long as your incontestable policy is in force, we will pay the death benefit to your beneficiary or beneficiaries once we receive at our Administrative Office satisfactory proof of the Insured’s death. See your policy for more information on policy incontestability. The death benefit is determined as of the as of the date of death and generally paid within 7 days after proof of death and any other required documents are received. For information on the commencement of insurance coverage, please see “policy issuance” under “More information about procedures that apply to your policy” in this prospectus.

Your policy’s face amount.  In your application to buy the policy, you tell us how much insurance coverage you want on the life of the insured person. We call this the “face amount” of the base policy. Generally, $100,000 is the minimum amount of coverage you can request. If you have elected the Charitable Legacy Rider, the minimum face amount is $1 million.

You can decrease your insurance coverage

You may request a decrease in your policy’s face amount any time after the second year of your policy but before the policy year in which the insured person reaches age 121. The requested decrease must be at least $10,000. Please refer to “Tax information” for certain possible tax consequences and limitations of changing the face amount of your policy.

We can refuse or limit any requested decrease. We will not approve any decrease if your policy is in a grace period.

Certain policy changes, including decreases in your insurance coverage, may also affect the guarantee premiums under the policy.

The following additional conditions also apply:

Face amount decreases.  You may not reduce the face amount below the minimum stated in your policy. Nor will we permit a decrease that would cause your policy to fail the Internal Revenue Code’s definition of life insurance. Guarantee premiums, as well as our monthly deductions for the cost of insurance coverage, will generally decrease from the time you reduce the face amount.

If you reduce the face amount during the first 10 years of your policy, we will deduct all or part of the remaining surrender charge from your policy account value. Assuming you have not previously changed the face amount, the amount of the surrender charge we will deduct will be determined by dividing the amount of the decrease by the initial face amount and multiplying that fraction by the total amount of surrender charge that still remains applicable to your policy. We deduct the charge from the same investment options as if it were part of a regular monthly deduction under your policy.

In some cases, we may have to make a distribution to you from your policy at the time we decrease your policy’s face amount. This may be necessary in order to preserve your policy’s status as life insurance under the Internal Revenue Code. We may also be required to make such distribution to you in the future on account of a prior decrease in face amount. The distribution may be taxable.

If the insured person dies, we pay a life insurance benefit to the “beneficiary” you have named once we have received satisfactory proof of the insured’s death at our Administrative Office.

Your policy’s “death benefit” option.  The basic amount (or “benefit”) we will pay if the insured person dies is:

The policy’s face amount on the date of the insured person’s death. The amount of this death benefit doesn’t change over time, unless you take any action that changes the policy face amount.

Alternative higher death benefit in certain cases

Your policy is designed to always provide a minimum level of insurance protection relative to your policy account value, in part to meet the Code’s definition of “life insurance.”

We will automatically pay an alternative death benefit if it is higher than the standard death benefit.

The alternative death benefit is computed by multiplying your policy account value on the insured person’s date of death by a percentage specified in your policy. At ages greater than 99, this percentage is equal to 101%. At ages less than 100, this percentage is equal to the reciprocal of the net single premium per dollar of insurance calculated using an interest rate to ensure the contract meets the definition of life insurance as defined in section 7702 of the Code and mortality charges based upon the 2017 Commissioner’s Standard Ordinary Mortality Tables, and varies based upon the insured person’s age, sex and risk class. The death benefit is designed to be greater than the amount necessary to ensure that the policy’s cash surrender value does not at any time exceed the net single premium needed to fund future policy benefits under the contract, with all such terms as defined in section 7702 of the Code.

For example, under the cash value accumulation test, if the insured is age 65 at the time of death and has a policy with the face amount of $100,000, an account value of $85,000, and a death benefit percentage of 144.0%, then the death benefit is the alternative death benefit of $122,400. For more details regarding how we calculate the death benefit, please see Appendix: “Calculating the death benefit” to this prospectus.

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These higher alternative death benefits expose us to greater insurance risk than the standard death benefit. Because the cost of insurance charges we make under your policy are based in part on the amount of our risk, you will pay more cost of insurance charges for any periods during which a higher alternative death benefit is the operative one.

The operative period for the higher alternative death benefit is generally determined in connection with the requirements of the Code. The calculation of the death benefit is built into the monthly calculation of the cost of insurance charge, which is based on the net amount at risk. The need for the higher alternative death benefit is assessed on each monthly anniversary date, and on the death of the insured. Each policy owner receives an annual statement showing various policy values.

The annual statement shows the death benefit amount as of the policy anniversary, and that amount would reflect the alternative higher death benefit amount, if applicable at that time. This annual statement also reflects the monthly cost of insurance charge for the policy year, reflecting a higher net amount at risk in those months when the higher alternative death benefit is in effect.

Other adjustments to death benefit.  We will increase the death benefit proceeds by the amount of any other benefits we owe upon the insured person’s death under any optional riders which are in effect.

We will reduce the death benefit proceeds by the amount of any outstanding policy loan and unpaid loan interest, as well as any amount of monthly charges under the policy that remain unpaid because the insured person died during a grace period. We also reduce the death benefit if we have already paid part of it under a Living Benefits Rider. We reduce it by the amount of the living benefits payment plus interest. See “Your option to receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider” in this prospectus.

Your options for receiving policy proceeds

Beneficiary of death benefit.  You designate your policy’s beneficiary in your policy application. You can change the beneficiary at any other time during the insured person’s life. If no beneficiary is living when the insured person dies, we will pay the death benefit proceeds in equal shares to the insured person’s surviving children. If there are no surviving children, we will instead pay the insured person’s estate.

Payment of death benefit.  We will pay any death benefit in a single sum. If the beneficiary is a natural person (i.e., not an entity such as a corporation) and so elects, death benefit proceeds can be paid through the “Access Account”, which is a draft account that works in certain respects like an interest-bearing checking account. In that case, we will send the beneficiary a draftbook, and the beneficiary will have immediate access to the proceeds by writing a draft for all or part of the amount of the death benefit proceeds. The Company will retain the funds until a draft is presented for payment. Interest on the Access Account is earned from the

date we establish the account until the account is closed by your beneficiary or by us if the account balance falls below the minimum balance requirement, which is currently $1,000. The Access Account is part of the Company’s general account and is subject to the claims of our creditors. We will receive any investment earnings during the period such amounts remain in the general account. The Access Account is not a bank account or a checking account and it is not insured by the FDIC. Funds held by insurance companies in the general account are guaranteed by the respective state guaranty association.

A beneficiary residing outside the U.S., however, cannot elect the Access Account. If the beneficiary is a trust that has two or fewer trustees, death benefit proceeds can be paid through the Access Account.

If a financial professional has assisted the beneficiary in preparing the documents that are required for payment of the death benefit and the beneficiary so elects, we will send the Access Account checkbook or check to the financial professional within the periods specified for death benefit payments under “When we pay policy proceeds,” in this prospectus. Our financial professionals will take reasonable steps to arrange for prompt delivery to the beneficiary.

Accessing your money

You can access the money in your policy in different ways. You may borrow up to 90% of the cash surrender value, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest before the policy year in which the insured reaches age 75 (100% thereafter). However, the amount you can borrow will be reduced by any amount that we hold on a “restricted” basis following your receipt of a terminal illness living benefits payment, as well as by any other loans and accrued loan interest you have outstanding. We will charge interest on the amount of the loan. See “Borrowing from your policy” in this prospectus for more information.

You can also make a partial withdrawal of $500 or more of your net cash surrender value at any time after the first year of your policy and before the policy anniversary nearest to the insured’s 121st birthday. See “Making withdrawals from your policy” in this prospectus for more information.

Finally, you can surrender (turn in) your policy for its net cash surrender value at any time. You may have to pay surrender charges if you surrender your policy. See “Surrendering your policy for its net cash surrender value” in this prospectus.

Policy loans, partial withdrawals and policy surrender may have tax consequences. See “Tax information” in this prospectus for the tax treatment of the various ways in which you can access your money.

Automated Income Service

On or after the 10th policy anniversary, the automated income service permits a policy owner to request a start and end date for income payments on a periodic basis. Income

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payments can be made on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis. The income payment request can be made in the form of a percentage of the policy’s net cash surrender value or a specific dollar amount. Amounts withdrawn under the automated income service will be treated as a partial withdrawal up to the amount of your basis in the policy and then will be treated as a loan, if necessary, up to a maximum of 90% of the policy’s net cash surrender value. The income payments will continue until you instruct us to stop them or 90% of the policy’s net cash surrender value has been reached. See “Making withdrawals from your policy” below for more information about partial withdrawals and “Borrowing from your policy” below for more information on policy loans.

Borrowing from your policy

You may borrow up to 90% of the cash surrender value, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest before the policy year in which the insured reaches age 75 (100% thereafter). In your policy, the cash surrender value is equal to the difference between your policy account value and any surrender charges that are in effect under your policy. However, the amount you can borrow will be reduced by any amount that we hold on a “restricted” basis following your receipt of a terminal illness living benefits payment, as well as by any other loans (and accrued loan interest) you have outstanding. See “Your option to receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider” below. The minimum loan amount generally is $500.

You can use policy loans to obtain funds from your policy without surrender charges or, in most cases, paying current income taxes. However, the borrowed amount is no longer credited with the investment results of any of our investment options under the policy.

When you take a policy loan, we remove an amount equal to the loan from one or more of your investment options and hold it as collateral for the loan’s repayment. We hold this loan collateral under the same terms and conditions as apply to amounts supporting our guaranteed interest option, with several exceptions:

• you cannot make transfers or withdrawals of the collateral;

• we expect to credit different rates of interest to loan collateral than we credit under our guaranteed interest option;

• we do not count the collateral when we compute our customer loyalty credit; and

• the collateral is not available to pay policy charges.

When you request a loan, you should tell us how much of the loan collateral you wish to have taken from any amounts you have in each of our investment options. If you do not give us directions (or if we are making the loan automatically to cover unpaid loan interest), we will take the loan from your investment options in the same proportion as we are taking monthly deductions for charges. If that is not possible, we will take the loan from your investment options in proportion to your value in each.

Loan interest we charge.  The interest we charge on a policy loan accrues daily at an adjustable interest rate. We determine the rate at the beginning of each year of your policy and that rate applies to all policy loans that are outstanding at any time during the year. The maximum rate is the greater of (a) 2.0% or (b) the “Monthly Average Corporate” yield published in Moody’s Corporate Bond Yield Averages for the month that ends two months before the interest rate is set. (If that average is no longer published, we will use another average, as the policy provides.) Currently, the loan interest rate is 2.0% for the first ten policy years and 1.0% thereafter. We will notify you of the current loan interest rate when you apply for a loan and annually on the annual report, and will notify you in advance of any rate increase.

Loan interest payments are due on each policy anniversary. If not paid when due, we automatically add the interest as a new policy loan.

Interest that we credit on loan collateral.  Under our current rules, the annual interest rate we credit on your loan collateral during any of your policy’s first ten years will be 1% less than the rate we are then charging you for policy loan interest, and, beginning in the policy’s 11th year, equal to the loan interest rate. The elimination of the rate differential is not guaranteed, however. Accordingly, we have discretion to increase the rate differential for any period, including under policies that are already in force (and may have an outstanding loan). We do guarantee that the annual rate of interest credited on your loan collateral will never be less than 1.0% and that the differential will not exceed 1%.

We credit interest on your loan collateral daily. On each anniversary of your policy (or when your policy loan is fully repaid) we transfer that interest to your policy’s investment options in the same proportions as if it were a premium payment.

Effects of a policy loan.  If not repaid, the aggregate amount of the outstanding loan and any accrued loan interest will reduce your cash surrender value and your life insurance benefit that might otherwise be payable. We will deduct any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest from your policy’s proceeds if you do not pay it back. Also, a loan can reduce the length of time that your insurance remains in force, because the amount we set aside as loan collateral cannot be used to pay charges as they become due.

A policy loan, repaid or not, has a permanent effect on your cash surrender value and the death benefit. This results because the investment results of each investment option apply only to the amounts remaining in such investment options. The longer the loan is outstanding, the greater the effect on your cash surrender value is likely to be.

If your policy’s no-lapse guarantee is in effect and is important to you, you should ensure that the amount of any outstanding policy loans and accrued loan interest does not exceed your policy account value. The no-lapse guarantee will terminate if the amount of your outstanding policy loans and accrued loan interest is greater than your policy account value.

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Even if a loan is not taxable when made, it may later become taxable, for example, upon termination or surrender. A policy loan can affect your policy account value and death benefit, even if you have repaid the loan. See “Tax information” below for a discussion of the tax consequences of a policy loan.

Paying off your loan.  You can repay all or part of your loan at any time. We normally assume that payments you send us are premium payments unless the policy has lapsed and the payment is received during the 61-day grace period. See “policy ‘lapse’ and termination” in “The minimum amount of premiums you must pay” under “More information about policy charges” for more information. Therefore, you must submit instructions with your payment indicating that it is a loan repayment. If you send us more than all of the loan principal and interest you owe, we will treat the excess as a premium payment.

When you send us a loan repayment, we will transfer an amount equal to such repayment from your loan collateral back to the investment options under your policy. First we will restore any amounts that, before being designated as loan collateral, had been in the guaranteed interest option under your policy. We will allocate any additional repayments among the investment options as you instruct; or, if you don’t instruct us, in the same proportion as if they were premium payments.

Any portion of the loan repayment that we cannot allocate to the guaranteed interest option will be allocated to the variable investment options in proportion to any amounts that you specified for that particular loan repayment. If you did not specify, we will allocate that portion of the loan repayment in proportion to the premium allocation percentages for the variable investment options on record.

Borrowing from your policy when you allocated to the MSO. If you have allocated policy amounts to the MSO and plan to take a loan from your policy, significantly different procedures and additional restrictions may apply. Please see “Loans” in the “Description of the Market Stabilizer Option” section of the MSO Prospectus for more information.

Making withdrawals from your policy

You may make a partial withdrawal of your net cash surrender value at any time after the first year of your policy and before the policy anniversary nearest to the insured’s attained age 121. The request must be for at least $500, however, and we have discretion to decline any request. If you do not tell us from which investment options you wish us to take the withdrawal, we will use the same allocation that then applies for the monthly deductions we make for charges; and, if that is not possible, we will take the withdrawal from all of your investment options in proportion to your value in each. We will not deduct a charge for making a partial withdrawal.

You can withdraw all or part of your policy’s net cash surrender value, although you may incur tax consequences by doing so.

Effect of partial withdrawals on insurance coverage.  A partial withdrawal will result in a reduction in the cash surrender value and in your policy account value equal to the amount withdrawn as well as a reduction in your death benefit.

The death benefit after the withdrawal will be determined as described in “About your life insurance benefit” and “Alternative higher death benefit in certain cases” in this section, based on the policy account value and the base policy face amount after the withdrawal.

If the standard death benefit is higher than the alternative death benefit, a partial withdrawal will result in a dollar-for-dollar automatic reduction in the policy’s face amount (and, hence, an equal reduction in the death benefit). If the alternative death benefit is higher than the standard death benefit and if the death benefit minus the amount to be withdrawn is not lower than the standard death benefit, the policy’s face amount will not be reduced but the policy’s death benefit will be reduced by an amount greater than the amount to be withdrawn. If the alternative death benefit is higher than the standard death benefit and if the standard death benefit is higher than the death benefit minus the amount to be withdrawn, then the policy’s face amount will be reduced to an amount equal to the death benefit minus the amount to be withdrawn and the death benefit will be reduced by an amount greater than the amount to be withdrawn.

A partial withdrawal reduces the amount of your premium payments that counts toward maintaining the no-lapse guarantee. A partial withdrawal may increase the chance that your policy could lapse because of insufficient value to pay policy charges as they fall due or failure to pass the guarantee premium test for the no-lapse guarantee. There will be no proportionate surrender charge due to a decrease in base policy face amount resulting from a partial withdrawal.

We will not permit a partial withdrawal that would reduce the face amount below the minimum stated in your policy, or that would cause the policy to no longer be treated as life insurance for federal income tax purposes.

You should refer to “Tax information” below, for information about possible tax consequences of partial withdrawals and any associated reduction in policy benefits.

Making withdrawals from your policy if you have allocated to the MSO If you have allocated policy amounts to the MSO and plan to take a withdrawal from your policy, significantly different procedures and additional restrictions may apply. Please see “Withdrawals” in the “Description of the Market Stabilizer Option” section of the MSO Prospectus for more information.

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Surrendering your policy for its net cash surrender value

Upon written request satisfactory to us, you can surrender (give us back) your policy for its “net cash surrender value” at any time. The net cash surrender value equals your policy account value, minus any outstanding loan and unpaid loan interest, minus any amount of your policy account value that is “restricted” as a result of previously distributed terminal illness living benefits, and minus any surrender charge that then remains applicable. The surrender charge is described in “Charges and expenses you will pay” in this prospectus.

Surrendering your policy if you have allocated to the MSO If you have allocated policy amounts to the MSO and plan to surrender your policy, significantly different procedures and additional restrictions may apply. Please see “Cash Surrender Value, Net Cash Surrender Value and Loan Value” in the “Description of the Market Stabilizer Option^®” section of the MSO Prospectus for more information.

Please refer to “Tax information” below for the possible tax consequences of surrendering your policy.

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7. Tax information

This discussion is based on current federal income tax law and interpretations. It assumes that the policy owner is a natural person who is a U.S. citizen and resident and has an insurable interest in the insured. The tax effects on corporate taxpayers, non-U.S. residents or non-U.S. citizens may be different. This discussion is general in nature, and should not be considered tax advice, for which you should consult a qualified tax advisor.

Basic income tax treatment for you and your beneficiary

The policy will be treated as “life insurance” for federal income tax purposes (a) if it meets the definition of life insurance under Section 7702 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) and (b) as long as the investments made by the underlying Portfolios satisfy certain investment diversification requirements under Section 817(h) of the Code. The following discussion assumes that the policies meet these requirements and, therefore, that generally:

• the death benefit received by the beneficiary under your policy will not be subject to federal income tax; and

• increases in your policy account value as a result of interest or investment experience will not be subject to federal income tax, unless and until there is a distribution from your policy, such as a surrender, a partial withdrawal, loan or a payment to you.

The IRS, however, could disagree with our position such that certain tax consequences could be other than as described. If it is subsequently determined that a policy does not satisfy the applicable requirements, we may take appropriate steps to bring the policy into compliance with such requirements and we reserve the right to restrict policy transactions in order to do so. There may also be different tax consequences if you assign your policy, transfer an interest therein or designate a new owner. See “Assigning your policy” in this prospectus. See also special rules below for “Business and employer owned policies,” and for the discussion of insurable interest under “Other information.”

Tax treatment of distributions to you (loans, partial withdrawals, and full surrender)

The federal income tax consequences of a distribution from your policy depend on whether your policy is a “modified endowment contract” (sometimes also referred to as a “MEC”). In all cases, however, the character of any income described below as being taxable to the recipient will be ordinary income (as opposed to capital gain).

Testing for modified endowment contract status.  Your policy will be a “modified endowment contract” if, at any time during the first seven years of your policy, you have paid a cumulative amount of premiums that exceeds the cumulative

seven-pay limit. The cumulative seven-pay limit is the amount of premiums that you would have paid by that time under a similar fixed-benefit insurance policy that was designed (based on certain assumptions mandated under the Code) to provide for paid up future benefits after the payment of seven equal annual premiums. (“Paid up” means that no future premiums would be required.) This is called the “seven-pay” test.

Whenever there is a “material change” under a policy, the policy will generally be (a) treated as a new contract for purposes of determining whether the policy is a modified endowment contract and (b) subjected to a new seven-pay period and a new seven-pay limit. The new seven-pay limit would be determined taking into account, under a prescribed formula, the policy account value at the time of such change.

A materially changed policy would be considered a modified endowment contract if it failed to satisfy the new seven-pay limit at any time during the new seven-pay period.

If your policy’s benefits are reduced during its first seven years (or within seven years after a material change), the seven-pay limit will be redetermined based on the reduced level of benefits and applied retroactively for purposes of the seven-pay test. (Such a reduction in benefits could include, for example, a requested decrease in face amount, the termination of additional benefits under a rider or, in some cases, a partial withdrawal.) If the premiums previously paid during its first seven years (or within seven years after a material change) are greater than the recalculated (lower) seven-pay limit, the policy will become a modified endowment contract.

A life insurance policy that you receive in exchange for a modified endowment contract will also be considered a modified endowment contract.

In addition to the above premium limits for testing for modified endowment status, federal income tax rules must be complied with in order for it to qualify as life insurance. Changes made to your policy, for example, a decrease in face amount (including any decrease that may occur as a result of a partial withdrawal), or other decrease in benefits may impact the maximum amount of premiums that can be paid, as well as the maximum amount of policy account value that may be maintained under the policy. We may also be required to provide a higher death benefit notwithstanding the decrease in face amount in order to assure that your policy continues to qualify as life insurance. Under either test, in some cases, this may cause us to take current or future action in order to assure that your policy continues to qualify as life insurance, including distribution of amounts to you that may be includible as income. See “Changes we can make” in this prospectus.

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Taxation of pre-death distributions if your policy is not a modified endowment contract.  As long as your policy remains in force as a non-modified endowment contract, policy loans will generally be treated as indebtedness, and no part of the loan proceeds will be subject to current federal income tax. Interest on the loan will generally not be tax deductible, although interest credited on loan collateral may become taxable under the rules below if distributed. However, there is some uncertainty as to the federal tax treatment of policy loans with a small or no spread between the interest rate charged and the interest rate credited on the amount loaned. You should consult a qualified tax adviser as to the federal tax treatment of such loans. Also, see below for taxation of loans upon surrender or termination of your policy.

If you make a partial withdrawal after the first 15 years of your policy, the proceeds will not be subject to federal income tax except to the extent such proceeds exceed your “basis” in your policy. (Your basis generally will equal the premiums you have paid, less the amount of any previous distributions from your policy that were not taxable.) During the first 15 years, however, the proceeds from a partial withdrawal could be subject to federal income tax, under a complex formula, to the extent that your policy account value exceeds your basis.

Upon full surrender, any amount by which the proceeds we pay (including amounts we use to discharge any policy loan and unpaid loan interest) exceed your basis in the policy will be subject to federal income tax. In addition, if a policy terminates after a grace period, the extinguishment of any then-outstanding policy loan and unpaid loan interest will be treated as a distribution and could be subject to tax under the foregoing rules. Finally, if you make an assignment of rights or benefits under your policy, you may be deemed to have received a distribution from your policy, all or part of which may be taxable.

Policy loans.  Policy loans can cause taxable income upon the termination of a policy with no cash payout. In the case of a surrender, the loan amount is taken into account in determining any taxable amount and such income can also exceed the payment received. These events can occur from potential situations which include: (1) amount of outstanding policy debt (loans taken plus unpaid interest amounts added to the outstanding loan) at or near the maximum loan value; (2) unfavorable investment results affecting your policy account value; (3) increasing monthly policy charges due to increasing attained ages of the insured; (4) high or increasing amount of insurance risk, and changing account value; and (5) increasing policy loan rates if an adjustable policy loan rate is in effect.

Ideally a policy loan will be paid from income tax free death benefit proceeds if your policy is kept in force until the death of the insured. To avoid policy terminations that may give rise to significant income tax liability, you may need to make substantial premium payments or loan repayments to keep your policy in force.

You can reduce the likelihood that these situations will occur by considering these risks before taking a policy loan. If you take a policy loan, you should monitor the status of your policy with your financial representative and your tax advisor

at least annually, and take appropriate preventative action. As indicated above, in the case of a policy that is a modified endowment contract (“MEC”), any loan will be treated as a distribution when made, and thus may be taxable at such time.

Taxation of pre-death distributions if your policy is a modified endowment contract.  Any distribution from your policy will be taxed on an “income-first” basis if your policy is a modified endowment contract. Distributions for this purpose include a loan (including any increase in the loan amount to pay interest on an existing loan or an assignment or a pledge to secure a loan) or withdrawal. Any such distributions will be considered taxable income to you to the extent your policy account value exceeds your basis in the policy. (For modified endowment contracts, your basis is similar to the basis described above for other policies, except that it also would be increased by the amount of any prior loan under your policy that was considered taxable income to you.)

For purposes of determining the taxable portion of any distribution, all modified endowment contracts issued by the Company (or its affiliates) to the same owner (excluding certain qualified plans) during any calendar year are treated as if they were a single contract.

A 10% penalty tax also will apply to the taxable portion of most distributions from a policy that is a modified endowment contract. The penalty tax will not, however, apply to (i) taxpayers whose actual age is at least 59¹/₂, (ii) distributions in the case of a disability (as defined in the Code) or (iii) distributions received as part of a series of substantially equal periodic annuity payments for the life (or life expectancy) of the taxpayer or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of the taxpayer and his or her beneficiary. The exceptions generally do not apply to life insurance policies owned by corporations or other entities.

If your policy terminates after a grace period, the extinguishment of any then outstanding policy loan and unpaid loan interest will be treated as a distribution (to the extent the loan was not previously treated as such) and could be subject to tax, including the 10% penalty tax, as described above. In addition, upon a full surrender, any excess of the proceeds we pay (including any amounts we use to discharge any loan) over your basis in the policy, will be subject to federal income tax and, unless an exception applies, the 10% penalty tax.

Distributions that occur during a year of your policy in which it becomes a modified endowment contract, and during any subsequent years, will be taxed as described in the four preceding paragraphs. In addition, distributions from a policy within two years before it becomes a modified endowment contract also will be subject to tax in this manner. This means that a distribution made from a policy that is not a modified endowment contract could later become taxable as a distribution from a modified endowment contract. So, for example, if a policy has been collaterally assigned as security for a loan and the policy subsequently becomes a MEC there could be a taxable deemed distribution even though the policy owner has not received any payment from us.

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Policy changes.  Changes made to a life insurance policy, for example, a decrease in benefits, or the termination or restoration of a terminated policy, may have other effects on your policy, including impacting the maximum amount of premiums that can be paid under the policy. In some cases, this may cause us to take action in order to assure your policy continues to qualify as life insurance, including distribution of amounts that may be includable as income. This action may be required under the tax law even though the policy may not be sufficiently funded to keep it in force for a desired duration. In some cases, premium payments for a policy year could be limited to the amount needed to keep the policy in force until the end of the policy year. You should carefully go over the implications of any policy changes with your advisor before making a change.

Restoration of a terminated policy.  For tax purposes, some restorations of a policy that terminated after a grace period may be treated as the purchase of a new policy. Since tax laws and regulations and their application may have changed by such time, there can be no assurance that we can reinstate the policy to qualify as life insurance under future tax rules.

Tax treatment of Living Benefits Rider under a policy with the rider

Living Benefits Rider.  Amounts received under an insurance policy on the life of an individual who is terminally ill, as defined by the tax law, are generally excludable from gross income as an accelerated death benefit. We believe that the benefits provided under our living benefits rider meet the tax law’s definition of terminally ill under section 101(g) of the Code and can qualify for this income tax exclusion.

If the owner and the insured person are not the same, the exclusion for accelerated death benefits for terminal illness or a chronic illness does not apply if the owner (taxpayer) has an insurable interest with respect to the life of the insured person by reason of the insured person being an officer, employee or director of the taxpayer or by reason of the insured person being financially interested in any trade or business carried on by the taxpayer.

If the owner and insured person are not the same, other tax considerations may also arise in connection with a transfer of benefits received to the insured person, for example, gift taxes in personal settings, compensation income in the employment context and inclusion of life insurance policy proceeds for estate tax purposes in certain trust owned situations. Under certain conditions, a gift tax exclusion may be available for certain amounts paid on behalf of a donee directly to their provider of medical care.

Business and employer owned policies

Any employer owned life insurance arrangement on an employee or director as well as any corporate, trade, or business use of a policy should be carefully reviewed by your tax advisor with attention to the rules discussed below. Also, careful consideration should be given to any other rules that may apply, including other possible pending or recently enacted legislative proposals.

Requirements for income tax free death benefits.  Federal tax law imposes additional requirements for employer owned life insurance policies. The provisions can have broad application for contract owners engaged in a trade or business or certain related persons. These requirements include detailed notice and consent rules, annual tax reporting and recordkeeping requirements on the employer and limitations on those employees (including directors) who can be insured under the life insurance policy. Failure to satisfy applicable requirements will result in death benefits in excess of premiums paid by the owner being includible in the owner’s income upon the death of the insured employee. Notice and consent requirements must be satisfied before the issuance of the life insurance policy or a material change to an existing life insurance policy, otherwise benefits may lose their tax favored treatment.

The rules generally apply to life insurance policies issued after August 17, 2006. Note, however, that material increases in the death benefit or other material changes will generally cause an existing policy to be treated as a new policy and thus subject to the new requirements. The term “material” has not yet been fully defined but is expected to not include automatic increases in death benefits in order to maintain compliance with the life insurance policy tax qualification rules under the Code. An exception for certain tax-free exchanges of life insurance policies pursuant to Section 1035 of the Code may be available but is not clearly defined.

Limitations on interest deductibility for business owned life insurance.  Ownership of a policy by a trade or business can limit the amount of any interest on business borrowings that the entity otherwise could deduct for federal income tax purposes, even though such business borrowings may be unrelated to the policy. To avoid the limit, the insured person must be an officer, director, employee or 20% owner of the trade or business entity when coverage on that person commences. Proposals, if enacted, could narrow the exception unless the policy is grandfathered.

The limit does not generally apply for policies owned by natural persons (even if those persons are conducting a trade or business as sole proprietorships), unless a trade or business entity that is not a sole proprietorship is a direct or indirect beneficiary under the policy. Entities commonly have such a beneficial interest, for example, in so-called “split-dollar” arrangements. If the trade or business entity has such an interest in a policy, it will be treated the same as if it owned the policy for purposes of the limit on deducting interest on unrelated business income.

The limit generally applies only to policies issued after June 8, 1997 in taxable years ending after such date. However, for this purpose, any material change in a policy will be treated as the issuance of a new policy.

In cases where the above-discussed limit on deductibility applies, the non-deductible portion of unrelated interest on business loans is determined by multiplying the total amount of such interest by a fraction. The numerator of the fraction is the policy’s average account value (excluding amounts we are holding to secure any policy loans) for the year in question, and the denominator is the average for the year of the aggregate tax bases of all the entity’s other assets. The above limitation is in addition to rules limiting interest deductions on policy loans against business-owned life insurance. Special rules apply to insurance company owners of policies which may be more restrictive.

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Uses of policy which may be scrutinized.  The IRS may view certain uses of life insurance policies as a tax shelter or as an abusive transaction. Please consult your tax advisor for the most up-to-date information as to IRS “Recognized Abusive and Listed Transactions” and how they may affect your policy.

Requirement that we diversify investments

Under Section 817(h) of the Code, the Treasury Department has issued regulations that implement investment diversification requirements. Failure to comply with these regulations would disqualify your policy as a life insurance policy under Section 7702 of the Code. If this were to occur, you would be subject to federal income tax on any income and gains under the policy and the death benefit proceeds would lose their income tax-free status. These consequences would continue for the period of the disqualification and for subsequent periods. Through the Portfolios, we intend to comply with the applicable diversification requirements, though no assurances can be given in this regard.

Estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes

If the policy’s owner is the insured person, the death benefit will generally be includable in the owner’s estate for purposes of federal estate tax. If the owner is not the insured person, and the owner dies before the insured person, the value of the policy would be includable in the owner’s estate. If the owner is neither the insured person nor the beneficiary, the owner will be considered to have made a gift to the beneficiary of the death benefit proceeds when they become payable.

In general, a person will not owe estate or gift taxes until gifts made by such person, plus that person’s taxable estate, total at least $10 million (this statutory amount is to be indexed for inflation after 2010). A portability rule generally permits a surviving spouse to elect to carry over the unused portion of the deceased spouse’s exclusion amount.

Certain amounts may be deductible or excludable, such as gifts and bequests to a person’s spouse or charitable institutions, as well as for certain gifts per recipient per year ($15,000 for 2021, indexed for inflation).

As a general rule, if you make a “transfer” to a person two or more generations younger than you, a generation-skipping tax may be payable. Generation-skipping transactions would include, for example, a case where a grandparent “skips” his or her children and names his or her grandchildren as a policy’s beneficiaries. In that case, the generation-skipping “transfer” would be deemed to occur when the insurance proceeds are paid. The generation-skipping tax rates are similar to the maximum estate tax rates in effect at the time. Individuals, are generally allowed an aggregate generation-skipping tax exemption of the same amount discussed above for estate and gift taxes, but without portability.

The particular situation of each policyowner, insured person or beneficiary will determine how ownership or receipt of policy proceeds will be treated for purposes of federal estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes, as well as state and local estate, inheritance and other taxes. Because these rules are complex, you should consult with a qualified tax adviser for specific information, especially where benefits are passing to younger generations.

If this policy is used with estate and gift tax planning in mind, you should consult with your tax advisor as to the most up-to-date information as to federal estate, gift and generation skipping tax rules.

Pension and profit-sharing plans

There are special limits on the amount of insurance that may be purchased by a trust or other entity that forms part of a pension or profit-sharing plan qualified under Section 401(a) or 403 of the Code. In addition, the federal income tax consequences will be different from those described in this prospectus. These rules are complex, and you should consult a qualified tax advisor.

Split-dollar and other employee benefit programs

Complex rules may also apply when a policy is held by an employer or a trust, or acquired by an employee, in connection with the provision of other employee benefits. Employees may have imputed income for the value of any economic benefit provided by the employer. There may be other tax implications, as well. It is possible that certain split-dollar arrangements may be considered to be a form of deferred compensation under Section 409A of the Code, which broadens the definition of deferred compensation plans, and subjects such plans to new requirements. Further, certain split-dollar arrangements may come within the rules for business- and employer-owned policies. Among other issues, policyowners must consider whether the policy was applied for by or issued to a person having an insurable interest under applicable state law and with the insured person’s consent. The lack of an insurable interest or consent may, among other things, affect the qualification of the policy as life insurance for federal income tax purposes and the right of the beneficiary to receive a death benefit.

If this policy is being or was purchased pursuant to a split-dollar arrangement, you should also consult your tax advisor for advice concerning the effect of the following guidance. In 2002 the IRS issued Notice 2002-8 concerning the taxation of split-dollar life insurance arrangements as well as regulations in both 2002 and 2003. They provide for taxation under one of two mutually exclusive regimes depending upon the structure of the arrangement. These are a loan regime and an economic benefit regime. Transition and grandfathering rules, among other items, should be carefully reviewed when considering such arrangements. A material modification to an existing arrangement may result in a change in tax treatment. In addition, public corporations (generally publicly-traded or publicly-reporting companies) and their subsidiaries should consider the possible implications on split-dollar arrangements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 which generally prohibit certain direct or indirect loans to executive officers or directors. At least some split-dollar arrangements could be deemed to involve loans within the purview of that section.

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ERISA

Employers and employer-created trusts may be subject to reporting, disclosure and fiduciary obligations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. There may also be other implications. You should consult a qualified legal advisor.

3.8% Tax on Net Investment Income or “NII”

The 3.8% Medicare tax on certain unearned income of taxpayers whose adjusted incomes exceed certain thresholds applies to all or part of a taxpayer’s NII. As currently interpreted under IRS guidelines, NII includes the taxable portion of an annuitized payment from a life insurance contract. It has not been defined to include taxable amounts from partial withdrawals, surrenders or lapses of life insurance policies subject to loans. You should consult your tax advisor as to the applicability of this tax to you.

Our taxes

The operations of our separate accounts are reported in our federal income tax return. Separate account investment income and capital gains, however, are, for tax purposes, reflected in our variable life insurance policy reserves. Currently we pay no taxes on such income and gains and impose no charge for such taxes. We reserve the right to impose a charge in the future for taxes incurred by us that are allocable to the policies.

We are entitled to certain tax benefits related to the investment of company assets, including assets of the separate accounts. These tax benefits, which may include the foreign tax credit and the corporate dividends received deduction, are not passed back to you, since we are the owner of the assets from which tax benefits may be derived.

Tax withholding and information reporting

Status for income tax purposes; FATCA.  In order for us to comply with income tax withholding and information reporting rules which may apply to life insurance policies, we request documentation of “status” for tax purposes. “Status” for tax purposes generally means whether a person is a “U.S. person” or a foreign person with respect to the United States; whether a person is an individual or an entity, and if an entity, the type of entity. Status for tax purposes is best documented on the appropriate IRS Form or substitute certification form (IRS Form W-9 for a U.S. person or the appropriate type of IRS Form W-8 for a foreign person). If we do not have appropriate certification or documentation of a person’s status for tax purposes on file, it could affect the rate at which we are required to withhold income tax, and penalties could apply. Information reporting rules could apply not only to specified transactions, but also to life insurance policy ownership. For example, under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”), which applies to certain U.S.-source payments, and similar or related withholding and information reporting rules, we may be required to report policy values and other information for certain

policyholders. For this reason, we and our affiliates intend to require appropriate status documentation at purchase, change of ownership, and affected payment transactions, including death benefit payments. FATCA and its related guidance is extraordinarily complex and its effect varies considerably by type of payor, type of payee and type of recipient.

Tax Withholding.  Generally, unless you provide us with a satisfactory written election to the contrary prior to the distribution, we are required to withhold income tax from any proceeds we distribute as part of a taxable transaction under your policy. If you do not wish us to withhold tax from the payment, or if we do not withhold enough, you may have to pay later, and you may incur penalties under the estimated income tax rules. In some cases, where generation skipping taxes may apply, we may also be required to withhold for such taxes unless we are provided satisfactory notification that no such taxes are due. States may also require us to withhold tax on distributions to you and may not always follow federal rules.

Special withholding rules apply to United States citizens residing outside of the United States, foreign recipients, and certain U.S. entity recipients which are treated as foreign because they fail to document their U.S. status before payment is made. We do not discuss these rules here in detail. However, we may require additional documentation in the case of payments made to United States persons living abroad and non-United States persons (including U.S. entities treated as foreign) prior to processing any requested transaction. For Puerto Rico and other jurisdictions, income is considered U.S.-source income. We anticipate requiring owners or beneficiaries in Puerto Rico which are not individuals to document their status to avoid 30% FATCA withholding from U.S.-source income.

Possibility of future tax changes and other tax information

The U.S. Congress frequently considers legislation that, if enacted, could change the tax treatment of life insurance policies or increase the taxes we pay in connection with such policies. This could include special rules for tax-exempt entities as well as for corporate or business use of policies. Congress may consider further proposals to comprehensively reform or overhaul the United States tax and retirement systems, which if enacted, could affect the tax benefits of a life insurance policy. Legislative proposals could make sweeping changes to many longstanding tax rules including certain tax benefits currently available to newly purchased cash value life insurance policies. Proposals have been considered to eliminate some or all taxable expenditures or tax preferences together with some lowering of tax rates. We cannot predict what if any, legislation will actually be proposed or enacted or what type of grandfathering will be allowed for existing life insurance policies. In addition, the Treasury Department may amend existing regulations, issue regulations on the qualification of life insurance and modified endowment contracts, or adopt new

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or clarifying interpretations of existing law. Some areas of possible future guidance include new rules for testing for policies issued on a special risk class basis. As a result, there are areas of some uncertainty even under current laws, such that future tax consequences of a policy could be other than as described herein.

State and local tax law or, if you are not a U.S. citizen and resident, foreign tax law, may also affect the tax consequences to you, the insured person or your beneficiary, and are subject to change or change in interpretation. Any changes in federal, state, local or foreign tax law or interpretations could have a retroactive effect both on our taxes and on the way your policy is taxed or the tax benefit of life insurance policies. As explained under “Cost of insurance charge,” the policy charges and tax qualification are based upon 2017 Commissioner’s Standard Ordinary (CSO) tables. New tables may apply to new policies in future years. Certain safe harbors may be available under federal tax rules to permit certain policy changes without losing the ability to use 2017 CSO based tables for testing. If we determine that certain future changes to your policy would cause it to lose its ability to be tax tested under the 2017 CSO mortality tables, we intend to refuse such transactions which might have otherwise been available under your policy, subject to our rules then in effect. We would take such action to help assure that your policy can continue to qualify as life insurance for federal tax testing under the 2017 CSO based tables.

Other information

There are a number of tax benefits associated with variable life insurance policies. For tax benefits to be available, the policyowner must have an insurable interest in the life of the insured under applicable state laws. Requirements may vary by state. A failure can, among other consequences, cause the policyowner to lose anticipated favorable federal tax treatment generally afforded life insurance.

For tax benefits to continue, the policy must continue to qualify as life insurance. We reserve the right to restrict transactions that we determine would cause your policy to fail to qualify as life insurance under federal tax law. We also reserve the right to decline to make any change that may cause your policy to lose its ability to be tested for federal income tax purposes under the 2017 Commissioners Standard Ordinary Mortality Tables.

In addition to other requirements, federal tax law requires that the insurer, and not the policyowner, have control of the underlying investment assets for the policy to qualify as life insurance.

You may make transfers among Portfolios of the Separate Account, but you may not direct the investments each Portfolio makes. If the IRS were to conclude that you, as the investor, have control over these investments, then the policy would no longer qualify as life insurance. You would be treated as the owner of separate account assets and be currently taxed on any income or gain the assets generate.

The IRS has provided some guidance on investor control, but many issues remain unclear. One such issue is whether a policyowner can have too much investor control if the variable life policy offers a large number of investment options in which to invest policy account values and/or the ability to make frequent transfers available under the policy. We do not know if the IRS will provide any further guidance on the issue. If guidance is provided, we do not know if it would apply retroactively to policies already in force.

We believe that our variable life policies do not give policyowners investment control over the investments underlying the various investment options; however, the IRS could disagree with our position. The IRS could seek to treat policyowners with a large number of investment options and/or the ability to freely transfer among investment options as the owners of the underlying Portfolio’s shares. Accordingly, we reserve the right to modify your policy as necessary to attempt to prevent you from being considered the owner of your policy’s proportionate share of the assets of the Separate Account.

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8. Other benefits available under the policy

In addition to the standard death benefit(s) associated with your Policy, other standard and/or optional benefits may also be available to you. The following table summarizes information about those benefits. Information about the fees associated with each benefit included in the table may be found in the “Fee Table.”

Name of Benefit	Purpose	Is Benefit Standard or Optional	Brief Description of Restrictions/Limitation
Charitable Legacy Rider	Provides an additional death benefit of 1% of the base policy face amount to the qualified charitable organization(s) chosen by the policy owner.	Optional	•   Only available at issue and an accredited charitable beneficiary must be named at that time. •   Available for base policy face amounts of $1 million and above, where the minimum benefit would be $10,000 and the maximum benefit would be $100,000 (i.e., for face amounts of $10 million and above). •   If the base policy face amount is reduced after issue for any reason, the benefit will be payable on the face amount at the time of the insured’s death, provided the face amount is at least $1 million. •   If the base policy face amount has been decreased below $1 million at the time of death, then no benefit is payable.
Living Benefits Rider	Enables you to receive a portion of the policy’s death benefit (with certain exclusions), if the insured person has a terminal illness.	Optional	•   May be elected either at policy issue or after policy issue. If elected after issue, we will deduct $100 from your policy account value at the time of the transaction. •   Subject to underwriting guidelines and state availability, your policy will automatically include this rider if you apply for a face amount of at least $100,000. •   The maximum aggregate amount of payments that will be paid under this rider for all policies issued by the Company or an affiliate company on the life of the same insured person is $500,000.
No-Lapse Guarantee Rider	Generally guarantees that your policy will not terminate for a number of years.	Standard	•   Subject to the payment of certain specified amounts of premiums. •   Rider will not prevent the policy from entering a grace period if the amount of your outstanding policy loans and accrued loan interest is greater than your policy account value. •   Subject to certain conditions, provides a guarantee against policy lapse for 15 years.

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Name of Benefit	Purpose	Is Benefit Standard or Optional	Brief Description of Restrictions/Limitation
Policy Continuation Rider	Protects against the lapse of your policy in certain circumstances.	Optional	•   You can exercise the rider and be placed on “policy continuation,” if at the beginning of any policy month on or following the policy anniversary nearest the insured person’s 75th birthday, but not earlier than the 15th policy anniversary, all of the following conditions apply: •   The amount of any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest equals or exceed the policy account value multiplied by the Policy Continuation Trigger Percentage as provided in your policy; •   There must be sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge; •   The policy must not be a Modified Endowment Contract as defined in section 7702A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exercising the rider must not cause the policy to become a Modified Endowment Contract. •   The amount of any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest is greater than the current base policy face amount; •   The policy is not in a grace period; and •   No current or future distributions will be required to be paid from the policy to maintain its qualification as “life insurance” under the Internal Revenue Code.

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Other benefits you can add by rider

When you purchase this policy, you could be eligible for the following other optional benefits we currently make available by rider.

The Company or your financial professional can provide you with more information about these riders. Some of these benefits may be selected only at the time your policy is issued. Some benefits are not available in combination with others or may not be available in your state. The riders provide additional terms, conditions and limitations, and we will furnish samples of them to you on request. We can add, delete, or modify the riders we are making available, at any time before they become effective as part of your policy.

See also “Tax information” in this prospectus for certain possible tax consequences and limitations of deleting riders or changing the death benefits under a rider.

Charitable Legacy Rider

An optional rider may be elected at issue that provides an additional death benefit of 1% of the base policy face amount to the qualified charitable organization(s) chosen by the policy owner at no additional cost. This rider is only available at issue and an accredited charitable beneficiary must be named at that time. The rider is available for base policy face amounts of $1 million and above, where the minimum benefit would be $10,000 and the maximum benefit would be $100,000 (i.e. for face amounts of $10 million and above).

If the base policy face amount is reduced after issue for any reason, the benefit will be payable on the face amount at the time of the insured’s death, provided the face amount is at least $1 million. If the face amount has been decreased below $1 million at the time of death, then no benefit is payable.

The designated beneficiary of this rider must be an organization exempt from federal taxation under Section 501(c) of the Code and listed in Section 170(c) of the Code as an authorized recipient of charitable contributions. See www.IRS.gov for valid organizations.

Example: Initial policy face amount of $1,000,000 with a charity named at policy issue. If face amount remains at $1,000,000, then upon death, $10,000 (.01 x $1,000,000) will be payable to a designated qualified charity.

• Rider termination.  The charitable legacy rider will terminate and no further benefits will be paid on the earliest of the following:

— the termination of the policy;

— the surrender of the policy;

— the date we receive the policy owner’s written request to terminate the rider; or

— the date of the insured’s death

If the base policy lapses and is subsequently restored, the rider will be reinstated.

Living Benefits Rider

Your option to receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider

Subject to our insurance underwriting guidelines and availability in your state, your policy will automatically include our Living Benefits Rider if you apply for a face amount of at least $100,000. This feature enables you to receive a portion (generally the lesser of 75% or $250,000) of the policy’s death benefit (excluding death benefits payable under certain other policy riders), if the insured person has a terminal illness (as defined in the rider). The maximum aggregate amount of payments that will be paid under this Living Benefits Rider for all policies issued by the Company or an affiliate company on the life of the same insured person is $500,000. We make no additional charge for the rider, but we will deduct a one-time administrative charge of up to $250 from any living benefit we pay.

If you tell us that you do not wish to have the Living Benefits Rider added at issue, but you later ask to add it, there will be a $100 administrative charge. Also, we will need to evaluate the insurance risk at that time, and we may decline to issue the rider.

We will deduct the amount of any living benefit we have paid, plus interest (as specified in the rider), from the death benefit proceeds that become payable under the policy if and when the insured person dies. (In your policy we refer to this as a “lien” we establish against your policy.)

When we pay a living benefit, we automatically transfer a pro rata portion of your policy’s net cash surrender value to the policy’s guaranteed interest option regardless of any policy guaranteed interest option limitation in effect. This amount, together with the interest we charge thereon, will be “restricted”— that is, it will not be available for any loans, transfers or partial withdrawals that you may wish to make. In addition, it may not be used to satisfy the charges we deduct from your policy’s value. We also will deduct these restricted amounts from any subsequent surrender proceeds that we pay.

The receipt of a living benefits payment may qualify for exclusion from income tax. See “Tax information” below. Receipt of a living benefits payment may affect your eligibility for certain government benefits or entitlements.

You can arrange to receive a “living benefit” if the insured person becomes terminally ill.

Example: Policy owner is age 55 and has been diagnosed with cancer. He is not expected to live longer than 12 months and submits a claim for Living Benefits under a policy with a $200,000 face amount. The cash surrender value of the policy is currently $50,000. He has a policy loan (including accrued interest) of $25,000 outstanding on the policy, so his net death benefit is $175,000 ($200,000 - $25,000) and his net cash surrender value is $25,000 ($50,000 - $25,000).

The maximum Living Benefits payment available is the lesser of $250,000 and 75% of his $175,000 net death benefit ($131,250). Policy owner requests half of this amount, or

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$65,625, on his claim and receives a lump sum payment of $65,375 (after a claim processing fee of $250 is assessed). Policy owner dies 10 months after filing his claim for Living Benefits. His wife as the beneficiary on his policy receives $128,372. This death claim payment and other policy values are calculated as follows:

Before Payment of Living Benefits:
Policy Loan Outstanding	$	25,000
Net Death Benefit	$	175,000
Net Cash Surrender Value	$	25,000
Living Benefits Payment Requested	$	65,625
Net Amount Minus $250 Processing Fee	$	65,375

Immediately After Payment of Living Benefits
Net Death Benefit	$	175,000
Lien Outstanding	$	65,625
Death Benefit Net of the Policy Loan and Lien	$	109,375
Net Cash Surrender Value	$	25,000
Initial Lien against Cash Value [65,625 x (25,000/175,000)]1	$	9,375
Cash Surrender Value Net of Policy Loan and Lien	$	15,625

1 The lien resulting from the Living Benefit payment is equal to the amount of Living Benefit plus accrued interest plus additional amounts, if any, that are advanced to keep the policy in force. The amount of cash value net of existing policy loans, in excess of a specified percentage (which will not be greater than 100%) of the lien, is available for additional policy loans or partial withdrawals. The specified percentage is equal to the net cash value divided by the net death benefit. The net cash value is the cash value minus any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest. The net death benefit is the death benefit minus any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest.

Ten Months Later:
Lien	$	65,625
Interest on Lien2	$	2,852
Lien Plus Interest	$	68,477
Policy Loan	$	25,000
Interest on Policy Loan2	$	1,037
Policy Loan Plus Interest	$	26,037
Death Benefit Net of Policy Loan and Lien [200,000 – $68,477 – $26,037]	$	105,486

2. Assumes a hypothetical 8% annual rate for the outstanding policy loan and the Lien. For policies with cash values, the actual interest rate for the Lien at the time the Living Benefits payment is made will not exceed the greater of: (i) the 90-Day Treasury Bill or (ii) the higher of (a) the maximum adjustable policy loan interest rate based on the “Published Monthly Average,” as defined below, for the calendar month that ends two months before the date of application for the Living Benefits payment or (b) the policy guaranteed cash value interest rate plus 1% per year.* The interest rate accrued on the portion of the Lien that is allocated to the policy cash value will not be more than the policy loan interest rate.

* For policies without cash values, the actual interest rate for the Lien at the time the Living Benefits payment is made will not exceed the greater of: (i) the 90-Day Treasury Bill or (ii) the “Published Monthly

Average,” as defined below, for the calendar month that ends two months before the date of application for the Living Benefits payment.

The “Published Monthly Average” means the Moody’s Corporate Bond Yield Average – Monthly Average Corporates published by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or any successor thereto. If such averages are no longer published, we will use such other averages as may be established by regulation by the insurance supervisory official of the jurisdiction in which this policy is delivered.

No-Lapse Guarantee rider

You can generally guarantee that your policy will not terminate for a number of years by paying at least certain specified amounts of premiums, and as long as any outstanding policy loans and accrued loan interest do not exceed your policy account value. We call these amounts “guarantee premiums” and they will be set forth in the “Policy Information” section of your policy. This guarantee against termination is our No-Lapse Guarantee rider. Under the No-Lapse Guarantee rider, subject to the conditions below your policy is guaranteed not to lapse during a no-lapse guarantee period of 15 years.

Your policy will not terminate, even if your net policy account value is not sufficient to pay your monthly charges, as long as:

• You have satisfied the “guarantee premium test” (discussed in “guarantee premium test for the no-lapse guarantee” under “More information about policy benefits” in this prospectus); and

• Any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest does not exceed the policy account value.

There is no extra charge for this rider.

Example: A representative insured age 60 (issue age of 50) has a policy that will lapse next month because the monthly charges exceed the net policy account value. The cumulative amount of premiums paid to date (less any partial withdrawals) exceeds the cumulative guarantee premiums due to date for the no-lapse guarantee. As a result, the rider is still in force and the policy did not lapse even when the net policy account value fell to zero.

Guarantee premium test.  If your net policy account value is not sufficient to pay a monthly deduction that has become due, we check to see if the cumulative amount of premiums that you have paid to date (less any partial withdrawals) at least equals the cumulative guarantee premiums due to date for the no-lapse guarantee including any cumulative guarantee premiums for any optional riders that are then in effect. If it does, your policy will not lapse, provided that any policy loan and accrued loan interest does not exceed the policy account value, and provided that the guarantee is still in effect.

Guarantee premiums.  The amount of the guarantee premiums for the no-lapse guarantee are set forth in your policy on a monthly basis. The guarantee premiums are actuarially determined at policy issuance and depend on the

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age and other insurance risk characteristics of the insured person, as well as the amount of the coverage and additional features you select. The guarantee premiums may change if, for example, the face amount of the policy changes, or a rider is eliminated, or if there is a change in the insured person’s risk characteristics. We will send you a new policy page showing any change in your guarantee premiums. Any change will be prospective only, and no change will extend the no-lapse guarantee period beyond its original number of years.

Policy Continuation Rider

This rider is automatically included in your policy and pro- vides protection against future policy lapse when the net policy account value (policy account value less any out- standing policy loan and accrued loan interest) are insufficient to cover the monthly deductions of the policy due to loan indebtedness. If the net policy account value at that time is not sufficient to cover the Policy Continuation Charge, you will be given 30 days to remit sufficient funds to cover any deficiency for this charge. If these funds are not received within that time, Policy Continuation will not take effect. It cannot be exercised during a grace period, but should be exercised before there is insufficient net policy account value to pay monthly charges. If you exercise the Policy Continuation Rider, the policy will then become “paid-up” life insurance.

There is no charge for the Policy Continuation Rider unless and until it is exercised. If it is exercised, there is a one-time charge. The charge for the rider is described in more detail in “Fee Table“ under “Important information you should consider about the policy” in this prospectus and “Policy Continuation charge” in “More information about policy charges” in this prospectus.

Exercising the Policy Continuation Rider.  In order to exercise the Policy Continuation Rider, ALL of the following conditions must be met under your policy:

(1) the amount of any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest equals or exceeds the policy account value multiplied by the Policy Continuation Trigger Percentage as provided in your policy.

(2) your policy has been in force for at least 15 policy years;

(3) the insured person’s attained age is at least 75;

(4) the outstanding loan amount and accrued loan interest exceeds the current base policy face amount;

(5) the policy is not then in a grace period;

(6) no current or future distribution from the policy will be required to maintain its qualification as life insurance under the Internal Revenue Code;

(7) there must be sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge described in “Fee Table” under “Important information you should consider about the policy”; and

(8) the policy must not be a Modified Endowment Contract as defined in section 7702A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exercising this rider must not cause the policy to become a Modified Endowment Contract.

Notification and exercise of the Policy Continuation Rider.  We will notify you within 15 days after the beginning of the policy month when all of the conditions listed above occur that you may exercise the Policy Continuation Rider. If you wish to exercise the Policy Continuation Rider, you must respond in writing to our Administrative Office within 45 days after the date of the notice.

If there is any amount remaining in the unloaned policy account in excess of the Policy Continuation Charge, we will treat your instruction to exercise this rider as a request for an additional loan equal to this excess amount. Such amount will then be distributed to you on the effective date of Policy Continuation. Once you exercise the Policy Continuation Rider, Policy Continuation will remain in effect during the lifetime of the insured person unless the policy is surrendered.

If you do not respond to our notice telling you that you are eligible to exercise the Policy Continuation Rider, your policy and the rider will continue according to their terms. You may still exercise this Policy Continuation Rider at some future time if the appropriate conditions are met. Please note, however, that we will not send you another notice of eligibility to exercise this rider and the policy may lapse.

Effective date of Policy Continuation.  After you have satisfied the requirements for the Policy Continuation Rider, policy continuation will take effect at the beginning of the policy month that coincides with, or next follows, the date we receive your instruction to exercise the Policy Continuation Rider.

Policy Continuation charge.  There is no charge for this rider unless and until it is exercised. If this rider is exercised, there is a one-time charge. This charge is equal to the policy account value on the date this rider is exercised multiplied by the Policy Continuation Charge Rate shown in your policy. This rate is based on the age of the insured person on the date this rider is exercised.

Effect of Policy Continuation.  If Policy Continuation takes effect subject to the Policy Continuation Rider, all other additional benefit riders and endorsements will terminate when Policy Continuation takes effect. If the is any amount remaining in the net policy account value after the Policy Continuation Rider charge has been deducted, such amounts are treated as an additional loan and refunded to you so there will be no amounts in the variable investment options or the MSO. From that point forward, ALL of the following will apply:

(1) the policy will not lapse and no further premiums will be required;

(2) loan interest will continue to be due on each policy anniversary. If the interest is not paid when due, it will be added to your outstanding loan;

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(3) any payments we receive from you while the policy is on Policy Continuation will be applied as loan repayments and will be allocated to the unloaned portion of the guaranteed interest option to the extent of any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. Any excess will be refunded to you; and

(4) on each policy anniversary and any time you repay all of a policy loan, interest credited to the loaned portion of the guaranteed interest option will be allocated to the unloaned portion of the guaranteed interest option.

When Policy Continuation is in effect subject to the Policy Continuation Rider, ALL of the following are prohibited:

(1) partial withdrawals;

(2) premium payments;

(3) changes to the policy face amount;

(4) transfers out of, or allocations out of, the unloaned guaranteed interest option to the variable investment options or the MSO even if the loan is fully repaid; and

(5) any other requested policy changes.

When Policy Continuation is in effect, the death benefit of this policy is the greatest of: (a) the policy account value or the outstanding loan and accrued loan interest on the insured person’s date of death, whichever is greater, multiplied by a percentage shown in your policy for the insured person’s age (nearest birthday) at the beginning of each policy year, (b) the outstanding loan and accrued loan interest on the insured person’s date of death plus $10,000, or (c) the current base policy face amount.

We will deduct the amount of any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest from the death benefit we will pay. If you have a full surrender when Policy Continuation is in effect you will be paid the net cash surrender value.

For further information, please see Appendix “Examples of how the Policy Continuation Rider works” to your prospectus.

Policy Continuation Rider termination. This rider will terminate when the policy terminates.

Policy Continuation Rider restoration. If your policy ends without value at the end of a grace period, the Policy Continuation Rider will be restored along with the policy.

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9. More information about policy charges

How we allocate charges among your investment options

In your application for a policy, you tell us from which investment options you want us to take the policy’s monthly deductions as they fall due. You can change these instructions at any time. If we cannot deduct the charge as your most current instructions direct, we will allocate the deduction among your investment options proportionately to your value in each.

Substantially different procedures apply, however, if you allocate any of your policy account value to a Segment under the MSO investment option. In that case, for example, you will be required to maintain a certain amount of policy account value (the Charge Reserve Amount) in the policy’s unloaned guaranteed interest option. (You will not be subject to any Charge Reserve Amount requirement, however, at any time when none of your policy account value is invested in any MSO Segment.) The Charge Reserve Amount at the beginning of any Segment is the estimated amount required to pay all monthly deductions under your policy (including, but not limited to, charges for the MSO and any optional riders) for the remainder of the Segment Term.

While any of your policy account value is invested in any Segment, we will take all of your policy’s monthly deductions (including, but not limited to, the monthly deductions under the MSO and optional riders) solely from the unloaned guaranteed interest option, rather than from the investment options from which those charges otherwise would be deducted. If you have insufficient policy account value in the unloaned guaranteed interest option to pay a monthly deduction during any Segment Term, we will first take the balance of the deduction proportionately from any variable investment options (other than any Segments) that you are then using. But, if insufficient policy account value remains in any such other investment options to cover the full balance of the monthly deduction, we will take the remainder of the monthly deduction from any MSO Segments in which you have account value invested. We will apply these procedures for allocating deductions for policy charges automatically at any time you have any amounts invested in a Segment, and no contrary instructions from you would apply during the Segment Term.

If we have to make any distribution from an MSO Segment, including (among other things) to pay any surrender or loan proceeds or any charge deduction from a Segment, there will generally be negative consequences for you. Among other things, an Early Distribution Adjustment would apply, which would usually reduce your policy values, in many cases substantially. In some cases, such an Early Distribution Adjustment may apply without any action on your part. This

could happen, for example, if the Charge Reserve Amount and funds you have invested in options other than the MSO are insufficient to pay a monthly deduction (i) due to poor investment performance of those options or (ii) due to any permitted increases in charges that we have made above their current rates.

Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for detailed information about the above procedures.

Changes in charges

We reserve the right in the future to (1) make a charge for certain taxes or reserves set aside for taxes (see “Our taxes” under “Tax information” in this prospectus) that might be imposed on us; (2) make a charge for the operating expenses of our variable investment options (including, without limitation, SEC registration fees and related legal counsel fees and auditing fees); or (3) change our other current policy charges (in no event will they exceed the maximum charges guaranteed in your policy).

Any changes that we make in our current charges or charge rates will be on a basis that is equitable to all policies belonging to a given class, and will be determined based on reasonable assumptions as to expenses, mortality, investment income, lapses and policy and contract claims associated with morbidity. These assumptions include taxes, longevity, surrenders, persistency, conversions, disability, accident, illness, inability to perform activities of daily living, and cognitive impairment, if applicable. Any changes in charges may apply to then in force policies, as well as to new policies. You will be notified in writing of any changes in charges under your policy.

Deducting policy charges

Purposes of policy charges.  The charges under the policies are designed to cover, in the aggregate, our direct and indirect costs of selling, administering and providing benefits under the policies. They are also designed, in the aggregate, to compensate us for the risks of loss we assume pursuant to the policies. If, as we expect, the charges that we collect from the policies exceed our total costs in connection with the policies, we will earn a profit. Otherwise, we will incur a loss. In addition to the charges described below, there are also charges at the Portfolio level, which are described in the prospectuses of the Portfolios in which the funds invest. For additional information on all policy charges, see “More information about policy charges.”

Transaction charges

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policy account value as specified below (see “Periodic charges” below). In addition, charges may be deducted for transactions such as premium payments, policy surrenders, requested decreases in face amount, or transfers among investment options.

• Premium charge.  We deduct an amount not to exceed 5% from each premium payment you send us. Currently, in the first policy year, we charge 5% from each premium payment you send us up to the sales load target premium. In the first policy year, we reduce this charge to 4% after an amount equal to the sales load target premium has been paid. Beginning in the second policy year, we deduct 4% from each premium payment you send us. The “target premium” is actuarially determined for each policy, based on that policy’s specified characteristics, as well as the policy’s face amount, among other factors. The premium charge is designed in part to defray sales and tax expenses we incur that are based on premium payments.

• Surrender charges.  If you give up this policy for its net cash surrender value before the end of the tenth policy year, we will subtract a surrender charge from your policy account value.

The surrender charge at any time will be the lesser of a premium based surrender charge and the maximum surrender charge contained in the policy.

Table of Premium Based Surrender Charges
Policy Year of Premium Payment	Policy Year of Surrender
	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11 +
1		6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%		0%		0%		0%		0%
2				6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%		0%		0%		0%
3						6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%		0%		0%
4								6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%		0%
5										6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%
6												6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%
7														6%		5%		4%		3%		0%
8+																0%		0%		0%		0%

The premium based surrender charge is calculated as a varying percentage of premium payments made within the first 7 policy years. We will determine an incremental premium based surrender charge separately for each such premium payment (adjusted proportionately for subsequent face amount reductions, if any) by multiplying each premium payment by the applicable surrender charge percentage in accordance with the table above, based upon the number of policy years since the premium was paid. The total surrender charge is the sum of the incremental premium based surrender charges calculated for each premium. However, the total surrender charge will not be greater than the maximum surrender charge.

The maximum surrender charge contained in your policy is shown for the first policy month of each policy year. The

maximum surrender charge will be between $20.63 and $55.87 per $1,000 of initial base policy face amount, and depends on each policy’s specific characteristics.

The surrender charges are contingent deferred sales charges. They are contingent because you only pay them if you surrender your policy for its net cash surrender value (or request a reduction in its face amount, as described below). They are deferred because we do not deduct them from your premiums. Because the surrender charges are contingent and deferred, the amount we collect in a policy year is not related to actual expenses for that year.

The surrender charges assessed in connection with giving up this policy or with reductions in policy face amount are intended, in part, to compensate us for the fact that it takes us time to make a profit on your policy, and if you give up or reduce the face amount of your policy in its early years, we do not have the time to recoup our costs.

• Request a decrease in your policy’s face amount.  If there is a requested base policy face amount reduction within the first ten policy years, a proportionate surrender charge will be deducted from your policy account value. See “Surrender charges” above for information about the calculation of the surrender charge.

Assuming you have not previously changed the base policy face amount, a proportionate surrender charge will be determined by dividing the amount of the reduction in base policy face amount by the initial base policy face amount of insurance, and then multiplying that fraction by the surrender charge that is in effect immediately before the reduction. The proportionate surrender charge will not exceed the unloaned amount in the Policy Account at the time of the reduction. If a proportionate surrender charge is made, the maximum surrender charges and the premium based surrender charges corresponding to previous premium payments will be reduced proportionately. We will not deduct a proportionate surrender charge if the reduction resulted from a change from a partial withdrawal.

Surrender charges are deducted as instructed by the policy owner. If we cannot deduct the charge per the most current instruction, we will allocate the deduction among the investment options proportionately to the value in each.

• Transfers among investment options.  Although we do not currently charge for transfers among investment options, we reserve the right to make a transfer charge up to $25 for each transfer of amounts among your investment options. The transfer charge, if any, is deducted from the amounts transferred from your policy’s value in the variable investment options and in our guaranteed interest option based on the proportion that the amount transferred from each variable investment option and from our guaranteed interest option bears to the total amount being transferred. Any such charge would be, in part, to compensate us for our expenses in administering transfers. The charge will never apply to a transfer of all of your variable investment option amounts to our guaranteed interest option, transfers to or from the MSO or to any transfer pursuant to our automated transfer service or asset rebalancing service.

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Special services charges

We deduct a charge for providing the special services described below. These charges compensate us for the expense of processing each special service. Please note that we may discontinue some or all of these services without notice.

• Wire transfer charge.  We charge $90 for outgoing wire transfers. Unless you specify otherwise, this charge will be deducted from the amount you request.

• Express mail charge.  We charge $35 for sending you a check by express mail delivery. This charge will be deducted from the amount you request.

• Policy illustration charge.  We do not charge for illustrations. We reserve the right to charge up to $25 in the future. The charge for this service must be paid by using funds outside of your policy.

• Duplicate policy charge.  We charge $35 for providing a copy of your policy. The charge for this service can be paid (i) using a credit card acceptable to the Company, (ii) by sending a check to our Administrative Office, or (iii) by any other means we make available to you.

• Policy history charge.  We charge a maximum of $50 for providing you a history of policy transactions. If you request a policy history of less than 5 years from the date of your request, there is no charge. If you request a policy history of more than 5 years but less than 10 years from the date of your request, the current charge is $25. For policy histories of 10 years or more, the charge is $50. For all policy histories, we reserve the right to charge a maximum of $50. The charge for this service can be paid (i) using a credit card acceptable to the Company, (ii) by sending a check to our Administrative Office, or (iii) by any other means we make available to you.

• Charge for returned payments.  For each payment you make in connection with your policy that is returned for insufficient funds, we charge $25. The charge for this service can be paid (i) using a credit card acceptable to the Company, (ii) by sending a check to our Administrative Office, or (iii) by any other means we make available to you.

Periodic charges

On the first day of each month of the policy, charges for cost of insurance and certain other charges are deducted from your policy account value as specified below.

• Administrative charge.  In the first policy year, we deduct $15 from your policy account value at the beginning of each policy month. Currently, in all subsequent policy years we deduct $10 at the beginning of each policy month, but not beyond the policy anniversary when the insured person is attained age 100. We reserve the right to increase or decrease this amount in the future, although it will never exceed $10 and will never be deducted beyond the policy anniversary when the insured person is attained age 121. In addition we currently deduct between $0.33 and $1.60 per

$1,000 of your initial base policy face amount at the beginning of each policy month in the first ten policy years. We reserve the right to continue this charge beyond the ten year period previously described, but it will never be deducted beyond the policy anniversary when the insured person is attained age 121. The administrative charge is intended, in part, to compensate us for the costs involved in administering the policy.

We offer lower rates for non-tobacco users. You may generally ask us to review the tobacco habits of an insured person to change the charge from tobacco user rates to non-tobacco user rates. The change, if approved, may result in lower future administrative charges beginning on the effective date of the change to non-tobacco user rates.

Similarly, after the first policy year, you may request us to review the insured person’s rating to see if they qualify for a reduction in future administrative charges. Any such change will be based upon our general underwriting rules in effect at the time of application, and may include various criteria.

• Cost of insurance charge.  The cost of insurance rates vary depending on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the individual characteristics of the insured, the face amount and the policy year. The monthly cost of insurance charge is determined by multiplying the cost of insurance rate that is then applicable to your policy by the amount we have at risk under your policy divided by $1,000. Our amount at risk (also described in your policy as “net amount at risk”) on any date is the difference between (a) the death benefit that would be payable if the insured person died on that date and (b) the then total account value under the policy. A greater amount at risk, or a higher cost of insurance rate, will result in a higher monthly charge. The cost of insurance rates are intended, in part, to compensate us for the cost of providing insurance to you under your policy.

Generally, the cost of insurance rate increases from one policy year to the next. This happens automatically because of the insured person’s increasing age.

On a guaranteed basis, we may deduct between $0.01 and $83.34 per $1,000 of the amount for which we are at risk under your policy from your policy account value each month (but not beyond the policy anniversary date when the insured person is attained age 121). As the amount for which we are at risk at any time is the death benefit (calculated as of that time) minus your policy account value at that time, changes in your policy account value resulting from the performance of your investment options can affect your amount at risk, and as a result, your cost of insurance. In addition, our current non-guaranteed cost of insurance rates are zero for policy years in which the insured person’s attained age is 100 or older. Our cost of insurance rates are guaranteed not to exceed the maximum rates specified in your policy. For most insured persons at most ages, our current (non-guaranteed) rates are lower than the maximum rates. Subject to any necessary regulatory approvals, we have the ability to raise these rates up to the guaranteed maximum at any time.

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The guaranteed maximum cost of insurance rates for gender neutral policies for insureds are based on the 2017 Commissioner’s Standard Ordinary 80% Male, 20% Female, Composite Ultimate Age Nearest Birthday Mortality Table. For all other policies, the guaranteed maximum cost of insurance rates are based on the 2017 Commissioner’s Standard Ordinary Male or Female, Composite Ultimate Age Nearest Birthday Mortality Tables.

Our cost of insurance rates will generally be lower (except for gender-neutral policies and in connection with certain employee benefit plans) if the insured person is a female than if a male. They also will generally be lower for non-tobacco users than tobacco users and lower for persons that have other highly favorable health characteristics, as compared to those that do not. On the other hand, insured persons who present particular health, occupational or avocational risks may be charged higher cost of insurance rates and other additional charges as specified in their policies. In addition, the current (non-guaranteed) rates also vary depending on the duration of the policy (i.e., the length of time since the policy was issued).

We offer lower rates for non-tobacco users only. You may generally ask us to review the tobacco habits of an insured person to change the charge from tobacco user rates to non-tobacco user rates. The change, if approved, may result in lower future cost of insurance rates beginning on the effective date of the change to non-tobacco user rates.

The change will be based upon our general underwriting rules in effect at the time of application, and may include criteria other than tobacco use status as well as a definition of tobacco use different from that applicable at the time this policy was issued.

Similarly, after the first policy year, you may request us to review the insured person’s rating to see if they qualify for a reduction in future cost of insurance rates. Any such change will be based upon our general underwriting rules in effect at the time of application, and may include various criteria.

For information concerning possible limitations on any changes, please see “Other information” in “Tax information” in this prospectus.

The change in rates, if approved, will take effect at the beginning of the policy month that coincides with or next follows the date we approve your request. This change may have adverse tax consequences.

• Mortality and expense risk charge.  We will collect a monthly charge for mortality and expense risk. We are committed to fulfilling our obligations under the policy and providing service to you over the lifetime of your policy. Despite the uncertainty of future events, we guarantee that monthly administrative and cost of insurance deductions from your policy account value will never be greater than the maximum amounts shown in “Fee Table” under “Important information you should consider about the policy” in this prospectus. In making this guarantee, we assume the mortality risk that insured persons (as a group)

will live for shorter periods than we estimated. When this happens, we have to pay a greater amount of death benefit than we expected to pay in relation to the cost of insurance charges we received. We also assume the expense risks that the cost of issuing and administering policies will be greater than we expected. This charge is designed, in part, to compensate us for taking these risks.

We will deduct a monthly mortality and expense risk charge which will be calculated as a percentage of the value in your policy’s variable investment options and the Market Stabilizer Option®, if applicable. Currently, this charge is 0.40% during policy years 1-8 and 0.05% during policy years 9 and later. We reserve the right to increase or decrease this charge in the future, although it will never exceed 1.00% during policy years 1-10 and 0.50% during policy years 11 and later. This charge will be calculated at the beginning of each policy month as a percentage of the amount of policy account that is then allocated to the variable investment options.

• Loan interest spread.  We charge interest on policy loans but credit you with interest on the amount of the policy account value we hold as collateral for the loan. The loan interest spread is the excess of the interest rate we charge over the interest rate we credit. The loan interest spread is currently 1.0% for policy years 1-10 and 0% for policy year 11 and later. The loan interest spread will not exceed 1% except for amounts allocated to MSO segment where the loan interest spread will not exceed 5%. We deduct this charge on each policy anniversary date, or on loan termination, if earlier. For more information on how this charge is deducted, see “Borrowing from your policy” under “Death benefits and accessing your money” in this prospectus. As with any loan, the interest we charge on the loans is intended, in part, to compensate us for the time value of the money we are lending and the risk that you will not repay the loan.

MSO Charges

There is currently a 0.40% (effective annual rate) charge on any policy account value allocated to each Segment (this charge is called the “Variable Index Segment Account Charge”). The Variable Index Segment Account Charge is guaranteed to never exceed 1.65% (effective annual rate). This charge (of the current Segment Account Value) is deducted from the policy account on a monthly basis during the Segment Term.

An Early Distribution Adjustment will be applied on surrender or other distribution (including loan) from an MSO Segment prior to its Segment Maturity Date. The maximum Early Distribution Adjustment is 90% of Segment Account Value.

Please refer to the MSO prospectus for more information about the MSO and related charges.

Optional rider charges

If you elect the following riders, the charge for each rider is deducted from your policy account value on the first day of each policy month that the rider is in effect. The rider

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charges are designed to offset the cost of providing the benefit under the rider. The costs of each of the riders below are designed, in part, to compensate us for the additional insurance risk we take on in providing each of these riders and the administrative costs involved in administering them.

• Policy Continuation Rider. There is no charge for this rider unless and until it is exercised. If this rider is exercised, there is a one-time charge. This charge is equal to the policy account value on the date this rider is exercised multiplied by the Policy Continuation Charge Rate shown in your policy. This rate is based on the age of the insured person on the date this rider is exercised. The maximum rate for a policy is 13.10%.

• Charitable Legacy Rider.  There is no additional charge if you choose this rider.

• Adding the Living Benefits Rider.  If you elect the Living Benefits Rider after the policy is issued, we will deduct $100 from your policy account value at the time of the transaction. This fee is designed, in part, to compensate us for the administrative costs involved in processing the request.

• Exercise of option to receive a terminal illness “living benefit.”  If you elect to receive a terminal illness “living benefit,” we will deduct up to $250 from any living benefit we pay. This fee is designed, in part, to compensate us for the administrative costs involved in processing the request.

• No-Lapse Guarantee Rider.  There is no additional charge for this rider.

Charges that the Trusts deduct

The Trusts deduct charges for the following types of fees and expenses:

• Management fees.

• 12b-1 fees.

• Operating expenses, such as trustees’ fees, independent public accounting firms’ fees, legal counsel fees, administrative service fees, custodian fees and liability insurance.

• Investment-related expenses, such as brokerage commissions.

These charges are reflected in the daily share price of each portfolio. Since shares of each Trust are purchased at their net asset value, these fees and expenses are, in effect, passed on to the variable investment options and are reflected in their unit values before the Investment Expense Reduction is applied. Certain portfolios available under the contract in turn invest in shares of other portfolios of EQ Premier VIP Trust and EQ Advisors Trust and/or shares of unaffiliated portfolios (collectively, the “underlying portfolios”). The underlying portfolios each have their own fees and expenses, including management fees, operating expenses, and investment related expenses such as brokerage commissions. For more information about these charges, please refer to the prospectuses for the Trusts.

Investment Expense Reduction

We will apply an expense reduction in the calculation of the daily unit values of each variable investment option of our separate account (the “Investment Expense Reduction”). The Investment Expense Reduction for each variable investment option will be determined based upon the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses of each variable investment option’s corresponding Portfolio. The Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense is defined as the Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense after the application of any contractual expense limitation arrangements that are in place for more than one year.

The Investment Expense Reduction for each variable investment option will be initially determined and then annually updated, based upon the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense of each variable investment option’s corresponding Portfolio either (1) as shown in the annual Portfolio prospectuses dated on or about May 1st of each calendar year, for existing Portfolios which are effective as of that date; or (2) as shown in the initial effective Portfolio prospectuses, for new portfolios that become effective after that date, as applicable. The Investment Expense Reduction will be calculated based upon which of the three ranges (less than 0.80%, 0.80% through 1.15%, or greater than 1.15%) in the table below that the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense falls into. The ranges and formula amounts shown in the table below will not change while your policy remains in effect.

During the year, the Investment Expense Reduction will be applied daily and will be equal to the daily equivalent of the annual Investment Expense Reduction percentage that is defined in the table below. You should be aware that actual portfolio operating expenses will generally fluctuate daily, so after the application of the Investment Expense Reduction, the resulting expenses you pay may increase or decrease from one day to the next. In addition, the Investment Expense Reduction for each variable investment option is not intended to exceed the portion of the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses of each variable investment option’s corresponding Portfolio applied as of the day each unit value is calculated.

For example, if the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense of a Portfolio is shown as 0.75% in the applicable Portfolio prospectus, then the annual Investment Expense Reduction would be calculated based upon the row of the table below that is labeled “Less than 0.80%,” and therefore the annual Investment Expense Reduction for the variable investment option investing in that Portfolio would be 0.35% (the greater of 0.15% and the excess of 0.75% over 0.40%). Furthermore, in this example, if the actual Net Total Portfolio Operating Expenses on any given day were below the daily equivalent of 0.35% annually, the Investment Expense Reduction for that day would not exceed the actual Net Total Portfolio Operating Expenses for that day.

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If the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses (before the Investment Expense Reduction) are:	Then the annual Investment Expense Reduction(**) for that variable investment option will be:
Less than 0.80%	The amount equal to the greater of 0.15% and any excess of the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense over 0.40%. However, in no event will the annual Investment Expense Reduction exceed the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses.
0.80% through 1.15%	The amount equal to the greater of 0.15% and any excess of the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense over 0.80%. However, in no event will the annual Investment Expense Reduction exceed the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses.
Greater than 1.15%	0.15%

** Because the expenses contained in the Trust prospectus for each Portfolio reflect annual expenses, the actual expenses incurred may be higher or lower on any given day.

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10. More information about procedures that apply to your policy

This section provides further detail about certain subjects that are addressed in the previous pages. The following discussion generally does not repeat the information already contained in those pages.

Your right to cancel within a certain number of days

You may cancel your policy by returning the policy along with a properly signed and completed written request for cancellation to our Administrative Office or, in some states, to the agent who sold it to you or any agent of the Company by the 10th day after you receive it (or such longer period as required under state law). Your coverage will terminate as of the business day we receive your request at our Administrative Office (or, in some states, as of the business day the agent receives your request).

In most states, we will refund the policy account value calculated as of the business day we receive your request for cancellation at our Administrative Office (or, in some states, as of the business day the agent receives your request), plus any charges that were deducted from premiums that were paid and from the policy account value, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. In other states, we will refund the premiums that were paid, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. Your policy will set forth the specific terms of your “Right to Examine” the policy.

Canceling your policy if you have allocated to the MSO If you have allocated policy amounts to the MSO, different procedures may apply. Please see “Your right to cancel within a certain number of days” in the “Description of the Market Stabilizer Option^®” section of the MSO Prospectus for more information about canceling your policy.

In addition to the cancellation right described above, you have the right to surrender your policy, rather than cancel it. Please see “Surrendering your policy for its net cash surrender value,” in this prospectus. Surrendering your policy may yield results different than canceling your policy, including a greater potential for taxable income. In some cases, your cash value upon surrender may be greater than your contributions to the policy. Please see “Tax information,” in this prospectus for possible consequences of cancelling your policy.

Dates and prices at which policy events occur

We describe below the general rules for when, and at what prices, events under your policy will occur. Other portions of this prospectus describe circumstances that may cause exceptions. We generally do not repeat those exceptions below.

Date of receipt.  Where this prospectus refers to the day when we receive a payment, request, election, notice, transfer or any other transaction request from you, we usually

mean the day on which that item (or the last thing necessary for us to process that item) arrives in complete and proper form at our Administrative Office or via the appropriate telephone or fax number if the item is a type we accept by those means. There are two main exceptions: if the item arrives (1) on a day that is not a business day or (2) after the close of a business day, then, in each case, we are deemed to have received that item on the next business day.

Business day.  Our “business day” is generally any day the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open for regular trading and generally ends at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (or as of an earlier close of regular trading). A business day does not include a day on which we are not open due to emergency conditions determined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. We may also close early due to such emergency conditions. We compute unit values for our variable investment options as of the end of each business day. In addition, the Investment Expense Reduction is applied to reduce the expenses when calculating the daily unit value for each variable investment option as of that day’s close of business, and if that day is not a business day, using the unit values computed as of the next business day’s close.

Third party agreements.  If we have entered into a prior written agreement that authorizes your financial professional to submit transfer requests and/or changes to allocation instructions on your behalf, any such transfer request or change to allocation instructions will be considered received by us on the business day it arrives from your financial professional in complete and proper form at our Administrative Office, or via the appropriate telephone or fax number if the item is of the type we accept by those means. We may terminate any such agreement at any time without prior notice.

Payments you make.  The following are reflected in your policy as of the date we receive them in complete and proper form:

• premium payments received after the policy’s investment start date (discussed below)

• loan repayments and interest payments

Requests you make.  The following transactions occur as of the date we receive your request in complete and proper form:

• withdrawals

• tax withholding elections

• face amount decreases that result from a withdrawal

• changes of allocation percentages for premium payments or monthly deductions

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• surrenders

• changes of owner

• changes of beneficiary

• transfers from a variable investment option to the guaranteed interest option

• loans

• transfers among variable investment options

• assignments

• policy cancellation

The following transactions occur on your policy’s next monthly anniversary that coincides with or follows the date we approve your request:

• changes in face amount

• restoration of terminated policies

• termination of any additional benefit riders you have elected

Automatic transfer service.  Transfers pursuant to our automatic transfer service (dollar-cost averaging) occur as of the first day of each policy month. If you request the automatic transfer service in your original policy application, the first transfer will occur as of the first day of the second policy month after your policy’s initial Allocation Date. If you request this service at any later time, we make the first such transfer as of your policy’s first monthly anniversary that coincides with or follows the date we receive your request.

Asset rebalancing service.  If you request the asset rebalancing service, the first redistribution will be on the date you specify or the date we receive your request, if later. However, no rebalancing will occur before your policy’s Allocation Date. Subsequent periodic rebalancings occur quarterly, semiannually or annually, as you have requested.

Delay in certain cases.  We may delay any transfer, for the same reasons stated in “Delay of variable investment option proceeds” in this prospectus. We may also delay such transactions for any other legally permitted purpose.

Prices applicable to policy transactions.  If a transaction will increase or decrease the amount you have in a variable investment option as of a certain date, we process the transaction using the unit values for that option computed as of that day’s close of business, unless that day is not a business day. In that case, we use unit values computed as of the next business day’s close.

Effect of death or surrender.  You may not make any surrender or partial withdrawal request after the insured person has died. Also, all insurance coverage ends on the date as of which we process any request for a surrender.

Policy issuance

Register date.  When we issue a policy, we assign it a “register date,” which will be shown in the policy. We measure the months, years, and anniversaries of your policy from your policy’s register date.

• If you submit the full minimum initial premium to your financial professional at the time you sign the application and before the policy is issued, and we issue the policy as it was applied for (or on a better risk class than applied for), then the register date will be the later of (a) the date you signed part I, section D of the policy application or (b) the date a medical or paramedical professional signed part II of the policy application.

• In general, if we do not receive your full minimum initial premium at our Administrative Office before the issue date or, if we issue the policy on a different (less favorable) basis than you applied for, the register date initially will appear on your policy as the date the policy is issued; however, we will move the register date to the date we deliver the policy provided we received your full minimum initial premium. If your policy was delivered on the 29th, 30th or 31st of the month, we will move the register date to the 1st of the following month. In certain circumstances, even if we issue your policy on a less favorable basis, the premium amount you paid may be sufficient to cover your full minimum initial premium. In this event, we will not move the register date to the delivery date. These procedures are designed to ensure that premiums and charges will commence on the same date as your insurance coverage. We will determine the interest rate applicable to the guaranteed interest option based on the register date. This rate will be applied to funds allocated to the guaranteed interest option as of the date we receive the full minimum initial premium at our Administrative Office.

• For Section 1035 exchanges:

• If you submit the full initial premium to your financial professional at the time you sign the application, and we issue the policy as it was applied for, then the register date will be the later of (a), the date you signed part I, section D of the policy application, or (b) the date a medical professional signed part II of the policy application.

• If we do not receive your full initial premium payment at our Administrative Office before the issue date, or we issue the policy on a different (less favorable) basis than you applied for, the register date will be:

• For Internal 1035 exchanges — your original policy will be surrendered as of the date the new policy is approved by the underwriter, and the register date of the new policy will be the same date.

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• For External 1035 exchanges — the date we receive the 1035 exchange check from the external carrier, provided it meets the minimum initial premium requirement, otherwise the register date will be the date we deliver the policy to you provided we received your full minimum initial premium. If we received your full minimum initial premium or your policy was delivered on the 29th, 30th, or 31st of the month, we will move the register date to the 28th of the month.

We may also permit an earlier than customary register date (a) for employer-sponsored cases, to accommodate a common register date for all employees or (b) to provide a younger age at issue. (A younger age at issue reduces the monthly charges that we deduct under a policy.) The charges and deductions commence as of the register date, even when we have permitted an early register date. We may also permit policy owners to delay a register date (up to three months) in employer-sponsored cases.

Investment start date.  This is the business day your investment first begins to earn a return for you. Generally, this is the later of: (1) the business day we receive the full minimum initial premium at our Administrative Office; and (2) the register date of your policy. Before this date, your initial premium will be held in a non-interest bearing account.

Commencement of insurance coverage.  You must give the full minimum initial premium to your financial professional on or before the day the policy and all amendments are delivered to you. No insurance under your policy will take effect unless (1) the insured person is still living at the time such payment and all delivery requirements are completed and (2) the information in the application continues to be true and complete, without material change, as of the date the policy and all amendments are delivered to you and all delivery requirements have been completed and the full minimum initial premium is paid. If you submit the full minimum initial premium with your application, we may, subject to certain conditions, provide a limited amount of temporary insurance on the proposed insured person. You may request and review a copy of our temporary insurance agreement for more information about the terms and conditions of that coverage.

Non-issuance.  If, after considering your application, we decide not to issue a policy, we will refund any premium you have paid, without interest.

Age; age at issue.  Unless the context in this prospectus requires otherwise, we consider the insured person’s “age” during any policy year to be his or her age on his or her birthday nearest to the beginning of that policy year. For example, the insured person’s age for the first policy year (“age at issue”) is that person’s age on whichever birthday is closer to (i.e., before or after) the policy’s register date.

Ways to make premium and loan payments

Checks and money orders.  Premiums or loan payments generally must be paid by check or money order drawn on a U.S. bank in U.S. dollars and made payable to “Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company.”

We prefer that you make each payment to us with a single check drawn on your business or personal bank account. We also will accept a single money order, bank draft or cashier’s check payable directly to the Company, although we must report such “cash equivalent” payments to the Internal Revenue Service under certain circumstances. Cash and travelers’ checks, or any payments in foreign currency, are not acceptable. We will accept third-party checks payable to someone other than the Company and endorsed over to the Company only (1) as a direct payment from a qualified retirement plan or (2) if they are made out to a trustee who owns the policy and endorses the entire check (without any refund) as a payment to the policy.

Assigning your policy

You may assign (transfer) your rights in a policy to someone else as collateral for a loan, to effect a change of ownership or for some other reason. Collateral assignments may also sometimes be used in connection with dividing the benefits of the policy under a split-dollar arrangement, which will also have its own tax consequences. A copy of the assignment must be forwarded to our Administrative Office. We are not responsible for any payment we make or any action we take before we receive notice of the assignment or for the validity of the assignment. An absolute assignment is a change of ownership.

Certain transfers for value may subject you to income tax and penalties and cause the death benefit to lose its income-tax free treatment. Further, a gift of a policy that has a loan outstanding may be treated as part gift and part transfer for value, which could result in both gift tax and income tax consequences. The IRS issued regulations in both 2002 and 2003 concerning split-dollar arrangements, including policies subject to collateral assignments. The regulations provide both new and interim guidance as to the taxation of such arrangements. These regulations address taxation issues in connection with arrangements which are compensatory in nature, involve a shareholder and corporation, or a donor and donee. See also discussion under “Split-dollar and other employee benefit programs” and “Estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes” in the “Tax information” section of this prospectus. You should consult your tax advisor prior to making a transfer or assignment.

Requirements for surrender requests

Your surrender request must include the policy number, your name, your taxpayer identification number, the name of the insured person, and the address where proceeds should be mailed. The request must be signed by you, as the owner, and by any joint owner, collateral assignee or irrevocable beneficiary. We may also require you to complete specific tax forms,

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other documentation we require, and provide a representation that your policy is not being exchanged for another life or annuity contract.

Gender-neutral policies

Congress and various states have from time to time considered legislation that would require insurance rates to be the same for males and females. In addition, employers and employee organizations should consider, in consultation with counsel, the impact of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on the purchase of the policy in connection with an employment-related insurance or benefit plan. In a 1983 decision, the United States Supreme Court held that, under Title VII, optional annuity benefits under a deferred compensation plan could not vary on the basis of sex.

There will be no distinctions based on sex in the cost of insurance rates for the policies sold in Montana. We will also make such gender-neutral policies available on request in connection with certain employee benefit plans. Cost of insurance rates applicable to a gender-neutral policy will not be greater than the comparable male rates under a gender specific policy.

Future policy exchanges

We may at some future time, under certain circumstances and subject to applicable law, allow the current owner of this policy to exchange it for a universal life policy we are then offering. The exchange may or may not be advantageous to you, based on all of the circumstances, including a comparison of contractual terms and conditions and charges and deductions. We will provide additional information upon request at such time as exchanges may be permitted.

Broker transaction authority

After your policy has been issued, we may accept transfer requests and changes to your premium allocation instructions or fund transfers by telephone, mail, facsimile or electronically, and requests for automatic transfer service and asset rebalancing service in writing, by mail or facsimile, from your financial professional, provided that we have your prior written authorization to do so on file. Accordingly, the Company will rely on the stated identity of the person placing instructions as authorized to do so on your behalf. The Company will not be liable for any claim, loss, liability or expenses that may arise out of such instructions. The Company will continue to rely on this authorization until it receives your written notification at its processing office that you have withdrawn this authorization. The Company may change or terminate telephone or electronic or overnight mail transfer procedures at any time without prior notice and restrict facsimile, internet, telephone and other electronic transfer services because of disruptive transfer activity. The Company may terminate any such authorization at any time without prior notice.

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11. More information about other matters

About our general account

This policy is offered to customers through various financial institutions, brokerage firms and their affiliate insurance agencies. No financial institution, brokerage firm or insurance agency has any liability with respect to a policy’s account value or any guaranteed benefits with which the policy was issued. The Company is solely responsible to the policy owner for the policy’s account value and such guaranteed benefits. The general obligations and any guaranteed benefits under the policy are supported by the Company’s general account and are subject to the Company’s claims paying ability. An owner should look to the financial strength of the Company for its claims paying ability. Assets in the general account are not segregated for the exclusive benefit of any particular policy or obligation. General account assets are also available to the insurer’s general creditors and the conduct of its routine business activities, such as the payment of salaries, rent and other ordinary business expenses. For more information about the Company’s financial strength, you may review its financial statements and/or check its current rating with one or more of the independent sources that rate insurance companies for their financial strength and stability. Such ratings are subject to change and have no bearing on the performance of the variable investment options. You may also speak with your financial representative.

The general account is subject to regulation and supervision by the New York State Department of Financial Services and to the insurance laws and regulations of all jurisdictions where we are authorized to do business. Interests under the policies in the general account have not been registered and are not required to be registered under the Securities Act of 1933 because of exemptions and exclusionary provisions that apply. The general account is not required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and it is not registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The policy is a “covered security” under the federal securities laws.

The disclosure with regard to the general account is subject to certain provisions of the federal securities law relating to the accuracy and completeness of statements made in prospectuses.

Transfers of your policy account value

Transfers not implemented.  If a request cannot be fully administered, only the part that is in good order will be processed. Any part of the request that cannot be processed will be denied and an explanation will be provided to you. This could occur, for example, where the request does not comply with our transfer limitations, or where you request transfer of an amount greater than that currently allocated to an investment option.

Similarly, the automatic transfer service will terminate immediately if: (1) your amount in the EQ/Money Market option is insufficient to cover the automatic transfer amount; (2) your policy is in a grace period; or (3) we receive notice of the insured person’s death. Similarly, the asset rebalancing program will terminate if either (2) or (3) occurs.

Disruptive transfer activity.  You should note that the policy is not designed for professional “market timing” organizations, or other organizations or individuals engaging in a market timing strategy. The policy is not designed to accommodate programmed transfers, frequent transfers or transfers that are large in relation to the total assets of the underlying portfolio.

Frequent transfers, including market timing and other program trading or short-term trading strategies, may be disruptive to the underlying portfolios in which the variable investment options invest. Disruptive transfer activity may adversely affect performance and the interests of long-term investors by requiring a portfolio to maintain larger amounts of cash or to liquidate portfolio holdings at a disadvantageous time or price. For example, when market timing occurs, a portfolio may have to sell its holdings to have the cash necessary to redeem the market timer’s investment. This can happen when it is not advantageous to sell any securities, so the portfolio’s performance may be hurt. When large dollar amounts are involved, market timing can also make it difficult to use long-term investment strategies because a portfolio cannot predict how much cash it will have to invest. In addition, disruptive transfers or purchases and redemptions of portfolio investments may impede efficient portfolio management and impose increased transaction costs, such as brokerage costs, by requiring the portfolio manager to effect more frequent purchases and sales of portfolio securities. Similarly, a portfolio may bear increased administrative costs as a result of the asset level and investment volatility that accompanies patterns of excessive or short-term trading. Portfolios that invest a significant portion of their assets in foreign securities or the securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies tend to be subject to the risks associated with market timing and short-term trading strategies to a greater extent than portfolios that do not. Securities trading in overseas markets present time zone arbitrage opportunities when events affecting portfolio securities values occur after the close of the overseas market but prior to the close of the U.S. markets. Securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies present arbitrage opportunities because the market for such securities may be less liquid than the market for securities of larger companies, which could result in pricing inefficiencies. Please see the prospectuses for the underlying portfolios for more information on how portfolio shares are priced.

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We currently use the procedures described below to discourage disruptive transfer activity. You should understand, however, that these procedures are subject to the following limitations: (1) they primarily rely on the policies and procedures implemented by the underlying portfolios; (2) they do not eliminate the possibility that disruptive transfer activity, including market timing, will occur or that portfolio performance will be affected by such activity; and (3) the design of market timing procedures involves inherently subjective judgments, which we seek to make in a fair and reasonable manner consistent with the interests of all policy owners.

We offer investment options with underlying portfolios that are part of EQ Premier VIP Trust and EQ Advisors Trust (together, the “affiliated trusts”), as well as investment options with underlying portfolios of outside trusts with which the Company has entered participation agreements (the “unaffiliated trusts” and, collectively with the affiliated trusts, the “trusts”). The affiliated trusts have adopted policies and procedures regarding disruptive transfer activity. They discourage frequent purchases and redemptions of portfolio shares and will not make special arrangements to accommodate such transactions. They aggregate inflows and outflows for each portfolio on a daily basis. On any day when a portfolio’s net inflows or outflows exceed an established monitoring threshold, the affiliated trust obtains from us policy owner trading activity. The affiliated trusts currently consider transfers into and out of (or vice versa) the same variable investment option within a five business day period as potentially disruptive transfer activity.

When a policy is identified in connection with potentially disruptive transfer activity for the first time, a letter is sent to the policy owner explaining that the Company has a policy against disruptive transfer activity and that if such activity continues, certain transfer privileges may be eliminated. If and when the policy owner is identified a second time as engaged in potentially disruptive transfer activity under the policy, we currently prohibit the use of voice, fax and automated transaction services. We currently apply such action for the remaining life of each affected policy. We or a trust may change the definition of potentially disruptive transfer activity, the monitoring procedures and thresholds, any notification procedures, and the procedures to restrict this activity. Any new or revised policies and procedures will apply to all policy owners uniformly. We do not permit exceptions to our policies restricting disruptive transfer activity.

Each unaffiliated trust may have its own policies and procedures regarding disruptive transfer activity. If an unaffiliated trust advises us that there may be disruptive activity from one of our policy owners, we will work with the unaffiliated trust to review policy owner trading activity. Each trust reserves the right to reject a transfer that it believes, in its sole discretion, is disruptive (or potentially disruptive) to the management of one of its portfolios. Please see the prospectuses for the trusts for more information.

It is possible that a trust may impose a redemption fee designed to discourage frequent or disruptive trading by

policy owners. As of the date of this prospectus, the trusts had not implemented such a fee. If a redemption fee is implemented by a trust, that fee, like any other trust fee, will be borne by the policy owner.

Policy owners should note that it is not always possible for us and the underlying trusts to identify and prevent disruptive transfer activity. In addition, because we do not monitor for all frequent trading at the separate account level, policy owners may engage in frequent trading which may not be detected, for example, due to low net inflows or outflows on the particular day(s). Therefore, no assurance can be given that we or the trusts will successfully impose restrictions on all potentially disruptive transfers. Because there is no guarantee that disruptive trading will be stopped, some policy owners may be treated differently than others, resulting in the risk that some policy owners may be able to engage in frequent transfer activity while others will bear the effect of that frequent transfer activity. The potential effects of frequent transfer activity are discussed above.

Telephone and Internet requests

If you are a properly authorized person, you may make transfers between investment options over the Internet as described in this prospectus in “How to make transfers” under “Transferring your money among our investment options.”

Also, you may make the following additional types of requests by calling the number under “By Phone:” in “How to reach us” from a touch-tone phone, if the policy is individually owned and you are the owner, or through www.equitable.com if you are the individual owner:

• changes of premium allocation percentages

• changes of address

• request forms and statements

• to request a policy loan (loan requests cannot be made online by corporate policy owners)

• enroll for electronic delivery and view statements/documents online

• to pay your premium or make a loan repayment

For security purposes, all telephone requests are automatically tape-recorded and are invalid if the information given is incomplete or any portion of the request is inaudible. We have established procedures reasonably designed to confirm that telephone instructions are genuine.

If you wish to enroll through www.equitable.com, you must first agree to the terms and conditions set forth in our www.equitable.com Online Services Agreement, which you can find at our website. We will send you a confirmation letter by first class mail. Additionally, you will be required to use a password and protect it from unauthorized use. We will provide subsequent written confirmation of any transactions. We will assume that all instructions received through

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www.equitable.com are given by you; however, we reserve the right to refuse to process any transaction and/or block access to www.equitable.com if we have reason to believe the instructions given are unauthorized.

If we do not employ reasonable procedures to confirm the genuineness of telephone or Internet instructions, we may be liable for any losses arising out of any act or omission that constitutes negligence, lack of good faith, or willful misconduct. In light of our procedures, we will not be liable for following telephone or Internet instructions that we reasonably believe to be genuine.

We reserve the right to refuse to process any telephone or Internet transactions if we have reason to believe that the request compromises the general security and/or integrity of our automated systems (see discussion of “Disruptive transfer activity” above).

Any telephone, Internet or fax transaction request that is not completed by the close of a business day (which is usually 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time) will be processed as of the next business day. During times of extreme market activity, or for other reasons, you may be unable to contact us to make a telephone or Internet request. If this occurs, you should submit a written transaction request to our Administrative Office. We reserve the right to discontinue telephone or Internet transactions, or modify the procedures and conditions for such transactions, without notifying you, at any time.

COVID-19

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. Equity and financial markets have experienced increased volatility and negative returns, and interest rates have declined due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other market factors. Such events can adversely impact us and our operations. Management believes the Company is taking appropriate actions to mitigate the negative impact to our business and operations. However, the full impact of COVID-19 is unknown and cannot be reasonably estimated or predicted at this time as these events are still developing.

Moreover, these market conditions have impacted the performance of the funds underlying the variable investment options. If these market conditions continue, and depending on your individual circumstances (e.g., your selected investment options and the timing of any contributions, transfers, or withdrawals), you may experience (perhaps significant) negative returns under the policy. The duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the future impact that the pandemic may have on the financial markets and global economy, cannot be foreseen, however. You should consult with a financial professional about how the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent market conditions may impact your future investment decisions related to the policy, such as purchasing the policy or making contributions, transfers, or withdrawals, based on your individual circumstances.

Cybersecurity risks and catastrophic events

We rely heavily on interconnected computer systems and digital data to conduct our variable product business. Because our variable product business is highly dependent upon the effective operation of our computer systems and those of our business partners, our business is vulnerable to disruptions from utility outages, and susceptible to operational and information security risks resulting from information systems failure (e.g., hardware and software malfunctions), and cyber-attacks. These risks include, among other things, the theft, misuse, corruption and destruction of data maintained online or digitally, interference with or denial of service, attacks on websites and other operational disruption and unauthorized use or abuse of confidential customer information. Systems failures and cyberattacks, as well as, any other catastrophic event, including natural and manmade disasters, public health emergencies, pandemic diseases, terrorist attacks, floods or severe storms affecting us, any third-party administrator, the underlying funds, intermediaries and other affiliated or third-party service providers may adversely affect us, our business operations and your account value. Systems failures and cyber-attacks may also interfere with our processing of contract transactions, including the processing of orders from our website or with the underlying funds, impact our ability to calculate account values, cause the release and possible destruction of confidential customer or business information, impede order processing, subject us and/or our service providers and intermediaries to regulatory fines and financial losses and/or cause reputational damage. In addition, the occurrence of any pandemic disease (like COVID-19), natural disaster, terrorist attack or any other event that results in our workforce, and/or employees of service providers and/or third party administrators, being compromised and unable or unwilling to fully perform their responsibilities, could likewise result in interruptions in our service, including our ability to issue contracts and process contract transactions. Even if our workforce and employees of our service providers and/or third party administrators were able to work remotely, those remote work arrangements could result in our business operations being less efficient than under normal circumstances and lead to delays in our issuing contracts and processing of other contract-related transactions. Cybersecurity risks and catastrophic events may also impact the issuers of securities in which the underlying funds invest, which may cause the funds underlying your contract to lose value. While there can be no assurance that we or the underlying funds or our service providers will avoid losses affecting your contract due to cyber-attacks, information security breaches or other catastrophic events in the future, we take reasonable steps to mitigate these risks and secure our systems and business operations from such failures, attacks and events.

Suicide and certain misstatements

If the insured person commits suicide within two years after the date of issue, our liability will be limited to the payment

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of a single sum. This sum will be equal to the premiums paid, minus any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest or liens and minus any partial withdrawal.

If the insured person commits suicide within two years after the effective date of any policy restoration, our liability will be limited to the payment of a single sum. This sum will be equal to the premiums paid on and after the effective date of restoration, minus any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest or liens and minus any partial withdrawal.

If the insured person commits suicide within two years after the effective date of a change that you asked for that increases the death benefit, then our liability as to the increase in amount will be limited to the payment of a single sum equal to the monthly cost of insurance deductions and any monthly administrative charge deductions made for such increase.

If the insured person’s age or sex has been misstated on any application, and we become aware of this fact while the insured person is alive, we will make a retrospective recalculation of the policy account. Future monthly deductions from the policy account will be based upon the rates for the correct age and sex. If the insured person’s age or sex has been misstated on any application, and we become aware of this fact on or after the date of death of the insured person, the death benefit and any benefits provided by riders to this policy will be those which would be purchased by the most recent deduction for the cost of insurance, and the cost of any benefits provided by riders, at the rates for the correct age and sex.

When we pay policy proceeds

General.  We will generally pay any death benefit, surrender, withdrawal, or loan within seven days after we receive the request and any other required items.

Clearance of checks.  We reserve the right to defer payment of that portion of your policy account value that is attributable to a premium payment or loan repayment made by check for a reasonable period of time (not to exceed 15 days) to allow the check to clear the banking system.

Delay of guaranteed interest option proceeds.  We also have the right to defer payment or transfers of amounts out of our guaranteed interest option for up to six months. If we delay more than 30 days in paying you such amounts, we will pay interest of at least 3% per year from the date we receive your request.

Delay of variable investment option proceeds.  We reserve the right to defer payment of any death benefit, transfer, loan or other distribution that is derived from a variable investment option if (a) the New York Stock Exchange is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings) or trading on that exchange is restricted; (b) the SEC has declared that an emergency exists, as a result of which disposal of securities is not reasonably practicable or it is not reasonably practicable to fairly determine the policy account value; or (c) the law permits the delay for the protection of owners.

Delay to challenge coverage.  We may challenge the validity of your insurance policy or any rider based on any material misstatements in an application you have made to us. We cannot make such challenges, however, beyond certain time limits set forth in the policy or rider. If the insured person dies within one of these limits, we may delay payment of any proceeds until we decide whether to challenge the policy.

Changes we can make

In addition to any of the other changes described in this prospectus, we have the right to modify how we or Separate Account FP operate. For example, we have the right to:

• combine two or more variable investment options or withdraw assets relating to the policy from one investment option and put them into another;

• end the registration of, or re-register, Separate Account FP under the Investment Company Act of 1940;

• operate Separate Account FP under the direction of a “committee” or discharge such a committee at any time;

• restrict or eliminate any voting rights or privileges of policy owners (or other persons) that affect Separate Account FP;

• operate Separate Account FP, or one or more of the variable investment options, in any other form the law allows. This includes any form that allows us to make direct investments, in which case we may charge Separate Account FP an advisory fee. We may make any legal investments we wish for Separate Account FP. In addition, we may disapprove any change in investment advisers or in investment policy unless a law or regulation provides differently.

If we take any action that results in a material change in the underlying investments of a variable investment option, we will notify you to the extent required by law. We may, for example, cause the variable investment option to invest in a mutual fund other than, or in addition to, the Trusts. If you then wish to transfer the amount you have in that option to another investment option, you may do so.

We may make any changes in the policy or its riders, require additional premium payments, or make distributions from the policy to the extent we deem necessary to ensure that your policy qualifies or continues to qualify as life insurance for tax purposes. Any such change will apply uniformly to all policies that are affected. We will give you written notice of such changes. Subject to all applicable legal requirements, we also may make other changes in the policies that do not reduce any net cash surrender value, death benefit, policy account value, or other accrued rights or benefits.

Whether to make any of the above discussed changes is generally within our discretion, although some such changes might require us to obtain regulatory or policy owner approval. Whether regulatory or policy owner approval is required would depend on the nature of the change and, in many cases, the manner in which the change is implemented. You

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should not assume, therefore, that you necessarily will have an opportunity to approve or disapprove any such changes. We will, of course, comply with applicable legal requirements, including notice to or approval by policy owners where required in particular cases.

It is not possible to foresee all of the circumstances under which we may find it necessary or appropriate to exercise our right to make changes. Such circumstances could, however, include changes in law, or interpretations thereof; changes in financial or investment market conditions; changes in accepted methods of conducting operations in the relevant market; or a desire to achieve material operating economies or efficiencies.

Reports we will send you

Shortly after the end of each year of your policy, we will send you a report that includes information about your policy’s current death benefit, policy account value, cash surrender value (i.e., policy account value minus any current surrender charge), policy loans, policy transactions and amounts of charges deducted. We will send you individual notices to confirm your premium payments, loan repayments, transfers and certain other policy transactions. Please promptly review all statements and confirmations and notify us immediately at 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.) if there are any errors.

Distribution of the policies

The policies are distributed by both Equitable Advisors and Equitable Distributors. The Distributors serve as principal underwriters of Separate Account FP. The offering of the policies is intended to be continuous.

Equitable Advisors is an affiliate of the Company, and Equitable Distributors is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The Distributors are under the common control of Equitable Holdings, Inc. Their principal business address is 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104. The Distributors are registered with the SEC as broker-dealers and are members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). Both broker-dealers also act as distributors for other Company life and annuity products we issue.

The policies are sold by financial professionals of Equitable Advisors and its affiliates. The policies are also sold by financial professionals of unaffiliated broker-dealers that have entered into selling agreements with Equitable Distributors (“Selling broker-dealers”).

The Company pays compensation to both Distributors based on policies sold. The Company may also make additional payments to the Distributors and the Distributors may, in turn, make additional payments to certain Selling broker-dealers. All payments will be in compliance with all applicable FINRA rules and other laws and regulations.

Although the Company takes into account all of its distribution and other costs in establishing the level of fees and

charges under its policies, none of the compensation paid to the Distributors or the Selling broker-dealers discussed in this section of the prospectus are imposed as separate fees or charges under your policy. The Company, however, intends to recoup amounts it pays for distribution and other services through the fees and charges of the policy and payments it receives for providing administrative, distribution and other services to the Portfolios. For information about the fees and charges under the policy, see “More information about policy charges” in this prospectus.

As used below, the “target premium” is actuarially determined for each policy, based on that policy’s specific characteristics, as well as the policy’s face amount among other factors.

Equitable Advisors Compensation.  The Company pays compensation to Equitable Advisors based on premium payments made on the policies sold through Equitable Advisors (“premium-based compensation”). Equitable Advisors, in turn, may pay a portion of the premium-based compensation received from the Company to the Equitable Advisors financial professional and/or the Selling broker-dealer making the sale. The premium-based compensation will generally not exceed:

— 8.5% of the premiums you pay up to one target premium in your policy’s first year, plus 3.5% of all other premiums you pay in your policy’s first year;

— 14% of the premiums you pay up to one target premium in your policy’s second year, plus 5% of all other premiums you pay in your policy’s second year;

— 12.75% of the premiums you pay up to one target premium in policy years three through five, plus 5% of all other premiums you pay in your policy years three through five;

— 10.75% of the premiums you pay up to one target premium in policy years six through seven, plus 3% of all other premiums you pay in your policy years six through seven; plus

— 3% of all other premiums you pay in policy years eight through ten; plus

— 2% of all other premiums you pay in policy years eleven and later.

The compensation paid by Equitable Advisors varies among financial professionals and among Selling broker-dealers. Equitable Advisors also pays a portion of the compensation it receives to its managerial personnel. When a policy is sold by a Selling broker-dealer, the Selling broker-dealer, not Equitable Advisors, determines the amount of compensation paid to the Selling broker-dealer’s financial professional for the sale of the policy. Therefore, you should contact your financial professional for information about the compensation he or she receives and any related incentives, as described below.

Equitable Advisors may receive compensation, and, in turn, pay its financial professionals a portion of such fee, from third party investment advisors to whom its financial professionals refer customers for professional management of the assets within their policy.

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Equitable Advisors also pays its financial professionals and managerial personnel other types of compensation including service fees, expense allowance payments and health and retirement benefits. Equitable Advisors also pays its financial professionals, managerial personnel and Selling broker-dealers sales bonuses (based on selling certain products during specified periods) and persistency bonuses. Equitable Advisors may offer sales incentive programs to financial professionals and Selling broker-dealers who meet specified production levels for the sales of both the Company’s policies and policies offered by other companies. These incentives provide non-cash compensation such as stock options awards and/or stock appreciation rights, expense-paid trips, expense-paid education seminars and merchandise.

Differential compensation.  In an effort to promote the sale of the Company’s products, Equitable Advisors may pay its financial professionals and managerial personnel a greater percentage of premium-based compensation and/or asset-based compensation for the sale of our policy than it pays for the sale of a policy or other financial product issued by a company other than us. Equitable Advisors may pay different compensation on the sale of the same product, based on such factors as distribution, group or sponsored arrangements, or based on older or newer versions, or series, of the same policy. Equitable Advisors also pay different levels of compensation based on different policy types. This practice is known as providing “differential compensation.” Differential compensation may involve other forms of compensation to Equitable Advisors personnel. Certain components of the compensation paid to managerial personnel are based on whether the sales involve the Company’s policies. Managers earn higher compensation (and credits toward awards and bonuses) if the financial professionals they manage sell a higher percentage of the Company’s policies than products issued by other companies. Other forms of compensation provided to its financial professionals and/or managerial personnel include health and retirement benefits, expense reimbursements, marketing allowances and premium-based payments, known as “overrides.” For tax reasons, Equitable Advisors financial professionals qualify for health and retirement benefits based solely on their sales of the Company’s policies and products sponsored by affiliates.

The fact that Equitable Advisors financial professionals receive differential compensation and additional payments may provide an incentive for those financial professionals to recommend an our policy over a policy or other financial product issued by a company not affiliated with the Company. However, under applicable rules of FINRA and other federal and state regulatory authorities, Equitable Advisors financial professionals may only recommend to you products that they reasonably believe are suitable for you and, for certain accounts depending on applicable rules, that are in your best interest, based on the facts that you have disclosed as to your other security holdings, financial situation and needs. In making any recommendation, financial professionals of Equitable Advisors may nonetheless face conflicts of interest because of the differences in compensation from one product category

to another, and because of differences in compensation among products in the same category. For more information, contact your financial professional.

Equitable Distributors Compensation.  The Company pays premium-based compensation (“compensation”) to Equitable Distributors. Premium-based compensation is paid based on the Company’s policies sold through Equitable Distributors’ Selling broker-dealers. The premium-based compensation will generally not exceed:

— 14.5% of the premiums you pay up to one target premium in your policy’s first year, plus 2.8% of all other premiums you pay in your policy’s first year; plus

— 9% of the premiums you pay up to one target premium in policy years two through seven, plus 2.8% of all other premiums you pay in your policy years two through seven; plus

— 2.8% of all other premiums you pay in policy years eight through ten.

Equitable Distributors, in turn, pays a portion of the compensation it receives to the Selling broker-dealer making the sale.

The compensation paid by Equitable Distributors varies among Selling broker-dealers.

The Selling broker-dealer, not Equitable Distributors, determines the amount of compensation paid to the Selling broker-dealer’s financial professional for the sale of the policy. Therefore, you should contact your financial professional for information about the compensation he or she receives and any related incentives, such as differential compensation paid for various products.

These payments above also include compensation to cover operating expenses and marketing services under the terms of the Company’s distribution agreements with Equitable Distributors.

Additional payments by Equitable Distributors to Selling broker-dealers.  Equitable Distributors may pay, out of its assets, certain Selling broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries additional compensation in recognition of services provided or expenses incurred. Equitable Distributors may also pay certain Selling broker-dealers or other financial intermediaries additional compensation for enhanced marketing opportunities and other services (commonly referred to as “marketing allowances”). Services for which such payments are made may include, but are not limited to, the preferred placement of the Company products on a company and/or product list; sales personnel training; product training; business reporting; technological support; due diligence and related costs; advertising, marketing and related services; conference; and/or other support services, including some that may benefit the policy owner. Payments may be based on ongoing sales, on the aggregate account value attributable to policies sold through a Selling broker-dealer or such payments may be a

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fixed amount. For certain selling broker-dealers, Equitable Distributors increases the marketing allowance as certain sales thresholds are met. Equitable Distributors may also make fixed payments to Selling broker-dealers, for example in connection with the initiation of a new relationship or the introduction of a new product.

Additionally, as an incentive for the financial professionals of Selling broker-dealers to promote the sale of the Company’s products, Equitable Distributors may increase the sales compensation paid to the Selling broker-dealer for a period of time (commonly referred to as “compensation enhancements”). Equitable Distributors also has entered into agreements with certain selling broker-dealers in which the selling broker-dealer agrees to sell certain of our policies exclusively.

These additional payments may serve as an incentive for Selling broker-dealers to promote the sale of the Company’s policies over policies and other products issued by other companies. Not all Selling broker-dealers receive additional payments, and the payments vary among Selling broker-dealers. The list below includes the names of Selling broker-dealers that we are aware (as of December 31, 2020) received additional payments. These additional payments ranged from $209.00 to $6,528,369.16. The Company and its affiliates may also have other business relationships with Selling broker-dealers, which may provide an incentive for the Selling broker-dealers to promote the sale of the Company’s policies over policies and other products issued by other companies. The list below includes any such Selling broker-dealer. For more information, ask your financial professional.

Allstate Financial Services, LLC

American Portfolios Financial Services

Ameriprise Financial Services

Avantax Investment Services, Inc.

BBVA Securities, Inc.

Cabot Lodge Securities, LLC

Cadaret, Grant & Co., Inc.

Cambridge Investment Research

Centaurus Financial, Inc.

Cetera Financial Group

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

Citizens Investment Services

Commonwealth Financial Network

Community America Financial Solution

CUNA Brokerage Services

CUSO Financial Services, L.P.

DPL Financial Partners

Equity Services Inc.

Farmer’s Financial Solution

Galt Financial Group, Inc.

Geneos Wealth Management

Gradient Securities, LLC

H. Beck, Inc.

Huntleigh Securities Corp.

Independent Financial Group, LLC

Infinex Investments Inc.

Janney Montgomery Scott LLC

Kestra Investment Services, LLC

Key Investment Services LLC

Ladenburg Thalmann Advisor Network, LLC

Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp.

Lincoln Financial Securities Corp.

Lincoln Investment Planning

Lion Street Financial

LPL Financial Corporation

Lucia Securities, LLC

MML Investors Services, LLC

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Mutual of Omaha Investment Services, Inc.

Next Financial Group, Inc.

Park Avenue Securities, LLC

PlanMember Securities Corp.

PNC Investments

Primerica Financial Services, Inc.

Pruco Securities, LLC

Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Inc.

Raymond James

RBC Capital Markets Corporation

Santander Securities Corp.

Sigma Financial Corporation

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc.

SunTrust Investment Services, Inc.

The Advisor Group (AIG)

The Huntington Investment Company

The Leaders Group, Inc.

TransAmerica Financial Advisors

U.S. Bank Center

UBS Financial Services Inc.

Valmark Securities, Inc.

Voya Financial Advisors, Inc.

Waddell & Reed, Inc.

Wells Fargo

Legal proceedings

The Company and its affiliates are parties to various legal proceedings. In our view, none of these proceedings would be considered material with respect to a policy owner’s interest in Separate Account FP, nor would any of these proceedings be likely to have a material adverse effect on Separate Account FP, our ability to meet our obligations under the policies, or the distribution of the policies.

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12. Financial statements of Separate Account FP and the Company

The financial statements of Separate Account FP, as well as the consolidated financial statements of the Company, are in the Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”).

The financial statements of the Company have relevance for the policies only to the extent that they bear upon the ability of the Company to meet its obligations under the policies. You may request an SAI by writing to our Administrative Office or by calling 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.) and requesting to speak with a customer service representative.

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13. Personalized illustrations

Illustrations of policy benefits

Hypothetical and personalized illustrations.  Illustrations are intended to show how different fees, charges and rates of return can affect the values available under a policy. Illustrations are based upon characteristics of a hypothetical insured person as well as other assumed factors. This type of illustration is called a hypothetical illustration. Illustrations can also be based upon some of the characteristics of the insured person under your policy as well as some other policy feature choices you make such as the face amount, premium payment amounts and assumed rates of return (within limits). This type of illustration is called a personalized illustration. No illustration will ever show you the actual values available under your policy at any given point in time. This is because many factors affect these values including: (i) the insured person’s characteristics; (ii) policy features you choose; (iii) actual premium payments you make; (iv) loans or withdrawals you make; and (v) actual rates of return (including the actual fees and expenses) of the underlying portfolios in which your cash value is invested. Each hypothetical or personalized illustration is accompanied by an explanation of the assumptions on which that illustration is based. Because, as discussed below, these assumptions may differ considerably, you should carefully review all of the disclosure that accompanies each illustration.

Different kinds of illustrations.  Both the hypothetical illustrations in this prospectus and personalized illustrations can reflect the investment management fees and expenses incurred in 2020 (or expected to be incurred in 2021, if such amount is expected to be higher) of the available underlying portfolios in different ways. An arithmetic illustration uses the straight average of all of the available underlying portfolios’ investment management fees and expenses. A weighted illustration computes the average of investment management fees and expenses based upon the aggregate assets in the Portfolios at the end of 2020. You may request a weighted illustration that computes the average of investment management fees and expenses of all portfolios. If you request, a weighted illustration can also illustrate an assumed percentage allocation of policy account values among the available underlying portfolios. A fund specific illustration uses only the investment management fees and expenses of a specific underlying portfolio. A historical illustration reflects the actual performance of one of the available underlying portfolios during a stated period. When reviewing a weighted or fund specific illustration you should keep in mind that the values shown may be higher than the values shown in other illustrations because the fees and expenses that are assumed may be lower than those assumed in other illustrations. When reviewing an historical

illustration you should keep in mind that values based upon past performance are no indication of what the values will be based on future performance. You may also request a personalized illustration of the guaranteed interest option that assumes a portion of net premiums allocated to the guaranteed interest option.

The effect of the expense limitation arrangements. The illustrations in this prospectus do not reflect the expense limitation arrangements. Personalized illustrations reflect the expense limitation arrangements that are in effect with respect to certain of the Portfolios. If these fees and expenses were not reduced to reflect the expense limitation arrangements, the values in the personalized illustrations would be lower.

Appendix: “Hypothetical illustrations” to this prospectus contains an arithmetic hypothetical illustration.

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Appendix: Investment options available under the policy

The following is a list of variable investment options available under the policy. More information about the variable investment options is available in the prospectuses for the Investment Options, which may be amended from time to time and can be found online at www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162723. You can request this information at no cost by calling 1-877-522-5035 or by sending an email request to EquitableFunds@dfinsolutions.com.

The current expenses and performance information below reflects fees and expenses of the variable investment options, but do not reflect the other fees and expenses that your policy may charge. Expenses would be higher and performance would be lower if these charges were included. Each variable investment option’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of future performance.

Affiliated Variable Investment Options:

Type	Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub-Adviser(s), as applicable			Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/2020)
		Current   Expenses		1 year		5 year		10 year
Specialty	1290 VT Convertible Securities - Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC (“EIMG”); SSgA Funds Management, Inc.		0.90%^		39.08%		18.19%		15.22%
Asset Allocation	1290 VT DoubleLine Dynamic Allocation - EIMG; DoubleLine Capital LP		1.20%^		13.10%		8.61%		8.80%
Fixed Income	1290 VT DoubleLine Opportunistic Bond - EIMG; DoubleLine Capital LP		0.95%^		4.26%		3.76%		4.01%
Equity	1290 VT Equity Income - EIMG; Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss LLC		0.95%^		-4.52%		1.55%		6.50%
Specialty	1290 VT GAMCO Mergers & Acquisitions - EIMG; GAMCO Asset Management, Inc.		1.30%^		-1.33%		0.66%		3.12%
Equity	1290 VT GAMCO Small Company Value - EIMG; GAMCO Asset Management, Inc.		1.07%		9.51%		4.48%		10.29%
Equity	1290 VT Low Volatility Global Equity - EIMG		0.91%^		-1.33%		4.51%		7.99%
Specialty	1290 VT Multi-Alternative Strategies - EIMG		1.65%^		4.54%		2.61%		—
Specialty	1290 VT Natural Resources - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.90%^		-15.65%		-6.96%		3.17%
Specialty	1290 VT Real Estate - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.90%^		-8.98%		1.57%		3.86%
Equity	1290 VT Small Cap Value - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Horizon Kinetics Asset Management, LLC		1.15%^		-1.51%		3.15%		8.99%
Equity	1290 VT SmartBeta Equity - EIMG; AXA Rosenberg Investment Management, LLC		1.10%^		10.95%		9.78%		11.26%
Equity	1290 VT Socially Responsible - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC		0.93%		20.01%		14.33%		14.62%
Equity	EQ/AB Small Cap Growth - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.92%		36.05%		17.01%		17.21%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Aggressive Allocation* - EIMG		1.16%		15.41%		9.45%		11.17%
Asset Allocation	EQ/All Asset Growth Allocation - EIMG		1.25%		12.29%		7.33%		9.44%
Equity	EQ/American Century Mid Cap Value - EIMG; American Century Investment Management, Inc.		1.00%^		1.32%		—		—
Equity	EQ/ClearBridge Large Cap Growth - EIMG; ClearBridge Investment, LLC		1.00%^		30.85%		19.85%		16.87%
Equity	EQ/Common Stock Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.68%^		19.76%		13.68%		14.61%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Conservative Allocation* - EIMG		1.00%^		7.35%		4.90%		4.51%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Conservative Plus Allocation* - EIMG		1.09%		9.96%		6.33%		6.51%
Fixed Income	EQ/Core Bond Index - EIMG; SSgA Funds Management, Inc.		0.65%^		6.09%		4.17%		3.06%
Equity	EQ/Emerging Markets Equity PLUS - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.; EARNST Partners, LLC		1.29%^		14.10%		4.53%		10.91%
Equity	EQ/Equity 500 Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.55%^		17.76%		13.53%		14.52%
Equity	EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends - EIMG; Franklin Advisers, Inc.		0.87%^		16.19%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/Franklin Strategic Income - EIMG; Franklin Advisers, Inc.		0.93%^		4.99%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Goldman Sachs Mid Cap Value - EIMG; Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.		1.09%^		8.46%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/Intermediate Government Bond - EIMG; SSGA Funds Management, Inc.		0.65%^		4.34%		3.08%		2.00%
Equity	EQ/International Core Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; EARNST Partners, LLC; Federated Global Investment Management Corp.; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.06%		8.45%		4.18%		7.44%

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Type	Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub-Adviser(s), as applicable			Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/2020)
		Current   Expenses		1 year		5 year		10 year
Equity	EQ/International Equity Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.79%^		3.89%		2.47%		6.26%
Equity	EQ/International Value Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Harris Associates L.P.		1.06%		4.20%		2.18%		5.81%
Equity	EQ/Invesco Comstock - EIMG; Invesco Advisers, Inc.		1.00%^		-0.77%		2.81%		8.52%
Equity	EQ/Invesco Global - EIMG; Invesco Advisers, Inc.		1.15%^		27.01%		12.95%		14.35%
Specialty	EQ/Invesco Global Real Assets - EIMG; Invesco Advisers, Inc.; Invesco Asset Management Ltd.		1.20%^		-12.22%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Janus Enterprise - EIMG; Janus Capital Management LLC		1.05%^		18.81%		16.77%		14.27%
Equity	EQ/JPMorgan Value Opportunities - EIMG; J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.		0.98%		11.09%		6.23%		11.39%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Core Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Capital International, Inc.; GQG Partners LLC.; Vaugh Nelson Investment Management		0.91%		16.36%		12.27%		13.63%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Growth Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.73%		37.36%		22.03%		20.08%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Growth Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; HS Management Partners, LLC; Loomis Sayles & Company, L.P.; Polen Capital Management, LLC; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		0.86%		31.99%		19.65%		18.48%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Value Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.75%		2.23%		5.39%		9.02%
Equity	EQ/Loomis Sayles Growth - EIMG; Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.		1.05%^		30.86%		18.60%		19.11%
Equity	EQ/MFS International Growth - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/ b/a MFS Investment Management		1.10%^		15.41%		10.01%		12.38%
Equity	EQ/MFS International Intrinsic Value - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.15%^		20.03%		—		—
Equity	EQ/MFS Mid Cap Focused Growth - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.10%^		29.76%		—		—
Specialty	EQ/MFS Technology - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.13%		46.83%		—		—
Specialty	EQ/MFS Utilities Series - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.05%^		5.55%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Mid Cap Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.72%		12.84%		7.71%		11.59%
Equity	EQ/Mid Cap Value Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Diamond Hill Capital Management, Inc.; Wellington Management Company, LLP		0.97%		4.99%		4.83%		8.77%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Moderate Allocation* - EIMG		1.08%		11.27%		6.98%		7.45%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Moderate Plus Allocation* - EIMG		1.12%		14.13%		8.47%		9.48%
Money Market	EQ/Money Market** - EIMG; BNY Mellon Investment Advisers, Inc.		0.71%		0.20%		1.00%		0.68%
Equity	EQ/Morgan Stanley Small Cap Growth - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.		1.15%^		95.74%		35.80%		27.59%
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Global Real Return - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.98%^		10.33%		5.59%		5.97%
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Real Return - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.84%^		11.28%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Total Return - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.75%^		8.58%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Ultra Short Bond - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.80%^		1.17%		1.56%		1.70%
Equity	EQ/Small Company Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.64%		19.73%		9.95%		12.81%
Equity	EQ/T. Rowe Price Growth Stock - EIMG; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		1.00%^		36.57%		20.77%		18.94%
Specialty	EQ/T. Rowe Price Health Sciences - EIMG; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		1.20%^		26.91%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Value Equity - EIMG; Aristotle Capital Management, LLC		0.92%		2.81%		5.30%		8.29%
Equity	Multimanager Aggressive Equity - EIMG; 1832 Asset Management U.S. Inc.; AllianceBernstein L.P.; ClearBridge Investments, LLC; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.; Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P.		0.98%		38.82%		22.70%		20.02%
Specialty	Multimanager Technology - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.; Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC; Wellington Management Company, LLC		1.25%^		53.26%		29.30%		26.79%

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* EQ Managed Volatility Portfolios that include the EQ volatility management strategy as part of their investment objective and/or principal investment strategy, and the EQ/affiliated Fund of Fund Portfolios that invest in Portfolios that use the EQ volatility management strategy, are identified in the chart by a “†“. See “About the Portfolios of the Trusts” for more information regarding volatility management.

** The Portfolio operates as a “government money market fund.” The Portfolio will invest at least 99.5% of its total assets in U.S. government securities, cash, and/or repurchase agreements that are fully collateralized by U.S. government securities or cash.

^ This Portfolio’s annual expenses reflect temporary fee reductions.

Unaffiliated Variable Investment Options:

Type	Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub - Adviser(s), as applicable	Current   Expenses		Average Annual Total Returns     (as of 12/31/2020)
				1 year		5 year		10 year
Asset Allocation	American Funds Insurance Series® Asset Allocation Fund - Capital Research and Management CompanySM		0.80%		12.16%		10.31%		9.68%
Equity	American Funds Insurance Series® Global Small Capitalization Fund - Capital Research and Management CompanySM		1.24%		29.39%		14.15%		9.17%
Equity	American Funds Insurance Series® New World Fund® - Capital Research and Management CompanySM		1.09%^		23.29%		13.05%		6.28%
Asset Allocation	BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. - BlackRock Advisors, LLC		1.01%^		20.79%		9.17%		6.61%
Equity	ClearBridge Variable Mid Cap - Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC; ClearBridge Investments, LLC		1.10%		15.10%		10.33%		10.76%
Fixed Income	Delaware Ivy VIP High Income(1) - Delaware Management Company; Macquarie Investment Management Austria Kapitalanlage AG; Macquarie Investment Management Europe Limited; Macquarie Investment Management Global Limited		0.97%		6.03%		7.42%		6.52%
Equity	Delaware Ivy VIP Small Cap Growth(2) - Delaware Management Company; Macquarie Funds Management Hong Kong Limited; Macquarie Investment Management Global Limited		1.15%^		37.66%		15.59%		11.15%
Asset Allocation	Fidelity® VIP Asset Manager: Growth Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.94%		16.95%		9.82%		8.27%
Equity	Fidelity® VIP Growth & Income Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.79%		7.59%		11.34%		11.37%
Equity	Fidelity® VIP Mid Cap Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.87%		17.87%		10.79%		9.22%
Equity	Fidelity® VIP Value Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.92%		6.02%		9.13%		10.20%
Equity	Franklin Small Cap Value VIP Fund - Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC		0.93%		5.19%		10.77%		9.20%
Equity	Invesco V.I. Diversified Dividend Fund - Invesco Advisers, Inc.		0.96%		-0.13%		7.35%		9.71%
Asset Allocation	Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio - Janus Capital Management LLC		0.87%		14.03%		11.53%		9.95%
Fixed Income	Lord Abbett Bond Debenture Portfolio (VC) - Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC		0.91%		7.30%		7.41%		6.44%
Specialty	PIMCO CommodityRealReturn® Strategy Portfolio - Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		1.34%^		1.23%		2.54%		-5.49%
Equity	T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio II - T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		0.99%^		0.96%		9.59%		8.94%
Equity	Templeton Developing Markets VIP Fund - Templeton Asset Management Ltd.		1.44%		17.18%		15.57%		3.66%
Specialty	Templeton Global Bond VIP Fund - Franklin Advisers, Inc.		0.74%^		-5.28%		0.66%		1.56%
Specialty	VanEck VIP Global Resources Fund - Van Eck Associates Corporation		1.38%		18.83%		5.93%		-3.83%

^ This Portfolio’s annual expenses reflect temporary fee reductions.

⁽¹⁾  This is the variable investment option’s new name. The variable investment option’s former name is Ivy VIP High Income which may continue to be used in certain documents for a period of time after the date of this Prospectus.

⁽²⁾  This is the variable investment option’s new name. The variable investment option’s former name is Ivy VIP Small Cap Growth which may continue to be used in certain documents for a period of time after the date of this Prospectus.

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Appendix: Hypothetical illustrations

ILLUSTRATION OF DEATH BENEFITS, ACCOUNT VALUES, NET CASH SURRENDER VALUES AND ACCUMULATED PREMIUMS

The following tables illustrate the changes in death benefit, policy account value and net cash surrender value of the policy under certain hypothetical circumstances that we assume solely for this purpose. Each table illustrates the operation of a policy for a specified issue age, premium payment schedule and face amount under the standard death benefit. The tables assume annual planned periodic premiums that are paid at the beginning of each policy year for an insured person who is a 35-year-old preferred elite risk male non-tobacco user when the policy is issued. The amounts shown are for the end of each policy year and assume that all of the policy account value is invested in Portfolios that achieve investment returns at constant hypothetical gross annual rates of 0%, 6% and 12% (i.e., before any investment management fees or other expenses are deducted from the underlying Portfolio assets). These hypothetical investment return assumptions are not intended as estimates of future performance of any investment fund. The Company is not able to predict the future performance of the investment options. Higher rates of return used in these illustrations generally reflect rates of return for a number of broad stock indices over long-term periods. Of course lower rates of return will lower the values illustrated. For this reason, you should carefully consider the illustrations at 0% and 6%. After the deduction of the arithmetic average of the investment management fees and other expenses of all of the underlying Portfolios (as described below), the corresponding net annual rates of return would be [    ]%, [    ]% and [    ]%. These net annual rates of return do not reflect the mortality and expense risk charge, or other charges we deduct from your policy’s value each month. If the net annual rates of return did reflect these charges, the rates shown would be lower; however, the values shown in the following tables reflect all policy charges. Investment return reflects investment income and all realized and unrealized capital gains and losses.

The tables headed “Using Current Charges” assume that the current rates for the following charges deducted by the Company in each year illustrated: premium charge, administrative charge, cost of insurance charge, mortality and expense risk charge. The tables headed “Using Guaranteed Charges” are the same, except that the maximum permitted rates for all years are used for all charges. The tables do not reflect any charge that we reserve the right to make but are not currently making. The tables assume that (i) no optional rider benefits have been elected, (ii) no loans or withdrawals are made, and (iii) no changes in coverage are requested.

With respect to fees and expenses deducted from assets of the underlying Portfolios, the amounts shown in all tables reflect (1) investment management fees equivalent to an effective annual rate of 0.57%, and (2) an assumed average asset charge for all other expenses of the underlying Portfolios equivalent to an effective annual rate of [0.59]%. These rates are the arithmetic average for all Portfolios that are available as investment options. In other words, they are based on the hypothetical assumption that policy account values are allocated equally among the variable investment options. These rates do not reflect Investment Expense Reductions, or expense limitation arrangements in effect with respect to certain underlying Portfolios. If those reductions or arrangements had been assumed, the policy values would be higher than those shown in the following tables. The actual rates associated with any policy will vary depending upon the actual allocation of policy values among the investment options.

The second column of each table shows the amount you would have at the end of each policy year if an amount equal to the assumed planned periodic premiums were invested to earn interest, after taxes, at 5% annually. This is not a policy value. It is included for comparison purposes only.

Because your circumstances will no doubt differ from those in the illustrations that follow, values under your policy will differ, in most cases substantially. Upon request, we will furnish you with a personalized illustration as described under “Illustrations of policy benefits” in “Personalized illustrations” in this prospectus.

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Equitable Advantage^SM

$600,000 Face Amount

Male, Issue Age 35, Preferred Elite Non-Tobacco User Underwriting Risk Class

Standard Death Benefit

Initial Annual Planned Periodic Premium: $5,600*

Using Current Charges

		Death Benefit			Account Value			Net Cash Surrender Value
End Of Policy Year	Premiums Accum. At 5% Interest Per Year	Assuming Hypothetical Gross Annual Investment Return of:			Assuming Hypothetical Gross Annual Investment Return of:			Assuming Hypothetical Gross Annual Investment Return of:
		0% Gross	6% Gross	12% Gross	0% Gross	6% Gross	12% Gross	0% Gross	6% Gross	12% Gross

* The illustrations assume that planned periodic premiums are paid at the start of each policy year. The death benefit, account value and net cash surrender value will differ if premiums are paid in different amounts or frequencies.

** Policy lapses unless additional payments are made.

The hypothetical investment results are illustrative only and should not be deemed a representation of past or future investment results. Actual investment results may be more or less than those shown and will depend on a number of factors, including investment allocations made by the owner. The death benefit, account value and net cash surrender value for a policy would be different from those shown if the actual gross rates of investment return averaged 0%, 6% or 12% over a period of years, but also fluctuated above or below the average for individual policy years. We can make no representation that these hypothetical investment results can be achieved for any one year or continued over any period of time. In fact, for any given period of time, the investment results could be negative.

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Equitable Advantage^SM

$600,000 Face Amount

Male, Issue Age 35, Preferred Elite Non-Tobacco User Underwriting Risk Class

Standard Death Benefit

Initial Annual Planned Periodic Premium: $5,600*

Using Guaranteed Charges

		Death Benefit			Account Value			Net Cash Surrender Value
End Of Policy Year	Premiums Accum. At 5% Interest Per Year	Assuming Hypothetical Gross Annual Investment Return of:			Assuming Hypothetical Gross Annual Investment Return of:			Assuming Hypothetical Gross Annual Investment Return of:
		0% Gross	6% Gross	12% Gross	0% Gross	6% Gross	12% Gross	0% Gross	6% Gross	12% Gross

* The illustrations assume that planned periodic premiums are paid at the start of each policy year. The death benefit, account value and net cash surrender value will differ if premiums are paid in different amounts or frequencies.

** Policy lapses unless additional payments are made.

The hypothetical investment results are illustrative only and should not be deemed a representation of past or future investment results. Actual investment results may be more or less than those shown and will depend on a number of factors, including investment allocations made by the owner. The death benefit, account value and net cash surrender value for a policy would be different from those shown if the actual gross rates of investment return averaged 0%, 6% or 12% over a period of years, but also fluctuated above or below the average for individual policy years. We can make no representation that these hypothetical investment results can be achieved for any one year or continued over any period of time. In fact, for any given period of time, the investment results could be negative.

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Appendix: Calculating the death benefit

The following examples demonstrate how we calculate the standard death benefit. The examples show an insured under two policies with the same face amount, but account values vary as shown. We assume that each insured is age 65 at the time of death, is a male preferred non-tobacco user, and that there is no outstanding debt. Policy 1 shows what the death benefit would be for a policy with a low account value. Policy 2 shows what the death benefit would be for a policy with a higher account value.

The alternative death benefit is equal to the policy account value times a death benefit percentage which will be specified in your policy, and which varies based upon the insured’s attained age, sex and risk class. If the account value in your policy is high enough, relative to the face amount, the life insurance benefit will automatically be greater than the standard death benefit. In the example below, the alternative death benefit for Policy 1 is $50,400 ($35,000 x 144.0%) and the alternative death benefit for Policy 2 is $122,400 ($85,000 x 144.0%). The standard death benefit is equal to the face amount on ($100,000) the date of death. For the owner of Policy 1, the death benefit would equal the face amount, since the alternative death benefit amount ($50,400) is less than the face amount ($100,000). For the owner of Policy 2, the death benefit would be the alternative death benefit ($122,400), since the alternative death benefit ($122,400) is greater than the face amount ($100,000).

	Policy 1		Policy 2
Face Amount		$100,000		$100,000
Policy Account Value on the Date of Death		$  35,000		$  85,000
Death Benefit Percentage		144.0%		144.0%
Standard Death Benefit		$100,000		$100,000
Alternative Death Benefit		$  50,400		$122,400
Death Benefit Paid		$100,000		$122,400

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Appendix: State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits

The following information is a summary of the states where certain policies or certain features and/or benefits are either not available as of the date of this prospectus or vary from the policy’s features and benefits as previously described in this prospectus. Certain features and/or benefits may have been approved in your state after your policy was issued and cannot be added. Please contact your financial professional for more information about availability in your state.

States where certain policies features and/or benefits are not available or vary:

State	Features and Benefits	Availability or Variation
Florida	See “Borrowing from your policy” in “Death benefits and accessing your money”	There is no minimum loan amount.
New York	See “Fee Table”	Surrender Charge is 6% of each premium, not to exceed an amount per 1,000 of initial base policy face amount: Highest per 1,000: $46.17 Lowest per 1,000: $11.23
	See “Changes in Charges” in “More information about policy charges”	The following paragraph replaces the second paragraph in this section in its entirety:
		Changes in policy cost factors (interest rates we credit to the Guaranteed Interest Option, cost of insurance rates, the premium charge, the administrative charge, any mortality and expense risk charge, and the rates for any additional benefit riders) will be on a basis that is equitable to all policies belonging to a given class, and will be determined based on reasonable assumptions as to expenses, mortality, investment income, persistency and, with respect to any rider that provides for accelerated death benefits for chronic illness, policy and contract claims associated with morbidity. For the sake of clarity, the assumptions referenced above include taxes; longevity; surrenders; lapses; conversions; disability; accident; illness; and with respect to the rates for any rider that provides accelerated death benefits for chronic illness, inability to perform activities of daily living and cognitive impairment, if applicable. Any change in policy cost factors will never result in an interest crediting rate that is lower than that guaranteed in the policy, or policy charges that exceed the maximum policy charges guaranteed in the policy. Any change in policy cost factors will be on a prospective basis; that is, any change will be determined based on future anticipated or emerging experience.
	See “Borrowing from your policy” in “Death benefits and accessing your money”	There is no minimum loan amount.
	See “Loan Interest We Charge” under “Borrowing from your policy” in “Death benefits and accessing your money”	Your policy will not terminate solely due to a change in the policy loan interest rate during the policy year.
	See “Assigning your policy” in “More information about procedures that apply to your policy” See “Features and benefits of your policy” under “More information about policy charges”	We may restrict changes in ownership only to maintain the tax qualification status of the policy. The MSO is not available in New York.
North Dakota	See “Suicide exclusion and misstatements”	All references to “two years” are changed to “one year.”

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Appendix: Examples of how the Policy Continuation Rider works

Below are examples of how the Policy Continuation Rider works and how minimum benefit requirements are met. The examples detail the key components during the year that a sample policy goes on policy continuation.

Example

For this sample policy, the policy was issued to a male non-smoker. The policy is not in grace period and is not now a Modified Endowment Contract, nor will it become one when the Policy Continuation Rider (PCR) is exercised.

Age	Yr	Mth		CVAT PCR Guaranteed Charges (Beginning of Month)		New Loan Taken		Policy Account Value End of Month		End of Month Loan Balance		Accrued Loan Interest		Net AV End of Month		End of Month Net Death Benefit		Total Face Amount
78	32		1	$	—		0	$	3,936,863	$	3,464,907	$	11,343	$	460,613	$	1,271,607	$	1,500,000
78	32		2	$	460,613		0	$	3,484,823	$	3,464,907	$	22,724	$	—	$	718,452	$	1,500,000
78	32		3	$	—		0	$	3,493,418	$	3,464,907	$	34,141	$	—	$	720,804	$	1,500,000
78	32		4	$	—		0	$	3,502,034	$	3,464,907	$	45,596	$	—	$	723,164	$	1,500,000
78	32		5	$	—		0	$	3,510,671	$	3,464,907	$	57,089	$	—	$	725,531	$	1,500,000
78	32		6	$	—		0	$	3,519,329	$	3,464,907	$	68,619	$	—	$	727,906	$	1,500,000
78	32		7	$	—		0	$	3,528,008	$	3,464,907	$	80,187	$	—	$	730,289	$	1,500,000
78	32		8	$	—		0	$	3,536,709	$	3,464,907	$	91,792	$	—	$	732,680	$	1,500,000
78	32		9	$	—		0	$	3,545,432	$	3,464,907	$	103,436	$	—	$	735,079	$	1,500,000
78	32		10	$	—		0	$	3,554,176	$	3,464,907	$	115,118	$	—	$	737,485	$	1,500,000
78	32		11	$	—		0	$	3,562,941	$	3,464,907	$	126,838	$	—	$	739,899	$	1,500,000
78	32		12	$	—		0	$	3,571,729	$	3,464,907	$	138,596	$	—	$	742,322	$	1,500,000

(a) The policy account value reflects a hypothetical annual crediting rate on loan collateral of 3%.

(b) The amounts in this column reflect the Accrued Loan Interest based on a hypothetical annual rate of 4%. The maximum rate is the greater of (a) 2% or (b) the “Monthly Average Corporate” yield published in Moody’s Corporate Bond Yield Averages for the month that ends two months before the interest rate is set. In Month 2 and all subsequent months, the amounts are calculated as follows:

The previous Accrued Loan Interest, plus the monthly loan interest rate (0.32737% which is equivalent to 4% annually), multiplied by the Loan Balance plus the previous Accrued Loan Interest. For example, the Accrued Loan Interest for Month 2 is calculated as follows: $11,343 + 0.32737% x ($3,464,907 + $11,343) = $22,724.

(c) The amounts in this column reflect the Net Death Benefit. The amounts are calculated as follows: The Death Benefit is the greatest of: (a) the Policy Account Value or the outstanding loan and accrued loan interest, whichever is greater, multiplied by a percentage shown in your policy for the insured person’s age (nearest birthday) at the beginning of each policy year, (b) the outstanding loan and accrued loan interest on the insured person’s date of death plus $10,000, or (c) the current base policy face amount. The Net Death Benefit is the Death Benefit less Loan Balance and the Accrued Loan Interest. Therefore, the Net Death Benefit for Month 2 is calculated as follows: [the greatest of: (a) [the maximum of ($3,484,823, $3,464,907 + $22,724)] x 120.6%; (b) ($3,464,907 + $22,724 + $10,000); (c) ($1,500,000)] less ($3,464,907 + $22,724). That is, [the greatest of [$4,206,082; $3,497,631; $1,500,000] – ($3,464,907 + $22,724) = $718,452.

The policy owner may exercise the Policy Continuation Rider at the beginning of the second month of this year because the following additional conditions are also satisfied:

(1) The policy owner is attained age 78, and the policy year is 32, meeting the minimum age (75) and duration (15 years) requirements;

(2) the loan balance and accrued loan interest ($3,464,907 + $11,343 = $3,476,250) exceeds the current policy face amount ($1,500,000);

(3) the loan balance and accrued loan interest ($3,464,907 + $11,343 = $3,476,250) equals or exceeds the Policy Account Value, multiplied by the applicable Policy Continuation Trigger Percentage (shown in the policy) ($3,936,863 x 80% = $3,149,490); and

(4) the Net Policy Account Value ($460,613) is sufficient to cover the Policy Continuation Benefit Charge, which equals the Policy Account Value times the Policy Continuation Benefit Charge rate of 11.70%, which is the rate for a policy in which the insured has attained age 78 ($3,936,863 x 11.70% = $460,613).

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After the policy goes on policy continuation, future premium payments, partial withdrawals and requested policy changes are not allowed (See “Effect of Policy Continuation” above). The policy, however, does not lapse and continues in force during the illustrated year and in all subsequent years. Loan interest continues to be due on each policy anniversary, and if not paid when due, is added to the outstanding loan.

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Requesting more information

The Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”), dated August 20, 2021, is incorporated into this prospectus by reference and is available upon request, free of charge, by calling our toll free number at 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.) and requesting to speak with a customer service representative. You may also request one by writing to our operations center at P.O. Box 1047, Charlotte, NC 28201-1047. The SAI includes additional information about the registrant. You can make inquiries about your policy and request personalized illustrations by calling our toll free number at 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.), or asking your financial professional.

You may visit the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov to view the SAI and other information (including other parts of a registration statement) that relates to the Separate Account and the policies. Copies of this information may be obtained, upon payment of a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following email address: publicinfo@sec.gov.

C000229053 836467

Equitable Advantage^SM

Summary Prospectus for New Investors

August 20, 2021

An individual flexible premium variable and index-linked life insurance policy issued by Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company (the “Company”, “we”, “our” and “us”), formerly AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company with variable investment options offered under the Company’s Separate Account FP. Variable and indexed-linked life insurance policies are complex investment vehicles and you should speak with a financial professional about policy features, benefits, risks and fees and whether the policy is appropriate for you based on your financial situation and objectives.

This summary prospectus summarizes key features of the policy (the “Summary Prospectus”). Before you invest, you should also review the prospectus for the policy, which contains more information about the policy’s features, benefits, and risks (the “Prospectus”). You can find this document and other information about the policy online at www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH 162723. You can also obtain this information at no cost by calling 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.) or by sending an email request to life-service@equitable.com.

You may cancel your policy within 10 days of receiving it without paying fees or penalties. In some states, this cancellation period may be longer. In most states, we will refund the policy account value calculated plus any charges that were deducted from premiums that were paid and from the policy account value, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. In other states, we will refund the premiums that were paid, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. You should review the prospectus, or consult with your investment professional, for additional information about the specific cancellation terms that apply.

The policy provides life insurance coverage, plus the opportunity for you to earn a return in (i) our guaranteed interest option, (ii) an investment option we refer to as the Market Stabilizer Option^®, if available, which is described in the separate Market Stabilizer Option® prospectus and/or (iii) one or more variable investment options set forth in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” the Prospectus. The MSO gives you the opportunity to earn interest that we will credit based in part on the performance of the S&P 500 Price Return Index, excluding dividends, over approximately a one year period, although you could also experience a negative return and a significant loss of principal and previously credited interest. See MSO prospectus for more information. If you did not receive an MSO prospectus and wish to obtain one, please call us at 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.).

Additional general information about certain investment products, including variable life insurance contracts, has been prepared by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s staff and is available at Investor.gov.

Electronic delivery of shareholder reports (pursuant to Rule 30e-3). Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the shareholder reports for portfolio companies available under your policy will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports from the Company or from your financial intermediary. Instead, the reports will be made available on a website, and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the report.

If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may elect to receive shareholder reports and other communications electronically from the Company by calling 1-800-777-6510 or by calling your financial intermediary.

You may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. You can inform the Company that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports by calling 1-877-522-5035, by sending an email request to EquitableFunds@dfinsolutions.com, or by calling your financial intermediary. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all portfolio companies available under your contract.

Table of Contents

Important Information You Should Consider About the Policy	3
Overview of the Policy	6
Brief Description of the Policy	6
Premiums	6
Contract Features	6
Standard Death Benefits Under the Policy	8
Other Benefits Available Under the Policy	10
Buying the Policy	12
How Your Policy Can Lapse	13
Making Withdrawals: Accessing the Money in Your Policy	14
Making Withdrawals From Your Policy	14
Surrendering Your Policy for its Net Cash Surrender Value	14
Additional Information About Fees	15
Appendix: Investment options available under the policy	18
Back Cover Page	21

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Important Information You Should Consider About the Policy

FEES AND EXPENSES
Charges for Early Withdrawals	We will not deduct a charge for making a partial withdrawal from your policy, however, if you surrender the policy in its first 10 years, you’ll be subject to a surrender charge of up to 5.59% of face amount. For example, if you surrender your policy in the first year and the policy face amount was $100,000, you could pay a surrender charge of up to $5,587. There is also an MSO Early Distribution Adjustment on amounts withdrawn before segment maturity which could result in a 90% loss of Segment Account Value. See MSO prospectus for more information. For more information on the impacts of withdrawals, please refer to “Making withdrawals from your policy” in the Prospectus. For more information on surrender charges, please refer to “Deducting policy charges” in the Prospectus.
Transaction Charges	In addition to certain surrender charges, you may be subject to other transaction charges, including charges on each premium paid under the policy, charges in connection with requests to decrease your policy’s face amount, transfer fees, and other special service charges (e.g., wire transfer charges, express mail charges, policy illustration charges, duplicate policy charges, policy history charges, and charges for returned payments). For more information on transaction charges, please refer to the “Fee Table” in the Prospectus.
Ongoing Fees and Expenses (annual charges)	In addition to surrender charges and transaction charges, an investment in the policy is subject to certain ongoing fees and expenses, including fees and expenses covering the cost of insurance under the policy, administration and and mortality risks, MSO and loan charges, and the cost of optional benefits available under the policy. Such fees and expenses may be based on characteristics of the insured (e.g., age, sex, risk class and particular health, occupational or vocational risks). You should view the information pages of your policy for rates applicable to your policy. You will also bear expenses associated with the variable investment options (the “Portfolios”) under the policy, as shown in the following table:
	Annual Fee	Minimum	Maximum
	Portfolios	0.58%	3.01%
	Portfolio expenses are for the year ended December 31, 2020 and may be based, in part, on estimated amounts of such expenses and may change from year to year. For more information on ongoing fees and expenses, please refer to the “Fee Table” and Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” in the Prospectus.
	The Investment Expense Reduction may apply to the calculation of daily unit values of the variable investment options. The Investment Expense Reduction is described in further detail in “More information about policy charges” in the Prospectus.
RISKS
Risk of Loss	You may lose money by investing in the policy.
Not a Short-Term Investment	The policy is not a short-term investment and is not appropriate for an investor who needs ready access to cash. The policy is designed to provide benefits on a long-term basis. Consequently, you should not use the policy as a short-term investment or savings vehicle. Because of the long-term nature of the policy, you should consider whether purchasing the policy is consistent with the purpose for which it is being considered.

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Risks Associated with Investment Options An investment in the policy is subject to the risk of poor investment performance and can vary depending on the performance of the Portfolios and the MSO and the guaranteed investment option (GIO) available under the policy, each of which has its own unique risks. For more information, see the MSO prospectus and the “Guaranteed Interest Option” section in “Investment options within your policy” in the Prospectus. You should review the Portfolios’ prospectuses before making an investment decision. Portfolio prospectuses are available at www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162723.   For more information on the Portfolios, please refer to Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” in the Prospectus.  

Insurance Company Risks	An investment in the policy is subject to the risks related to the Company. Any policy obligations (including under the fixed rate option and under the MSO), guarantees, or benefits are subject to the claims-paying ability of the Company. More information about the Company, including its financial strength ratings, is available at https://equitable.com/selling-life-insurance/financial-strength-ratings. More information about the Company’s general account can be found in “About our general account” in the Prospectus.
Policy Lapse	Death benefits will not be paid if the policy has lapsed. Your policy may lapse due to insufficient premium payments, poor investment performance, withdrawals, unpaid loans or loan interest, your policy account value will not cover policy charges. If your policy is in default, you will be notified in writing and given an opportunity to make an additional payment to keep your policy in force and prevent it from lapsing. The grace period you have to make said additional payment will be 61 days long. If your policy lapses, you will be notified in writing and you may be able make additional payments to restore your policy’s benefits. In this case, additional requirements must also be met to restore your policy. If your policy provides for a no-lapse guarantee, you may have to pay more premiums to have the benefits of the no-lapse guarantee. If your policy provides for a policy continuation feature, and the conditions of the Rider are satisfied, including that there is sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge, then the policy will not lapse. For more information on how to prevent your policy from lapsing, please refer to “The minimum amount of premiums you must pay” and “You can guarantee that your policy will not terminate before a certain date” in the Prospectus.
RESTRICTIONS
Investments	You may allocate your premiums to any of the Portfolios set forth in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” or to the GIO or the MSO of the Prospectus. We reserve the right to remove or substitute Portfolios as investment options under the policy. Currently, the total of all transfers of variable investment options you make on the same day must be at least $500; except that you may transfer your entire balance in a single Portfolio, even if it is less than $500. We may limit transfers you can make into the GIO, if the current (non-guaranteed) interest crediting rate on the GIO is equal to the guaranteed minimum interest crediting rate of 1.0% (annual rate). For more information, please refer to “Guaranteed Interest Option” in “Investment options within your policy” in the Prospectus. There may be restrictions upon transfers into and out of the MSO. For more information, see the MSO prospectus. We allow only one request for transfers each day (although that request can cover multiple transfers). Only written transfer requests submitted to our Administrative Office may be processed for policies that are jointly owned or assigned. We reserve the right to limit policy transfers if we determine that you are engaged in a disruptive transfer activity, such as “market timing.” For more information, please refer to “Variable investment options” and “Transfers you can make” in the Prospectus.

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Optional Benefits	As a policy owner, you may be able to obtain extra benefits, which may require additional charges. These optional benefits are described in what is known as a “rider” to the policy. Optional benefits are subject to additional charges and payments made under these benefits are generally subject to the same transaction fees as other premium payments but may be treated differently for other purposes (e.g., certain death benefit minimums). Optional benefits are not available for all ages (or may terminate at certain ages) and underwriting classifications. We may stop offering an optional benefit at any time. For more information on optional benefits and other limitations under the policy, please refer to “Other benefits you can add by rider,” “Nonforfeiture Benefit” and “Suicide and certain misstatements” in the Prospectus.
TAXES
Tax Implications	You should consult with a tax professional to determine the tax implications of an investment in and payments received under the policy. There is no additional tax benefit to the investor if the policy is purchased through a tax-qualified plan or individual retirement account (IRA). Withdrawals will be subject to ordinary income tax, and may be subject to tax penalties.
	For more information on tax implications relating to policy investments, please refer to “Tax information” in the Prospectus.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Investment Professional Compensation	Some financial professionals may receive compensation for selling the policy to you, both in the form of commissions or in the form of contribution-based compensation. Financial professionals may also receive additional compensation for enhanced marketing opportunities and other services (commonly referred to as “marketing allowances”). This conflict of interest may influence the financial professional to recommend this policy over another investment. For more information on investment professional compensation, please refer to “Distribution of the policies” in the Prospectus.
Exchanges	Some investment professionals may have a financial incentive to offer you a new policy in place of the one you already own. You should only exchange your policy if you determine, after comparing the features, fees, and risks of both policies, that it is preferable to purchase the new policy, rather than continue to own your current policy. For more information on exchanges, please refer to the paragraph titled “Section 1035 exchanges of policies with outstanding loans” under “How you can pay for and contribute to your policy” in the Prospectus, as well as the section titled “Future policy changes” in the Prospectus.

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Overview of the Policy

The following summaries provide a brief overview of the more significant aspects of the policy. We provide more complete and detailed information in the subsequent sections of this summary prospectus, the policy’s prospectus and statement of additional information, and the policy contract.

Brief Description of the Policy

The policy is a form of variable life insurance, the primary purpose of which is to provide a death benefit which is paid upon the death of the insured person. The policy provides life insurance coverage, plus the opportunity for you to earn a return in (i) our guaranteed interest option, (ii) an investment option we refer to as the Market Stabilizer Option^®(“MSO”), if available, which is described in a separate prospectus and/or (iii) one or more of the Portfolios, which are listed in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to the Prospectus. The policy may be appropriate if you have a long-term investment horizon and is not intended for short-term investment, and is therefore not appropriate for people who may need to make early or frequent withdrawals or who intend to engage in frequent trading. You have considerable flexibility to tailor the policy to meet your needs.

Some policy forms, features and/or riders described in this summary prospectus may be subject to state variations or may not be available in all states. See Appendix: “State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits” in the Prospectus for state availability and a description of all material variations to features and riders that differ from the description contained in the Prospectus. Some policy forms, features, and/or Portfolios described in this summary prospectus may not be available through all brokers. The form number for this policy is ICC21-21-100. A state and/or other code may follow the form number. Your policy’s form number is located in the lower left hand corner of the first page of your policy.

Premiums

The policy offers flexibility in paying premiums. With certain exceptions, you choose the timing and the amount of premium payments. Payment of insufficient premiums may result in a lapse of the policy.

A policy must satisfy the cash value accumulation test to qualify as a life insurance contract for tax purposes under Section 7702 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”).

If at any time your policy account value is high enough that the alternative higher death benefit would apply, we reserve the right to limit the amount of any premiums that you pay, unless the insured person provides us with evidence of insurability satisfactory to us.

You can allocate your policy’s value to the Portfolios, to the guaranteed interest option or to the MSO, if available. The available Portfolios are listed in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this summary prospectus. The guaranteed interest option pays a fixed rate of interest that we declare periodically with a 1.0% minimum. The MSO rider, if available under your policy, provides you with the opportunity to earn interest that we will credit based in part on the performance of the S&P 500 Price Return Index subject to the possibility of negative returns and significant loss of principal and previously credited interest. Different procedures and additional restrictions on withdrawals, loans, surrender and right to cancel apply to the MSO. For additional information see the MSO prospectus.

Contract Features

Standard Death Benefit — If the insured dies, we pay a life insurance benefit to the “beneficiary” you have named.

The death benefit is the policy’s face amount on the date of the insured’s death. The amount of this death benefit doesn’t change over time, unless you take any action that changes the policy’s face amount.

There is also an alternative higher death benefit paid in certain circumstances. For additional detail regarding the calculation and payment of death benefits, refer to “Death benefits and accessing your money” in the Prospectus.

Loans — You may borrow money from your policy, subject to certain limitations. Interest charges will apply.

Withdrawals — Subject to certain conditions, you may withdraw a part of your policy’s cash surrender value without surrendering the policy.

Surrendering the Policy — A policy may be surrendered for its net cash surrender value while the insured is living. Surrender charges and/or tax penalties may apply.

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Overview of the Policy

Riders — You may be able to obtain extra fixed benefits under the policy, which may require additional charges. These optional insurance benefits are referenced herein as “riders” to the policy.

You may be eligible for the following riders:

• Charitable Legacy Rider: An optional rider may be elected at issue that provides an additional death benefit of 1% of the base policy face amount to the qualified charitable organization(s) chosen by the policy owner at no additional cost.

• Living Benefits Rider: This feature enables you to receive a portion (generally the lesser of 75% or $250,000) of the policy’s death benefit (excluding death benefits payable under certain other policy riders), if the insured person has a terminal illness (as defined in the rider). We make no additional charge for the rider, but we will deduct a one-time administrative charge of up to $250 from any living benefit we pay. This rider will automatically be included at issue if you apply for a face amount of at least $100,000. There will be a $100 administrative charge if this rider is not added at issue.

• No-Lapse Guarantee Rider: This rider provides you with a guarantee against policy termination for a specific period of time. This rider is automatically added to policies.

• Policy Continuation Rider: Your policy offers an additional feature against policy termination due to an outstanding loan if the criteria for the Rider are satisfied, called “policy continuation.” If this rider is exercised, there is a one-time charge. See “Policy Continuation Charge” in the Prospectus. This rider is automatically included in your policy.

Depending on when your policy was purchased, certain variations may apply which differ from the information contained in this section. In addition, depending on where your policy was issued, certain features or benefits may not be available or vary from the policy’s features and benefits described in this summary prospectus. Please see Appendix: “State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits” in the Prospectus for more information.

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Overview of the Policy

Standard Death Benefits Under the Policy

As long as your incontestable policy is in force, we will pay the death benefit to your beneficiary or beneficiaries once we receive at our Administrative Office satisfactory proof of the Insured’s death. The death benefit is determined as of the date of death and generally paid within 7 days after proof of death and any other required documents are received.

Commencement of insurance coverage. You must give the full minimum initial premium to your financial professional on or before the day the policy and all amendments are delivered to you. No insurance under your policy will take effect unless (1) the insured person is still living at the time such payment and all delivery requirements are completed and (2) the information in the application continues to be true and complete, without material change, as of the date the policy and all amendments are delivered to you and all delivery requirements have been completed and the full minimum initial premium is paid.

Your policy’s face amount. In your application to buy a policy, you tell us how much insurance coverage you want on the life of the insured person. We call this the “face amount” of the base policy. Generally, $100,000 is the minimum amount of coverage you can request. If you have elected the Charitable Legacy Rider, the minimum face amount is $1 million.

If the insured person dies, we pay a life insurance benefit to the “beneficiary” you have named once we have received satisfactory proof of the insured’s death at our Administrative Office.

Your policy’s “death benefit”.

The policy’s face amount on the date of the insured person’s death. The amount of this death benefit doesn’t change over time, unless you take any action that changes the policy face amount.

Alternative higher death benefit in certain cases. Your policy is designed to always provide a minimum level of insurance protection relative to your policy account value, in part to meet the Code’s definition of “life insurance.”

We will automatically pay an alternative death benefit if it is higher than the standard death benefit.

The alternative death benefit is computed by multiplying your policy account value on the insured person’s date of death by a percentage specified in your policy. At ages greater than 99, this percentage is equal to 101%. At ages less than 100, this percentage is equal to the reciprocal of the net single premium per dollar of insurance calculated using the prevailing interest rate and mortality charges based upon the 2017 Commissioner’s Standard Ordinary Mortality Tables, and varies based upon the insured person’s age, sex and risk class.

The death benefit is designed to be greater than the amount necessary to ensure that the policy’s cash surrender value does not at any time exceed the net single premium needed to fund future policy benefits under the contract, with all such terms as defined in section 7702 of the Code. Refer to the Prospectus for additional information on how alternative death benefits are calculated.

Each policy owner receives an annual statement showing various policy values. The annual statement shows the death benefit amount as of the policy anniversary, and that amount would reflect the alternative higher death benefit amount, if applicable at that time. This annual statement also reflects the monthly cost of insurance charge for the policy year, reflecting a higher net amount at risk in those months when the higher alternative death benefit is in effect.

Other adjustments to death benefit. We will increase the death benefit proceeds by the amount of any other benefits we owe upon the insured person’s death under any optional riders which are in effect.

We will reduce the death benefit proceeds by the amount of any outstanding policy loan and unpaid loan interest, as well as any amount of monthly charges under the policy that remain unpaid because the insured person died during a grace period. We also reduce the death benefit if we have already paid part of it under a Living Benefits Rider. We reduce it by the amount of the living benefits payment plus interest. Refer to “Your option to receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider” in the Prospectus.

Death benefit if your policy is on policy continuation. Your policy offers an additional feature against policy termination due to an outstanding loan, called “policy continuation.” Availability of this feature is subject to certain terms and conditions, including that you have had your policy in force for at least 15 years. If your policy is on policy continuation, the death benefit payable under the policy will be determined differently. For more information on policy continuation, see “Policy Continuation Rider” under “More information about policy features and benefits” in the Prospectus.

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Standard Death Benefits Under the Policy

Beneficiary of death benefit. You designate your policy’s beneficiary in your policy application. You can change the beneficiary at any other time during the insured person’s life. If no beneficiary is living when the insured person dies, we will pay the death benefit proceeds in equal shares to the insured person’s surviving children. If there are no surviving children, we will instead pay the insured person’s estate.

Payment of death benefit. We will pay any death benefit in a single sum. If the beneficiary is a natural person (i.e., not an entity such as a corporation) and so elects, death benefit proceeds can be paid through the “Access Account”, which is a draft account that works in certain respects like an interest-bearing checking account. Additional information on the Access Account can be found in “Payment of death benefit” in the Prospectus.

You can decrease your insurance coverage

You may request a decrease in your policy’s face amount any time after the second year of your policy but before the policy year in which the insured person reaches age 121. The requested decrease must be at least $10,000. Please refer to “Tax information” for certain possible tax consequences and limitations of changing the face amount of your policy.

We can refuse or limit any requested decrease. We will not approve any decrease if your policy is in a grace period.

Certain policy changes, including decreases in your insurance coverage, may also affect the guarantee premiums under the policy.

The following additional conditions also apply:

Face amount decreases.  You may not reduce the face amount below the minimum stated in your policy. Nor will we permit a decrease that would cause your policy to fail the Internal Revenue Code’s definition of life insurance. Guarantee premiums, as well as our monthly deductions for the cost of insurance coverage, will generally decrease from the time you reduce the face amount.

If you reduce the face amount during the first 10 years of your policy, we will deduct all or part of the remaining surrender charge from your policy account value. Assuming you have not previously changed the face amount, the amount of the surrender charge we will deduct will be determined by dividing the amount of the decrease by the initial face amount and multiplying that fraction by the total amount of surrender charge that still remains applicable to your policy. We deduct the charge from the same investment options as if it were part of a regular monthly deduction under your policy.

In some cases, we may have to make a distribution to you from your policy at the time we decrease your policy’s face amount. This may be necessary in order to preserve your policy’s status as life insurance under the Internal Revenue Code. We may also be required to make such distribution to you in the future on account of a prior decrease in face amount. The distribution may be taxable.

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Standard Death Benefits Under the Policy

Other Benefits Available Under the Policy

In addition to the standard death benefit(s) associated with your policy, other standard and/or optional benefits may also be available to you. The following table summarizes information about those benefits. Information about the fees associated with each benefit included in the table may be found in the “Fee Table” in this summary prospectus.

Name of Benefit	Purpose	Is Benefit Standard or Optional	Brief Description of Restrictions/Limitation
Charitable Legacy Rider	Provides an additional death benefit of 1% of the base policy face amount to the qualified charitable organization(s) chosen by the policy owner.	Optional	•  Only available at issue, and an accredited charitable beneficiary must be named at that time. •  Available for base policy face amounts of $1 million and above, where the minimum benefit would be $10,000 and the maximum benefit would be $100,000 (i.e., for face amounts of $10 million and above). •  If the base policy face amount is reduced after issue for any reason, the benefit will be payable on the face amount at the time of the insured’s death, provided the face amount is at least $1 million. •  If the base policy face amount has been decreased below $1 million at the time of death, then no benefit is payable.
Living Benefits Rider	Enables you to receive a portion of the policy’s death benefit (with certain exclusions), if the insured person has a terminal illness.	Optional	•  May be elected either at policy issue or after policy issue. If elected after issue, we will deduct $100 from your policy account value at the time of the transaction. •  Subject to underwriting guidelines and state availability, your policy will automatically include this rider if you apply for a face amount of at least 100,000. •  The maximum aggregate amount of payments that will be paid under this rider for all policies issued by the Company or an affiliate company on the life of the same insured person is $500,000.
No-Lapse Guarantee Rider	Generally guarantees that your policy will not terminate for a number of years.	Standard	•  Subject to the payment of certain specified amounts of premiums. •  Rider will not prevent the policy from entering a grace period if the amount of your outstanding policy loans and accrued loan interest is greater than your policy account value. •  Subject to certain conditions, provides a guarantee against policy lapse for 15 years.
Policy Continuation Rider	Protects against the lapse of your policy in certain circumstances.	Optional	•  You can exercise the rider and be placed on “policy continuation,” if at the beginning of any policy month on or following the policy anniversary nearest the insured person’s 75th birthday, but not earlier than the 15th policy anniversary, all of the following conditions apply: •   The amount of any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest equals or exceed the policy account value multiplied by the Policy Continuation Trigger Percentage as provided in your policy;

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Other Benefits Available Under the Policy

Name of Benefit	Purpose	Is Benefit Standard or   Optional	Brief Description of Restrictions/Limitation
			•   There must be sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge; •   The policy must not be a Modified Endowment Contract as defined in section 7702A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exercising the rider must not cause the policy to become a Modified Endowment Contract. •   The amount of any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest is greater than the current base policy face amount; •   The policy is not in a grace period; and •   No current or future distributions will be required to be paid from the policy to maintain its qualification as “life insurance” under the Internal Revenue Code.

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Other Benefits Available Under the Policy

Buying the Policy

Premium payments. We call the amounts you contribute to your policy “premiums” or “premium payments.” The amount we require as your first premium varies depending on the specifics of your policy and the insured person. Each subsequent premium payment must be at least $50, although we can increase this minimum if we give you advance notice. Otherwise, with a few exceptions mentioned below, you can make premium payments at any time and in any amount.

For information on the commencement of insurance coverage, please see “Policy issuance” under “More information about procedures that apply to your policy” in the Prospectus.

Section  1035 exchanges of policies with outstanding loans. If we approve, you may purchase a policy through an assignment and exchange of another life insurance policy with a cash surrender value pursuant to a valid exchange under Section 1035 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). If such other policy is subject to a policy loan, we may permit you to carry over all or a portion of such loan to the policy, subject to our administrative rules then in effect. In this case, we will treat any cash paid, plus any loaned amount carried over to the policy, as premium received in consideration of our issuing the policy. If we allow you to carry over all or a portion of any such outstanding loan, then we will hold amounts securing such loan in the same manner as the collateral for any other policy loan, and your policy also will be subject to all our other rules regarding loans (refer to “Borrowing from your policy” in the Prospectus.

You can generally pay premiums at such times and in such amounts as you like before the policy anniversary nearest to the insured’s 121st birthday, so long as you don’t exceed certain limits determined by the federal income tax laws applicable to life insurance.

The cash value accumulation test and limits on premium payments. This policy must satisfy the cash value accumulation test to qualify as a life insurance for tax purposes under Section 7702 of the Code.

If your premium payments exceed certain other amounts specified under the Code, your policy will become a “modified endowment contract,” which may subject you to additional taxes and penalties on any distributions from your policy. See “Tax information” in the Prospectus. We may return any premium payments that would cause your policy to become a modified endowment contract if we have not received a satisfactory modified endowment contract acknowledgment from you.

You can ask your financial professional to provide you with an illustration of policy benefits that shows you the amount of premiums you can pay, based on various assumptions, without exceeding applicable tax law limits. The tax law limits can change as a result of certain changes you make to your policy. For example, a reduction in the face amount of your policy may reduce the amount of premiums that you can pay and may impact whether your policy is a modified endowment contract.

You should discuss possible limitations on policy premiums with your financial professional and tax advisor before purchasing the policy.

Planned periodic premiums. Page 3 of your policy will specify a “planned periodic premium.” This is the amount that you request us to bill you. However, payment of these or any other specific amounts of premiums is not mandatory. You need to pay only the amount of premiums (if any) necessary to keep your policy from lapsing and terminating as discussed below.

Additional premium payments to prevent lapse. Your policy may lapse due to insufficient premium payments, poor investment performance, withdrawals, unpaid loans or loan interest, your policy account value will not cover policy charges. If your policy is in default, you will be notified in writing and given an opportunity to make additional payments to keep your policy in force. You will have a 61-day grace period to pay at least an amount prescribed in your policy which would be enough to keep your policy in force for approximately three months (without regard to investment performance). If we do not receive your payment by the end of the grace period, your policy (and all riders to the policy) will terminate without value and all coverage under your policy will cease. We will mail an additional notice to you if your policy terminates.

If the insured person dies during a grace period, we will pay the death benefit, less any overdue charges (but not more than the guarantee premium amount required to keep the no-lapse guarantee in effect), policy loans or liens and accrued loan or lien interest, to the beneficiary you have named.Additional information about the grace period is contained in “The minimum amount of premiums you must pay” in “Payment of premiums and determining your policy’s value” in the Prospectus.

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Buying the Policy

How Your Policy Can Lapse

Policy “lapse” and termination. Your policy will lapse (also referred to in your policy as “default”) if your “net policy account value” is not enough to pay your policy’s monthly charges due to insufficient premium payments, poor investment performance, withdrawals, policy charges, unpaid loans or loan interest, when due unless:

• you have paid sufficient premiums to keep the no-lapse guarantee in effect, the no-lapse guarantee is still in effect and any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest does not exceed the policy account value (refer to “You can guarantee that your policy will not terminate before a certain date” in the Prospectus); or

• you satisfy the requirements of the Policy Continuation Rider including that there is sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge (see “Policy Continuation Rider” in “Other benefits available under the policy”).

We will mail a notice to you at your last known address if your policy is in defalut. You will have a 61-day grace period to pay at least an amount prescribed in your policy which would be enough to keep your policy in force for approximately three months (without regard to investment performance). You may not make any transfers or request any other policy changes during a grace period. If we receive the requested amount before the end of the grace period, it will be treated as a loan repayment to the extent it is less than or equal to any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest. The remainder of the payment, if any, will be treated as a premium payment. If your policy account value is still insufficient to cover total monthly deductions, we will send a written notice that a new 61-day grace period has begun and request an additional payment. If we do not receive your payment by the end of the grace period, your policy (and all riders to the policy) will terminate without value and all coverage under your policy will cease. We will mail an additional notice to you if your policy terminates.

If the insured person dies during a grace period, we will pay the death benefit, less any overdue charges (but not more than the guarantee premium amount required to keep the no-lapse guarantee in effect), policy loans or liens and accrued loan or lien interest, to the beneficiary you have named.

Your policy will terminate if you don’t pay enough premiums (i) to pay the charges we deduct, or (ii) to maintain the no-lapse guarantee that can keep your policy from terminating. However, we will first send you a notice and give you the opportunity to pay any shortfall.

You may owe taxes if your policy terminates while you have a loan outstanding, even though you receive no additional money from your policy at that time. Refer to “Tax information” in the Prospectus.

Restoring a terminated policy. To have your policy “restored” (put back in force), you must apply within three years after the date of termination. You must also (i) present evidence of insurability satisfactory to us and (ii) pay at least the amount of premium that we require. The amount of payment will not be more than an amount sufficient to cover total monthly deductions for 3 months, calculated from the effective date of restoration, and the premium charge. We will determine the amount of this required payment as if no interest or investment performance were credited to or charged against your policy account. Your policy contains additional information about the minimum amount of this premium and about the values and terms of the policy after it is restored and the effective date of such restoration. You may only restore your policy if it has terminated without value. You may not restore a policy that was given up for its net cash surrender value. Any no-lapse guarantee also terminates and cannot be restored after the policy terminates.

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How Your Policy Can Lapse

Making Withdrawals: Accessing the Money in Your Policy

Making Withdrawals From Your Policy

You may make a partial withdrawal of your net cash surrender value at any time after the first year of your policy and before the policy anniversary nearest to the insured’s attained age 121, provided the policy is not on policy continuation. The request must be for at least $500, however, and we have discretion to decline any request. If you do not tell us from which investment options you wish us to take the withdrawal, we will use the same allocation that then applies for the monthly deductions we make for charges; and, if that is not possible, we will take the withdrawal from all of your investment options in proportion to your value in each. We will not deduct a charge for making a partial withdrawal.

You can withdraw all or part of your policy’s net cash surrender value, although you may incur tax consequences by doing so.

Effect of partial withdrawals on insurance coverage. A partial withdrawal will result in a reduction in the cash surrender value and in your policy account value equal to the amount withdrawn as well as a reduction in your death benefit.

The death benefit after the withdrawal will be determined as described in this summary prospectus, based on the policy account value and the base policy face amount after the withdrawal.

A partial withdrawal reduces the amount of your premium payments that counts toward maintaining the no-lapse guarantee. A partial withdrawal may increase the chance that your policy could lapse because of insufficient value to pay policy charges as they fall due or failure to pass the guarantee premium test for the no-lapse guarantee. There will be no proportionate surrender charge due to a decrease in base policy face amount resulting from a partial withdrawal.

We will not permit a partial withdrawal that would reduce the face amount below the minimum stated in your policy, or that would cause the policy to no longer be treated as life insurance for federal income tax purposes.

Refer to “Tax information” in the Prospectus for information about possible tax consequences of partial withdrawals and any associated reduction in policy benefits.

Surrendering Your Policy for its Net Cash Surrender Value

Upon written request satisfactory to us, you can surrender (give us back) your policy for its “net cash surrender value” at any time. The net cash surrender value equals your policy account value, minus any outstanding loan and unpaid loan interest, minus any amount of your policy account value that is “restricted” as a result of previously distributed terminal illness living benefits, and minus any surrender charge that then remains applicable. The surrender charge is described in “Charges and expenses you will pay” in the Prospectus.

Refer to “Tax information” in the Prospectus for the possible tax consequences of surrendering your policy.

Date of Transaction

Policy loans, partial withdrawals and surrenders occur as of the date we receive your request in complete and proper form and are generally payable within 7 days of receipt. See “More information about procedures that apply to your policy” in the Prospectus for more information.

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Additional Information About Fees

The following tables describe the fees and expenses that you will pay when buying, owning, and surrendering or making withdrawals from the policy. Please refer to your policy’s information pages for information about the specific fees you will pay each year based on the options you have elected.

The first table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay at the time that you buy the policy, surrender or make withdrawals from the policy, or transfer cash value between Portfolios.

Transaction Fees
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
Premium charge	Upon each premium payment	5% of each premium(1)
Surrender (turning in) of your policy during its first 10 years(2)	Upon surrender	6% of each premium(3), not to exceed an amount per $1,000 of initial base policy face amount Highest: $55.87 Lowest: $20.63
Charge for a Representative Investor (male age 35 at issue in the preferred elite non-tobacco user risk class)	Upon surrender	Representative: $28.26
Request a decrease in your policy’s face amount during its first 10 years(2)	Effective date of the decrease	A pro rata portion of the charge that would apply to a full surrender at the time of the decrease.
MSO Early Distribution Adjustment	On surrender or other distribution (including loan) from an MSO Segment prior to its Segment Maturity Date	90% of Segment Account Value(4)
Transfer Fees	Upon transfer	$25 per transfer(5)
Special Services Charges
•  Wire Transfer Charge(6)	At the time of the transaction	Charge: $90
•  Express Mail Charge(6)	At the time of the transaction	Charge: $35
•  Policy Illustration Charge(7)	At the time of the transaction	Maximum Charge: $25
•  Duplicate Policy Charge(8)	At the time of the transaction	Charge: $35
•  Policy History Charge(8)(9)	At the time of the transaction	Maximum Charge: $50
•  Charge for Returned Payments(8)	At the time of the transaction	Charge: $25

(1) Currently, we reduce this charge to 4% in year 1 after an amount equal to one sales load “target premium” has been paid. In years 2+, this charge is 4% for all premium paid. The “target premium” is actuarially determined for each policy, based on that policy’s specific characteristics, including the policy’s face amount, among other factors.

(2) This charge varies based on individual characteristics of the insured, and may not be representative of the charge that you will pay. In particular, the initial amount of the surrender charge depends on each insured’s specific characteristics. Your financial professional can provide you with more information about these charges as they relate to the insured’s particular characteristics. See “Deducting policy charges” under “More information about policy charges” in the policy prospectus.

(3) The surrender charge percentage of premium we use is determined by the policy year in which you surrender your contract to receive its cash value, or reduce the face amount of your policy as provided in the following table:

Table of Premium Based Surrender Charges
Policy Year of Premium Payment	Policy Year of Surrender
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11 +
1	6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
2		6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
3			6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%
4				6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%	0%
5					6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%
6						6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%
7							6%	5%	4%	3%	0%
8+								0%	0%	0%	0%

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(4) The actual amount of Early Distribution Adjustment is determined by a formula that depends on, among other things, how a specified widely published stock market index has performed since the Segment Start Date. The maximum amount of the adjustment would occur if there is a total distribution at a time when that index had declined to zero. Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for more information about the index and Early Distribution Adjustment.

(5) No charge, however, will ever apply to a transfer of all of your variable investment option amounts to our guaranteed interest option, or to any transfer pursuant to our automatic transfer service or asset rebalancing service as discussed in the policy prospectus. Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for more information about transfer charges.

(6) Unless you specify otherwise, this charge will be deducted from the amount you request.

(7) We do not currently charge for this fee, but reserve the right to in the future.

(8) The charge for this service must be paid using funds outside of your policy. Please see “Deducting policy charges” under “More Information about policy charges” in the policy prospectus for more information.

(9) The charge for this service may be less depending on the policy history you request. Please see “Deducting policy charges” under “More Information about policy charges” in the policy prospectus for more information.

The next table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay periodically during the time that you own the policy, not including Portfolio fees and expenses.

Periodic Charges Other Than Annual Portfolio Company Expenses
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
Base Contract Charge:
Administrative Expenses(1)(2)	Monthly	(1)	Policy         Amount Year           Deducted
			1                 $15 2+               $10
		plus
		(2)	Charge per $1,000 of the initial base policy face amount Highest: $1.60 Lowest: $0.33
Charge for Representative Investor (guaranteed rate for a male age 35 at issue in the preferred elite non-tobacco user risk class)			Representative: $0.37
Cost of Insurance(1)(2)(3): Minimum and Maximum Charge	Monthly	Charge per $1,000 of the amount for which we are at risk:(4) Highest: $83.34 Lowest: $0.03
Charge for a Representative Investor (male age 35 at issue; preferred elite non-tobacco user risk class)	Monthly	Representative: $0.12
Mortality and Expense Risk Fees	Monthly		Annual % of your       value in our variable       investment options       and the MSO (if       applicable)(5)
		Policy Year
		1-10	1.00%
		11+	0.50%
Loan Interest Spread(6)	On each policy anniversary (or on loan termination, if earlier)	1% of loan amount.
Optional Benefit Charges:
Charitable Legacy Rider	N/A	No additional charge.
Market Stabilizer Option® (MSO)(7)
MSO Variable Index Segment Account Charge	At the beginning of each policy month during the MSO Segment Term	1.65% calculated as an annual % of your Segment Account Value(8)

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Periodic Charges Other Than Annual Portfolio Company Expenses
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
MSO loan spread(9) for Amounts of Policy Loans Allocated to MSO Segment	On each policy anniversary (or on loan termination, if earlier)	5%
Policy Continuation Rider	Once - on the date the rider is exercised.	The charge is equal to the policy account value on the date of exercise, multiplied by the Policy Continuation Charge Rate: Maximum rate 13.10%(10)
Adding Living Benefits Rider	Once - on the date the rider is exercised	$100 (if elected after policy issue)
Exercising Living Benefits Rider	At the time of the transaction	$250

(1) This charge varies based on individual characteristics of the insured, and may not be representative of the charge that you will pay. Your financial professional can provide you with more information about these charges as they relate to the insured’s particular characteristics. See “Deducting policy charges” under “More information about policy charges” in the policy prospectus.

(2) Not applicable after the insured person reaches age 121.

(3) Insured persons who present particular health, occupational or vocational risks may be charged other additional charges as specified in their policies.

(4) Our amount “at risk” is the difference between the amount of death benefit and the policy account value as of the deduction date.

(5) For more information about the MSO, please refer to the separate MSO prospectus.

(6) We charge interest on policy loans but credit you with interest on the amount of the policy account value we hold as collateral for the loan. The rate is the greater of (a) 2.0% or (b) the “Monthly Average Corporate” yield published by Moody’s Corporate Bond Yield Averages for the month that ends two months before the interest rate is set. The loan interest spread is the excess of the interest rate we charge over the interest rate we credit, which will not exceed 1%. For more information on the maximum rate see “Borrowing from your policy — Loan interest we charge” in “Accessing your money” in the policy prospectus.

(7) Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for information about the MSO and related charges and deductions, as well as the meaning of special terms that are relevant to the MSO (such as “Segment,” “Segment Term,” “Segment Start Date,” “Segment Account Value” and “Early Distribution Adjustment”).

(8) Currently we deduct this charge at a 0.40% annual rate, rather than at the maximum rate shown.

(9) We charge interest on policy loans but credit you with interest on the amount of the policy account value we hold as collateral for the loan. The “spread” is the difference between the interest rate we charge you on a policy loan and the interest rate we credit to you on the amount of your policy account value that we hold as collateral for the loan. Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for more information.

(10) This is the maximum rate for an insured person who has attained age 75. The rate declines each year based on attained age.

The next item shows the minimum and maximum total operating expenses charged by the Portfolios that you may pay periodically during the time that you own the Policy. A complete list of Portfolios available under the Policy, including their annual expenses, may be found in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy”.

Annual Portfolio Company Expenses	Minimum	Maximum
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses before the effect of Expense Limitation Arrangements (expenses that are deducted from Portfolio asset, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fee, and other expenses)(1)	0.58%	3.01%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses after the effect of Expense Limitation Arrangements(1)	0.55%	1.65%

(1) “Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses” are for the year ended December 31, 2020 and may be based, in part, on estimated amounts of such expenses. Pursuant to a contract, Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC has agreed to make payments or waive its management, administrative and other fees to limit the expenses of certain affiliated Portfolios through April 30, 2022 (“Expense Limitation Arrangement”) (unless the Trust’s Board of Trustees consents to an earlier revision or termination of this agreement). The Expense Limitation Arrangement may be terminated by Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC at any time after April 30, 2022. The Expense Limitation Arrangement does not apply to unaffiliated Portfolios.

Investment Expense Reduction Applied to the Calculation of Daily Unit Values

We will apply an expense reduction in the calculation of the daily unit values of each variable investment option of our separate account (the “Investment Expense Reduction”). More information on the Investment Expense Reduction is provided in “More information about policy charges” in the Prospectus.

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Appendix: Investment options available under the policy

The following is a list of variable investment options available under the policy. More information about the variable investment options is available in the prospectuses for the Investment Options, which may be amended from time to time and can be found online at www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162723. You can request this information at no cost by calling 1-877-522-5035 or by sending an email request to EquitableFunds@dfinsolutions.com.

The current expenses and performance information below reflects fees and expenses of the variable investment options, but do not reflect the other fees and expenses that your policy may charge. Expenses would be higher and performance would be lower if these charges were included. Each variable investment option’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of future performance.

Affiliated Variable Investment Options:

Type	Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub-Adviser(s), as applicable			Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/2020)
		Current   Expenses		1 year		5 year		10 year
Specialty	1290 VT Convertible Securities - Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC (“EIMG”); SSgA Funds Management, Inc.		0.90%^		39.08%		18.19%		15.22%
Asset Allocation	1290 VT DoubleLine Dynamic Allocation - EIMG; DoubleLine Capital LP		1.20%^		13.10%		8.61%		8.80%
Fixed Income	1290 VT DoubleLine Opportunistic Bond - EIMG; DoubleLine Capital LP		0.95%^		4.26%		3.76%		4.01%
Equity	1290 VT Equity Income - EIMG; Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss LLC		0.95%^		-4.52%		1.55%		6.50%
Specialty	1290 VT GAMCO Mergers & Acquisitions - EIMG; GAMCO Asset Management, Inc.		1.30%^		-1.33%		0.66%		3.12%
Equity	1290 VT GAMCO Small Company Value - EIMG; GAMCO Asset Management, Inc.		1.07%		9.51%		4.48%		10.29%
Equity	1290 VT Low Volatility Global Equity - EIMG		0.91%^		-1.33%		4.51%		7.99%
Specialty	1290 VT Multi-Alternative Strategies - EIMG		1.65%^		4.54%		2.61%		—
Specialty	1290 VT Natural Resources - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.90%^		-15.65%		-6.96%		3.17%
Specialty	1290 VT Real Estate - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.90%^		-8.98%		1.57%		3.86%
Equity	1290 VT Small Cap Value - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Horizon Kinetics Asset Management, LLC		1.15%^		-1.51%		3.15%		8.99%
Equity	1290 VT SmartBeta Equity - EIMG; AXA Rosenberg Investment Management, LLC		1.10%^		10.95%		9.78%		11.26%
Equity	1290 VT Socially Responsible - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC		0.93%		20.01%		14.33%		14.62%
Equity	EQ/AB Small Cap Growth - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.92%		36.05%		17.01%		17.21%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Aggressive Allocation* - EIMG		1.16%		15.41%		9.45%		11.17%
Asset Allocation	EQ/All Asset Growth Allocation - EIMG		1.25%		12.29%		7.33%		9.44%
Equity	EQ/American Century Mid Cap Value - EIMG; American Century Investment Management, Inc.		1.00%^		1.32%		—		—
Equity	EQ/ClearBridge Large Cap Growth - EIMG; ClearBridge Investment, LLC		1.00%^		30.85%		19.85%		16.87%
Equity	EQ/Common Stock Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.68%^		19.76%		13.68%		14.61%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Conservative Allocation* - EIMG		1.00%^		7.35%		4.90%		4.51%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Conservative Plus Allocation* - EIMG		1.09%		9.96%		6.33%		6.51%
Fixed Income	EQ/Core Bond Index - EIMG; SSgA Funds Management, Inc.		0.65%^		6.09%		4.17%		3.06%
Equity	EQ/Emerging Markets Equity PLUS - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.; EARNST Partners, LLC		1.29%^		14.10%		4.53%		10.91%
Equity	EQ/Equity 500 Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.55%^		17.76%		13.53%		14.52%
Equity	EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends - EIMG; Franklin Advisers, Inc.		0.87%^		16.19%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/Franklin Strategic Income - EIMG; Franklin Advisers, Inc.		0.93%^		4.99%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Goldman Sachs Mid Cap Value - EIMG; Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.		1.09%^		8.46%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/Intermediate Government Bond - EIMG; SSGA Funds Management, Inc.		0.65%^		4.34%		3.08%		2.00%

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Appendix: Investment options available under the policy

Type	Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub-Adviser(s), as applicable			Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/2020)
		Current   Expenses		1 year		5 year		10 year
Equity	EQ/International Core Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; EARNST Partners, LLC; Federated Global Investment Management Corp.; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.06%		8.45%		4.18%		7.44%
Equity	EQ/International Equity Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.79%^		3.89%		2.47%		6.26%
Equity	EQ/International Value Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Harris Associates L.P.		1.06%		4.20%		2.18%		5.81%
Equity	EQ/Invesco Comstock - EIMG; Invesco Advisers, Inc.		1.00%^		-0.77%		2.81%		8.52%
Equity	EQ/Invesco Global - EIMG; Invesco Advisers, Inc.		1.15%^		27.01%		12.95%		14.35%
Specialty	EQ/Invesco Global Real Assets - EIMG; Invesco Advisers, Inc.; Invesco Asset Management Ltd.		1.20%^		-12.22%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Janus Enterprise - EIMG; Janus Capital Management LLC		1.05%^		18.81%		16.77%		14.27%
Equity	EQ/JPMorgan Value Opportunities - EIMG; J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.		0.98%		11.09%		6.23%		11.39%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Core Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Capital International, Inc.; GQG Partners LLC.; Vaugh Nelson Investment Management		0.91%		16.36%		12.27%		13.63%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Growth Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.73%		37.36%		22.03%		20.08%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Growth Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; HS Management Partners, LLC; Loomis Sayles & Company, L.P.; Polen Capital Management, LLC; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		0.86%		31.99%		19.65%		18.48%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Value Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.75%		2.23%		5.39%		9.02%
Equity	EQ/Loomis Sayles Growth - EIMG; Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.		1.05%^		30.86%		18.60%		19.11%
Equity	EQ/MFS International Growth - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/ b/a MFS Investment Management		1.10%^		15.41%		10.01%		12.38%
Equity	EQ/MFS International Intrinsic Value - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.15%^		20.03%		—		—
Equity	EQ/MFS Mid Cap Focused Growth - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.10%^		29.76%		—		—
Specialty	EQ/MFS Technology - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.13%		46.83%		—		—
Specialty	EQ/MFS Utilities Series - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.05%^		5.55%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Mid Cap Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.72%		12.84%		7.71%		11.59%
Equity	EQ/Mid Cap Value Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Diamond Hill Capital Management, Inc.; Wellington Management Company, LLP		0.97%		4.99%		4.83%		8.77%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Moderate Allocation* - EIMG		1.08%		11.27%		6.98%		7.45%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Moderate Plus Allocation* - EIMG		1.12%		14.13%		8.47%		9.48%
Money Market	EQ/Money Market** - EIMG; BNY Mellon Investment Advisers, Inc.		0.71%		0.20%		1.00%		0.68%
Equity	EQ/Morgan Stanley Small Cap Growth - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.		1.15%^		95.74%		35.80%		27.59%
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Global Real Return - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.98%^		10.33%		5.59%		5.97%
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Real Return - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.84%^		11.28%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Total Return - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.75%^		8.58%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Ultra Short Bond - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.80%^		1.17%		1.56%		1.70%
Equity	EQ/Small Company Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.64%		19.73%		9.95%		12.81%
Equity	EQ/T. Rowe Price Growth Stock - EIMG; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		1.00%^		36.57%		20.77%		18.94%
Specialty	EQ/T. Rowe Price Health Sciences - EIMG; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		1.20%^		26.91%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Value Equity - EIMG; Aristotle Capital Management, LLC		0.92%		2.81%		5.30%		8.29%
Equity	Multimanager Aggressive Equity - EIMG; 1832 Asset Management U.S. Inc.; AllianceBernstein L.P.; ClearBridge Investments, LLC; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.; Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P.		0.98%		38.82%		22.70%		20.02%
Specialty	Multimanager Technology - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.; Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC; Wellington Management Company, LLC		1.25%^		53.26%		29.30%		26.79%

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Appendix: Investment options available under the policy

* EQ Managed Volatility Portfolios that include the EQ volatility management strategy as part of their investment objective and/or principal investment strategy, and the EQ/affiliated Fund of Fund Portfolios that invest in Portfolios that use the EQ volatility management strategy, are identified in the chart by a “†“. See “About the Portfolios of the Trusts” for more information regarding volatility management.

** The Portfolio operates as a “government money market fund.” The Portfolio will invest at least 99.5% of its total assets in U.S. government securities, cash, and/or repurchase agreements that are fully collateralized by U.S. government securities or cash.

^ This Portfolio’s annual expenses reflect temporary fee reductions.

Unaffiliated Variable Investment Options:

Type		Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub - Adviser(s), as applicable	Current   Expenses		Average Annual Total Returns     (as of 12/31/2020)
					1 year		5 year		10 year
Asset Allocation		American Funds Insurance Series® Asset Allocation Fund - Capital Research and Management CompanySM		0.80%		12.16%		10.31%		9.68%
Equity		American Funds Insurance Series® Global Small Capitalization Fund - Capital Research and Management CompanySM		1.24%		29.39%		14.15%		9.17%
Equity		American Funds Insurance Series® New World Fund® - Capital Research and Management CompanySM		1.09%^		23.29%		13.05%		6.28%
Asset Allocation		BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. - BlackRock Advisors, LLC		1.01%^		20.79%		9.17%		6.61%
Equity		ClearBridge Variable Mid Cap - Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC; ClearBridge Investments, LLC		1.10%		15.10%		10.33%		10.76%
Fixed Income		Delaware Ivy VIP High Income(1) - Delaware Management Company; Macquarie Investment Management Austria Kapitalanlage AG; Macquarie Investment Management Europe Limited; Macquarie Investment Management Global Limited		0.97%		6.03%		7.42%		6.52%
Equity		Delaware Ivy VIP Small Cap Growth(2) - Delaware Management Company; Macquarie Funds Management Hong Kong Limited; Macquarie Investment Management Global Limited		1.15%^		37.66%		15.59%		11.15%
Asset Allocation		Fidelity® VIP Asset Manager: Growth Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.94%		16.95%		9.82%		8.27%
Equity		Fidelity® VIP Growth & Income Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.79%		7.59%		11.34%		11.37%
Equity		Fidelity® VIP Mid Cap Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.87%		17.87%		10.79%		9.22%
Equity		Fidelity® VIP Value Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.92%		6.02%		9.13%		10.20%
Equity		Franklin Small Cap Value VIP Fund - Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC		0.93%		5.19%		10.77%		9.20%
Equity		Invesco V.I. Diversified Dividend Fund - Invesco Advisers, Inc.		0.96%		-0.13%		7.35%		9.71%
Asset Allocation		Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio - Janus Capital Management LLC		0.87%		14.03%		11.53%		9.95%
Fixed Income	��	Lord Abbett Bond Debenture Portfolio (VC) - Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC		0.91%		7.30%		7.41%		6.44%
Specialty		PIMCO CommodityRealReturn® Strategy Portfolio - Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		1.34%^		1.23%		2.54%		-5.49%
Equity		T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio II - T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		0.99%^		0.96%		9.59%		8.94%
Equity		Templeton Developing Markets VIP Fund - Templeton Asset Management Ltd.		1.44%		17.18%		15.57%		3.66%
Specialty		Templeton Global Bond VIP Fund - Franklin Advisers, Inc.		0.74%^		-5.28%		0.66%		1.56%
Specialty		VanEck VIP Global Resources Fund - Van Eck Associates Corporation		1.38%		18.83%		5.93%		-3.83%

^ This Portfolio’s annual expenses reflect temporary fee reductions.

⁽¹⁾ This is the variable investment option’s new name. The variable investment option’s former name is Ivy VIP High Income which may continue to be used in certain documents for a period of time after the date of this Prospectus.

⁽²⁾  This is the variable investment option’s new name. The variable investment option’s former name is Ivy VIP Small Cap Growth which may continue to be used in certain documents for a period of time after the date of this Prospectus.

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Appendix: Investment options available under the policy

Back Cover Page

Equitable Advantage^SM

Issued by

Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company

1290 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10104

(212) 554-1234

We have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Prospectus and a Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) dated August 20, 2021 that include additional information about the policy, the Company and Separate Account FP. The Prospectus and SAI are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus. The Prospectus and SAI are available free of charge. To request a copy of either document, to ask about your contract, or to make other investor inquiries, please call 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.). The Prospectus and SAI are also available at our website, www.equitable.com.

SEC Contract Identifier: C000229053

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Equitable Advantage^SM

Prospectus dated August 20, 2021

An individual flexible premium variable and index-linked life insurance policy issued by Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America (the “Company”, “we”, “our” and “us”), formerly MONY Life Insurance Company of America with variable investment options offered under the Company’s Variable Account K. Variable and index-linked life insurance policies are complex investment vehicles and you should speak with a financial professional about policy features, benefits, risks and fees and whether the policy is appropriate for you based on your financial situation and objectives.

Additional information about certain investment products, including variable life insurance, has been prepared by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s staff and is available at Investor.gov.

Please read this prospectus and keep it for future reference. It contains important information that you should know before purchasing, or taking any other action under a policy. Also, you should read the prospectuses for each Trust, which contain important information about the Portfolios.

If you are a new investor in the policy, you may cancel your policy within 10 days of receiving it without paying fees or penalties. In some states, this cancellation period may be longer. In most states, we will refund the policy account value, plus any charges that were deducted, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. In other states, we will refund the premiums that were paid, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. You should review this Prospectus, or consult with your investment professional, for additional information about the specific cancellation terms that apply.

This prospectus describes the policy, but is not itself a policy. This prospectus is a disclosure document and describes all of the policy’s material features, benefits, rights and obligations, as well as other information. The description of the policy’s material provisions in this prospectus is current as of the date of this prospectus. If certain material provisions under the policy are changed after the date of this prospectus in accordance with the policy, those changes will be described in a supplement to this prospectus. You should carefully read this prospectus in conjunction with any applicable supplements. Certain optional features and benefits described in the prospectus may not be available at the time you purchase the policy. We reserve the right to restrict availability of any optional feature or benefit. In addition, not all optional features and benefits may be available in combination with other optional features and benefits. To make this prospectus easier to read, we sometimes use different words than the policy. The Company or your financial professional can provide any further explanation about your policy.

For information about income, estate and gift taxes in connection with life insurance policies as well as possible estate

and gift tax consequences, please see the Tax information section in this prospectus, including the information under “Estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes”.

What is the Policy?

The policy provides life insurance coverage, plus the opportunity for you to earn a return in (i) our guaranteed interest option, (ii) an investment option we refer to as the Market Stabilizer Option^®, if available, which is described in the separate Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus and/or (iii) one or more variable investment options set forth in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this prospectus.

The MSO gives you the opportunity to earn interest that we will credit based in part on the performance of the S&P 500 Price Return Index, excluding dividends, over approximately a one year period, although you could also experience a negative return and a significant loss of principal and previously credited interest.

One of the investment options that may be available to you under your policy is the Market Stabilizer Option^® (“MSO”). If you are interested in allocating amounts to the MSOs, please refer to the separate MSO prospectus, which contains additional information relating to the MSO. If you did not receive an MSO prospectus and wish to obtain one, please call us at 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.).

Amounts that you allocate under your policy to any of the variable investment options are invested in a corresponding “Portfolio” that is part of one of the trusts (the “Trusts”), which are mutual funds. Please see Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this prospectus for more detailed information about the Portfolios and the Trusts. Your investment results in a variable investment option will depend on those of the related Portfolio. Any gains will generally be tax deferred and the life insurance benefits we pay if the policy’s insured person dies will generally be income tax free. If you are the policy’s owner and the insured person, the death benefit will generally be includible in your estate for purposes of federal estate tax.

Other choices you have.  You have considerable flexibility to tailor the policy to meet your needs. For example, subject to our rules, you can (1) choose when and how much you contribute (as “premiums”) to your policy, (2) pay certain premium amounts to guarantee that your insurance coverage will continue for at least a certain number of policy years, regardless of investment performance, (3) borrow or withdraw amounts you have accumulated, (4) decrease the amount of insurance coverage, (5) elect to receive an

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insurance benefit if the insured person becomes terminally ill, and (6) obtain certain optional benefits that we offer by “riders” to your policy.

Other policies.  We offer a variety of fixed and variable life insurance policies which offer policy features, including investment options, that are different from those offered by this prospectus. Not every policy or feature is offered through your financial professional. Replacing existing insurance with this policy or another policy may not be to your advantage. You can contact us to find out more about any other insurance policy.

Electronic delivery of shareholder reports (pursuant to Rule 30e-3).  Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the SEC, paper copies of the shareholder reports for portfolio companies available under your policy will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports from the Company or from your financial intermediary. Instead, the reports will be made available on a website, and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the report.

If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may elect to receive shareholder reports and other communications electronically from the Company by calling 1-800-777-6510 or by calling your financial intermediary.

You may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. You can inform the Company or your financial intermediary that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports by calling 1-877-522-5035, by sending an email request to EquitableFunds@dfinsolutions.com, or by calling your financial intermediary. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all portfolio companies available under your policy.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has not approved or disapproved these securities or determined if this prospectus is accurate or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. The policies are not insured by the FDIC or any other agency. They are not deposits or other obligations of any bank and are not bank guaranteed. They are subject to investment risks and possible loss of principal.

Contents of this Prospectus

Definitions of Key Terms	5
Important information you should consider about the policy	7
Overview of the policy	10
Fee Table	12
1. Principal Risks of Investing in the policy	16
Risks of investing in a policy	16
How the variable life insurance policy is available	16
2. The Company	17
How to reach us	18
About our Equitable America Variable Account K	18
Your voting privileges	19
About the Trusts	19
3. About the Portfolios of the Trusts	20
Portfolios of the Trusts
4. Payment of premiums and determining your policy’s value	22
How you can pay for and contribute to your policy	22
The minimum amount of premiums you must pay	23
You can guarantee that your policy will not terminate before a certain date	23
Investment options within your policy	24
Your policy account value	24
Customer loyalty credit	25
5. Transferring your money among our investment options	27
Transfers you can make	27
Transfers into and out of the MSO	27
How to make transfers	27
Our automatic transfer service	28
Our asset rebalancing service	28

“Financial professional” means the registered representative of either Equitable Advisors, LLC (Equitable Financial Advisors in MI and TN) or an unaffiliated broker dealer which has entered into a selling agreement with Equitable Distributors, LLC who is offering you this policy.

When we address the reader of this prospectus with words such as “you” and “your,” we mean the person or persons having the right or responsibility that the prospectus is discussing at that point. This usually is the policy’s owner. If a policy has more than one owner, all owners must join in the exercise of any rights an owner has under the policy, and the word “owner” therefore refers to all owners.

When we use the word “state” we also mean any other local jurisdiction whose laws or regulations affect a policy.

This prospectus does not offer the policy anywhere such offers are not lawful. The Company does not authorize any information or representation about the offering other than that contained or incorporated in this prospectus, in any current supplements thereto, or in any related sales materials authorized by the Company.

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6. Death benefits and accessing your money	29
About your life insurance benefit	29
You can decrease your insurance coverage	29
Alternative higher death benefit in certain cases	29
Your options for receiving policy proceeds	30
Accessing your money	30
Borrowing from your policy	31
Making withdrawals from your policy	32
Surrendering your policy for its net cash surrender value	32
7. Tax information	34
Basic income tax treatment for you and your beneficiary	34
Tax treatment of distributions to you (loans, partial withdrawals, and full surrender)	34
Tax treatment of Living Benefits Rider with the rider	36
Business and employer owned policies	36
Requirement that we diversify investments	37
Estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes	37
Pension and profit-sharing plans	37
Split-dollar and other employee benefit programs	37
ERISA	38
3.8% Tax on Net Investment Income or “NII”	38
Our taxes	38
Tax withholding and information reporting	38
Possibility of future tax changes and other tax information	38
8. Other benefits available under the policy	40
Other benefits you can add by rider	42
Charitable Legacy Rider	42
Living Benefits Rider	42
No-Lapse Guarantee Rider	43
Policy Continuation Rider	44
9. More information about policy charges	46
How we allocate charges among your investment options	46
Changes in charges	46
Deducting policy charges	46
Charges that the Trusts deduct	50
10. More information about procedures that apply to your policy	51
Your right to cancel within a certain number of days	51
Dates and prices at which policy events occur	51
Policy issuance	52
Ways to make premium and loan payments	53
Assigning your policy	53
Requirements for surrender requests	54
Gender-neutral policies	54
Future policy exchanges	54
Broker transaction authority	54

11. More information about other matters	55
About our general account	55
Transfers of your policy account value	55
Telephone and Internet requests	56
COVID-19	57
Cybersecurity risks and catastrophic events	57
Suicide and certain misstatements	57
When we pay policy proceeds	58
Changes we can make	58
Reports we will send you	59
Distribution of the policies	59
Legal proceedings	61
12. Financial statements of Equitable America Variable Account K and the Company	62
13. Personalized illustrations	63
Illustrations of policy benefits	63

Appendices
Investment options available under the policy	64
Hypothetical illustrations	67
Calculating the death benefit	70
State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits	71
Examples of how the Policy Continuation Rider works	72
Requesting more information Statement of Additional Information

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Definitions of Key Terms

Alternative Death Benefit — We will automatically pay an alternative death benefit if it is higher than the standard death benefit.

Amount at Risk — Our amount at risk on any date is the difference between (a) the death benefit that would be payable if the insured person died on that date and (b) the then total account value under the policy.

Beneficiary — The person or entity you designate to receive the death benefit payable at the death of the Insured.

Business Day — A business day is generally any day the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open for regular trading and generally ends at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (or as of an earlier close of regular trading). A business day does not include a day on which we are not open due to emergency conditions determined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. We may also close early due to such emergency conditions. Premium payments will be applied and any other transaction requests will be processed when they are received along with all the required information unless another date applies as indicated below.

• If your premium payment, transfer or any other transaction request containing all the required information reaches us on any of the following, we will use the next business day:

— on a non-business day;

— after 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on a business day; or

— after an early close of regular trading on the NYSE on a business day.

Cash Surrender Value — The cash surrender value is equal to the difference between your policy account value and any surrender charges that are in effect under your policy.

Cost of Insurance Charge — The monthly cost of insurance charge is determined by multiplying the cost of insurance rate that is then applicable to your policy by the amount we have at risk under your policy divided by $1,000.

Cost of Insurance Rates — The cost of insurance rates vary depending on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the individual characteristics of the insured, the face amount and the policy year.

Customer Loyalty Credit — A customer loyalty credit may be provided for policies that have been in force for more than a specified number of years depending on your age at policy issuance. This may be added to your policy account value each month.

Face Amount — The face amount represents the amount of insurance coverage you want on the life of the insured person.

Guaranteed Interest Account — This is a fixed account that is part of our General Account.

Guarantee Premium — You can generally guarantee that your policy will not terminate for a number of years by paying at least certain specified amounts of premiums. We call these amounts “guarantee premiums” and they will be set forth in your policy.

Insured — The insured is the person on whose life we base this policy.

Market Stabilizer Option^® (“MSO”) — The MSO is an optional rider that provides you with the opportunity to earn interest that we will credit based in part on the performance of the S&P 500 Price Return Index subject to a possible negative return and a significant loss of principal and previously credited interest. Please see the Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus for more information.

Net Cash Surrender Value — The net cash surrender value equals your policy account value, minus any outstanding loan and unpaid loan interest, minus any amount of your policy account value that is “restricted” as a result of previously distributed terminal illness living benefits, and minus any surrender charge that then remains applicable. If you have transferred policy amounts to the MSO, please refer to the Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus for information about how we determine the net cash surrender value of that portion of your policy account value.

Net Policy Account Value — Your “net policy account value” is the total of (i) your amounts in our variable investment options, (ii) your amounts in our guaranteed interest option and (iii) any interest credited on loaned amounts, minus any interest accrued on outstanding loans and minus any “restricted” amounts that we hold in the guaranteed interest option as a result of any payment received under a living benefits rider. The account value of any policy amounts transferred to the Market Stabilizer Option^® is also included in your net policy account value, and is calculated as described in the separate Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus.

No-Lapse Guarantee — This is a rider we offer for no extra charge that provides you with a guarantee against policy termination for a specific period of time.

Owner — The owner of the policy. “You” or “your” refers to the owner.

Policy — The policy with any attached application(s), any riders, and any endorsements.

Policy Account Value — Your “policy account value” is the total of (i) your amounts in our variable investment options, (ii) your amounts in our guaranteed interest option and (iii) any amounts that we are holding to secure policy loans that

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you have taken (including any interest on those amounts which has not yet been allocated to the investment options). See “Borrowing from your policy” in this prospectus. The account value of any policy amounts transferred to the Market Stabilizer Option^® is also included in your policy account value, and is calculated as described in the separate Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus.

Premium Payments — We call the amounts you contribute to your policy “premiums” or “premium payments.”

Register date — Your policy’s “register date” will be shown in your policy and is the date from which we measure the months, years and anniversaries of your policy. Your register date is determined as described in“policy issuance” under “More information about procedures that apply to your policy” in this prospectus.

Segment Maturity Date — The date on which a Segment Term is completed and the Index-Linked Rate of Return for that Segment is applied to a Segment Account Value.

Segment Maturity Value — This is the Segment Account Value adjusted by the Index-Linked Rate of Return for that Segment.

Segment Start Date — The Segment Start Date is the day on which a Segment is created.

Segment Term — The duration of a Segment. The Segment Term for each Segment begins on its Segment Start Date and ends on its Segment Maturity Date approximately one year later. We are currently only offering Segment Terms of approximately one year. We may offer different durations in the future.

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Important Information You Should Consider About the policy:

FEES AND EXPENSES
Charges for Early Withdrawals	We will not deduct a charge for making a partial withdrawal from your policy; however, if you surrender the policy in its first 10 years, you will be subject to a surrender charge of up to 5.59% of face amount. For example, if you surrender your policy in the first year and the policy face amount was $100,000, you could pay a surrender charge of up to $5,587. There is also an MSO Early Distribution Adjustment on amounts withdrawn before segment maturity which could result in a 90% loss of Segment Account Value. See MSO prospectus for more information. For more information on the impacts of withdrawals, please refer to “Making withdrawals from your policy” in this prospectus. For more information on surrender charges, please refer to “Deducting policy charges” in this prospectus.
Transaction Charges	In addition to surrender charges, you may be subject to other transaction charges, including charges on each premium paid under the policy, charges in connection with requests to decrease your policy’s face amount, transfer fees, and other special service charges (e.g., wire transfer charges, express mail charges, policy illustration charges, duplicate policy charges, policy history charges, and charges for returned payments). For more information on transaction charges, please refer to the “Fee Table” in this prospectus.
Ongoing Fees and Expenses (annual charges)	In addition to surrender charges and transaction charges, an investment in the policy is subject to certain ongoing fees and expenses, including fees and expenses covering the cost of insurance under the policy, administration and mortality risks, MSO and loan charges, and the cost of optional benefits available under the policy. Such fees and expenses may be based on characteristics of the insured (e.g., age, sex, risk class and particular health, occupational or vocational risks). You should view the information pages of your policy for rates applicable to your policy.
	You will also bear expenses associated with the variable investment options (the “Portfolios”) under the policy, as shown in the following table:

Annual Fee	Minimum	Maximum
Portfolios	0.58%	3.01%
Portfolio expenses are for the year ended December 31, 2020 and may be based, in part, on estimated amounts of such expenses and may change from year to year.
For more information on ongoing fees and expenses, please refer to the “Fee Table” in this prospectus and Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy”, which is part of this prospectus.
The Investment Expense Reduction may apply to the calculation of daily unit values of the variable investment options. The Investment Expense Reduction is described in further detail in the “Fee Table” in this prospectus.

RISKS
Risk of Loss	You may lose money by investing in the policy.
Not a Short-Term Investment	The policy is not a short-term investment and is not appropriate for an investor who needs ready access to cash. The policy is designed to provide benefits on a long-term basis. Consequently, you should not use the policy as a short-term investment or savings vehicle. Because of the long-term nature of the policy, you should consider whether purchasing the policy is consistent with the purpose for which it is being considered.
Risks Associated with Investment Options	An investment in the policy is subject to the risk of poor investment performance and can vary depending on the performance of the Portfolios available under the policy and the MSO and guaranteed investment option (GIO) each of which has its own unique risks. You should review the Portfolios’ prospectuses, the MSO prospectus and the “Guaranteed Interest Option” section in “Investment options within your policy” in this prospectus before making an investment decision. Portfolio prospectuses are available at www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162725.
	For more information on the Portfolios, please refer to Appendix: Investment options available under the policy in this prospectus.

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Insurance Company Risks	An investment in the policy is subject to the risks related to the Company. Any policy obligations (including under the fixed rate option and under the MSO), guarantees, or benefits are subject to the claims-paying ability of the Company. More information about the Company, including its financial strength ratings, is available at https://equitable.com/selling-life-insurance/financial-strength-ratings. More information about the Company’s general account can be found in “About our general account” in this prospectus.
Policy Lapse	Death benefits will not be paid if the policy has lapsed. Your policy may lapse if, due to insufficient premium payments, poor investment performance, withdrawals, unpaid loans or loan interest, your policy account value will not cover policy charges. If your policy is in default, you will be notified in writing and given an opportunity to make an additional payment to keep your policy in force and prevent it from lapsing. The grace period you have to make said additional payment will be 61 days long. If your policy lapses, you will be notified in writing and you may be able make additional payments to restore your policy’s benefits. In this case, additional requirements must also be met to restore your policy. If your policy provides for a no-lapse guarantee, you may have to pay more premiums to have the benefit of the no lapse guarantee. If your policy provides for a policy continuation feature, and the conditions of the rider are satisfied and the rider is exercised, including that there is sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge, then the policy will not lapse.
	For more information on how to prevent your policy from lapsing, please refer to “The minimum amount of premiums you must pay” and “You can guarantee that your policy will not terminate before a certain date” in this prospectus.
RESTRICTIONS
Investments	You may allocate your premiums to any of the Portfolios set forth in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” or to the GIO or the MSO. We reserve the right to remove or substitute Portfolios as investment options under the policy.
	Currently, the total of all transfers of variable investment options you make on the same day must be at least $500; except that you may transfer your entire balance in a single Portfolio, even if it is less than $500.
	We may limit transfers you can make into the GIO, if the current (non-guaranteed) interest crediting rate on the GIO is equal to the guaranteed minimum interest crediting rate of 1.0% (annual rate). For more information, please refer to “Guaranteed Interest Option” in “Investment options within your policy” in this prospectus.
	There may be restrictions upon transfers into and out of the MSO. For more information, see the MSO prospectus.
	We allow only one request for transfers each day (although that request can cover multiple transfers). Only written transfer requests submitted to our Administrative Office may be processed for policies that are jointly owned or assigned. We reserve the right to limit policy transfers if we determine that you are engaged in a disruptive transfer activity, such as “market timing.”
	For more information, please refer to “Variable investment options” and “Transfers you can make” in this prospectus.
Optional Benefits	As a policy owner, you may be able to obtain extra benefits, which may require additional charges. These optional benefits are described in what is known as a “rider” to the policy.
	Optional benefits are subject to additional charges and payments made under these benefits are generally subject to the same transaction fees as other premium payments but may be treated differently for other purposes (e.g., certain death benefit minimums). Optional benefits are not available for all ages (or may terminate at certain ages) and underwriting classifications. We may stop offering an optional benefit at any time.
	For more information on optional benefits and other limitations under the policy, please refer to “Other benefits available under the policy,” “Nonforfeiture Benefit” and “Suicide and certain misstatements” in this prospectus.

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TAXES
Tax Implications	You should consult with a tax professional to determine the tax implications of an investment in and payments received under the policy. There is no additional tax benefit to the investor if the policy is purchased through a tax-qualified plan or individual retirement account (IRA). Withdrawals will be subject to ordinary income tax, and may be subject to tax penalties.
	For more information on tax implications relating to policy investments, please refer to “Tax information” in this prospectus.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Investment Professional Compensation	Some financial professionals may receive compensation for selling the policy to you, both in the form of commissions or in the form of contribution-based compensation. Financial professionals may also receive additional compensation for enhanced marketing opportunities and other services (commonly referred to as “marketing allowances”). This conflict of interest may influence the financial professional to recommend this policy over another investment.
	For more information on investment professional compensation, please refer to “Distribution of the policies” in this prospectus.
Exchanges	Some investment professionals may have a financial incentive to offer you a new policy in place of the one you already own. You should only exchange your policy if you determine, after comparing the features, fees, and risks of both policies, that it is preferable to purchase the new policy, rather than continue to own your current policy.
	For more information on exchanges, please refer to the paragraph titled “Section  1035 exchanges of policies with outstanding loans” under “How you can pay for and contribute to your policy” in this prospectus, as well as the section titled “Future policy exchanges” in this prospectus.

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Overview of the policy

The following summaries provide a brief overview of the more significant aspects of the policy. We provide more complete and detailed information in the subsequent sections of this prospectus and in the statement of additional information and policy contract.

Brief Description of the policy

The policy is a form of variable life insurance, the primary purpose of which is to provide a death benefit which is paid upon the death of the insured person. The policy provides life insurance coverage, plus the opportunity for you to earn a return in (i) our guaranteed interest option, (ii) an indexed-linked investment option we refer to as the Market Stabilizer Option^®(“MSO”), if available, which is described in a separate prospectus and/or (iii) one or more of the Portfolios, which are listed in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this prospectus. The policy may be appropriate if you have a long-term investment horizon and is not intended for short-term investment, and is therefore not appropriate for people who may need to make early or frequent withdrawals or who intend to engage in frequent trading. You have considerable flexibility to tailor the policy to meet your needs.

Some policy forms, features and/or riders described in this prospectus may be subject to state variations or may not be available in all states. See Appendix: “State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits” for state availability and a description of all material variations to features and riders that differ from the description contained in the prospectus.

The form number for this policy is ICC21-21-100. A state and/or other code may follow the form number. Your policy’s form number is located in the lower left hand corner of the first page of your policy.

Premiums

The policy offers flexibility in paying premiums. With certain exceptions, you choose the timing and the amount of premium payments. Payment of insufficient premiums may result in a lapse of the policy.

A policy must satisfy the cash value accumulation test to qualify as a life insurance contract for tax purposes under the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”).

If at any time your policy account value is high enough that the alternative higher death benefit would apply, we reserve the right to limit the amount of any premiums that you pay, unless the insured person provides us with evidence of insurability satisfactory to us.

You can allocate your policy’s value to the Portfolios, to the guaranteed interest option or to the MSO, if available.

Additional information on the available Portfolios are listed in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy”. The guaranteed interest option pays a fixed rate of interest that we declare periodically with a 1.0% minimum. The MSO rider, if available under your policy, provides you with the opportunity to earn interest that we will credit based in part on the performance of the S&P 500 Price Return Index subject to the possibility of negative returns and significant loss of principal and previously credited interest. Different procedures and additional restrictions on withdrawals, loans, surrender and right to cancel apply to the MSO. For additional information see the MSO prospectus.

Contract Features

Types of Death Benefit – If the insured dies, we pay a life insurance benefit to the “beneficiary” you have named.

The standard death benefit under the policy is the policy’s face amount on the date of the insured’s death. The amount of this death benefit doesn’t change over time, unless you take any action that changes the policy’s face amount.

There is also an alternative higher death benefit paid in certain circumstances. For additional detail regarding the calculation and payment of death benefits see “Death benefits and accessing your money” in the prospectus.

Loans – You may borrow money from your policy, subject to certain limitations. Interest charges will apply.

Withdrawals – Subject to certain conditions, you may withdraw a part of your policy’s cash surrender value without surrendering the policy.

Surrendering the policy – A policy may be surrendered for its net cash surrender value while the insured is living. Surrender charges and/or tax penalties may apply.

Riders – You may be able to obtain extra fixed benefits under the policy, which may require additional charges. These optional insurance benefits are referenced herein as “riders” to the policy.

You may be eligible for the following riders:

• Charitable Legacy Rider: An optional rider may be elected at issue that provides an additional death benefit of 1% of the base policy face amount to the qualified charitable organization(s) chosen by the policy owner at no additional cost.

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• Living Benefits Rider: This feature enables you to receive a portion (generally the lesser of 75% or $250,000) of the policy’s death benefit (excluding death benefits payable under certain other policy riders), if the insured person has a terminal illness (as defined in the rider). We make no additional charge for the rider, but we will deduct a one-time administrative charge of up to $250 from any living benefit we pay. This rider will automatically be included at issue if you apply for a face amount of at least $100,000. There will be a $100 administrative charge if this rider is not added at issue.

• No-Lapse Guarantee Rider: This rider provides you with a guarantee against policy termination for a specific period of time. This rider is automatically added to policies at no additional cost.

• Policy Continuation Rider: Your policy offers an additional feature against policy termination due to an outstanding loan if the criteria for the Rider are satisfied, including when the net policy account value is insufficient to cover the monthly deductions, called “policy continuation.” If this rider is exercised, there is a one-time charge. See “Policy Continuation Charge” in this prospectus. This rider is automatically included in your policy.

Depending on when your policy was purchased, certain variations may apply which differ from the information contained in this section. In addition, depending on where your policy was issued, certain features or benefits may not be available or vary from the policy’s features and benefits described in this prospectus. Please see Appendix: “State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits” to this prospectus for more information.

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Fee Table

The following tables describe the fees and expenses that you will pay when buying, owning, and surrendering or making withdrawals from the policy. Please refer to your policy’s information pages for information about the specific fees you will pay each year based on the options you have elected.

The first table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay at the time that you buy the policy, surrender or make withdrawals from the policy, or transfer cash value between Portfolios.

Transaction Fees
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
Premium Charge	Upon each premium payment	5% of each premium(1)
Surrender (turning in) of your policy during its first 10 years(2)	Upon surrender	6% of each premium(3), not to exceed an amount per $1,000 of initial base policy face amount Highest: $55.87 Lowest: $20.63
Charge for a Representative Investor (male age 35 at issue in the preferred elite non-tobacco user risk class)	Upon surrender	Representative: $28.26
Request a decrease in your policy’s face amount during its first 10 years(2)	Effective date of the decrease	A pro rata portion of the charge that would apply to a full surrender at the time of the decrease.
MSO Early Distribution Adjustment	On surrender or other distribution (including loan) from an MSO Segment prior to its Segment Maturity Date	90% of Segment Account Value(4)
Transfer Fees	Upon transfer	$25 per transfer(5)
Special Services Charges •   Wire transfer charge(6) •   Express mail charge(6) •   Policy illustration charge(7) •   Duplicate policy charge(8) •   Policy history charge(8)(9) •   Charge for returned payments(8)	At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction	Charge: $90 Charge: $35 Maximum Charge: $25 Charge: $35 Maximum Charge: $50 Charge: $25

(1) Currently, we reduce this charge to 4% in year 1 after an amount equal to one sales load “target premium” has been paid. In years 2+, this charge is 4% for all premium paid. The “target premium” is actuarially determined for each policy, based on that policy’s specific characteristics, including the policy’s face amount, among other factors.

(2) This charge varies based on individual characteristics of the insured, and may not be representative of the charge that you will pay. In particular, the initial amount of the surrender charge depends on each insured’s specific characteristics. Your financial professional can provide you with more information about these charges as they relate to the insured’s particular characteristics. See “Deducting policy charges” under “More information about policy charges.”

(3) The surrender charge percentage of premium we use is determined by the policy year in which you surrender your contract to receive its cash value, or reduce the face amount of your policy as provided in the following table:

Table of Premium Based Surrender Charges
Policy Year of Premium Payment	Policy Year of Surrender
	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11+
1		6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%		0%		0%		0%		0%
2				6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%		0%		0%		0%
3						6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%		0%		0%
4								6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%		0%
5										6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%		0%
6												6%		5%		4%		3%		2%		0%
7														6%		5%		4%		3%		0%
8+																0%		0%		0%		0%

(4) The actual amount of Early Distribution Adjustment is determined by a formula that depends on, among other things, how a specified widely published stock market index has performed since the Segment Start Date. The maximum amount of the adjustment would occur if there is a total distribution at a time when that index had declined to zero. Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for more information about the index and Early Distribution Adjustment.

(5) No charge, however, will ever apply to a transfer of all of your variable investment option amounts to our guaranteed interest option, or to any transfer pursuant to our automatic transfer service or asset rebalancing service as discussed in this prospectus. The transfer change will not apply to amounts transferred into or out of the MSO. Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for more information about transfer charges.

(6) Unless you specify otherwise, this charge will be deducted from the amount you request.

(7) We do not currently charge this fee, but reserve the right to in the future.

(8) The charge for this service must be paid using funds outside of your policy. Please see “Deducting policy charges” under “More Information about policy charges” for more information.

(9) The charge for this service may be less depending on the policy history you request. Please see “Deducting policy charges” under “More Information about policy charges” for more information.

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The next table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay periodically during the time that you own the policy, not including Portfolio fees and expenses.

Periodic Charges Other Than Annual Portfolio Company Expenses
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
Base Contract Charge:
Administrative expenses(1)(2)	Monthly	(1)  Policy Year	Amount Deducted
		1      2+	$15 $10
		plus

	(2)  Charge per $1,000 of the initial base policy face amount:
	Highest: $1.60      Lowest: $0.33
Charge for Representative Investor (guaranteed rate for a male age 35 at issue in the preferred elite non-tobacco user risk class)	Representative: $0.37

Cost of Insurance(1)(2)(3): Minimum and Maximum Charge	Monthly	Charge per $1,000 of the amount for which we are at risk:(4) Highest: $83.34 Lowest: $0.03
Charge for a Representative Investor (male age 35 at issue; preferred elite non-tobacco user risk class)	Monthly	Representative: $0.12
Mortality and Expense Risk Fees	Monthly	Policy Year	Annual % of your value in our variable investment options and the MSO (if applicable)(5)
		1-10 11+	1.00% 0.50%

Loan Interest Spread(6)	On each policy anniversary (or on loan termination, if earlier)	1% of loan amount.
Optional Benefit Charges:
Charitable Legacy Rider	N/A	No additional charge.
Market Stabilizer Option® (MSO)(7)
MSO Variable Index Segment Account Charge	At the beginning of each policy month during the MSO Segment Term	1.65% calculated as an annual % of your Segment Account Value(8)
MSO loan spread(9) for Amounts of policy Loans Allocated to MSO Segment	On each policy anniversary (or on loan termination, if earlier)	5%
Policy Continuation Rider	Once- on the date the rider is exercised	The charge is equal to the policy account value on the date of exercise, multiplied by the Policy Continuation Charge Rate:
		Maximum rate: 13.10%(10)
Adding Living Benefits Rider	Once- on the date the rider is exercised	$100 (if elected after policy issue)
Exercising Living Benefits Rider	At the time of the transaction	$250

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(1) This charge varies based on individual characteristics of the insured, and may not be representative of the charge that you will pay. Your financial professional can provide you with more information about these charges as they relate to the insured’s particular characteristics. See “Deducting policy charges” under “More information about policy charges.”

(2) Not applicable after the insured person reaches age 121.

(3) Insured persons who present particular health, occupational or vocational risks may be charged other additional charges as specified in their policies.

(4) Our amount “at risk” is the difference between the amount of death benefit and the policy account value as of the deduction date.

(5) For more information about the MSO, please refer to the separate MSO prospectus.

(6) We charge interest on policy loans but credit you with interest on the amount of the policy account value we hold as collateral for the loan. The rate is the greater of (a) 2.0% or (b) the “Monthly Average Corporate” yield published by Moody’s Corporate Bond Yield Averages for the month that ends two months before the interest rate is set. The loan interest spread is the excess of the interest rate we charge over the interest rate we credit, which will not exceed 1%. For more information on the maximum rate see “Borrowing from your policy — Loan interest we charge” in “Accessing your money” in this prospectus.

(7) Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for information about the MSO and related charges and deductions, as well as the meaning of special terms that are relevant to the MSO (such as “Segment,” “Segment Term,” “Segment Start Date,” “Segment Account Value” and “Early Distribution Adjustment”).

(8) Currently we deduct this charge at a 0.40% annual rate, rather than at the maximum rate shown.

(9) We charge interest on policy loans but credit you with interest on the amount of the policy account value we hold as collateral for the loan. The “spread” is the difference between the interest rate we charge you on a policy loan and the interest rate we credit to you on the amount of your policy account value that we hold as collateral for the loan. Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for more information.

(10) This is the maximum rate for an insured person who has attained age 75. The rate declines each year based on attained age.

The next item shows the minimum and maximum total operating expenses charged by the Portfolios that you may pay periodically during the time that you own the policy. A complete list of Portfolios available under the policy, including their annual expenses, may be found in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy”.

Annual Portfolio Company Expenses	Minimum		Maximum
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses before the effect of Expense Limitation Arrangements (expenses that are deducted from Portfolio asset, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fee, and other expenses)(1)		0.58%	3.01%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses after the effect of Expense Limitation Arrangements(1)		0.55%	1.65%

(1) “Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses” are for the year ended December 31, 2020 and may be based, in part, on estimated amounts of such expenses. Pursuant to a contract, Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC has agreed to make payments or waive its management, administrative and other fees to limit the expenses of certain affiliated Portfolios through April 30, 2022 (“Expense Limitation Arrangement”) (unless the Trust’s Board of Trustees consents to an earlier revision or termination of this agreement). The Expense Limitation Arrangement may be terminated by Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC at any time after April 30, 2022. The Expense Limitation Arrangement does not apply to unaffiliated Portfolios.

You bear your proportionate share of all fees and expenses paid by a Portfolio that corresponds to any variable investment option you are using. This table shows the lowest and highest total operating expenses currently charged by any of the Portfolios that you will pay periodically during the time that you own the Policy. These fees and expenses are reflected in the Portfolio’s net asset value each day. Therefore, they reduce the investment return of the Portfolio and the related variable investment option. Actual fees and expenses are likely to fluctuate from year to year. More detail concerning each Portfolio’s fees and expenses is contained in the Trust prospectus for that Portfolio.

Investment Expense Reduction Applied to the Calculation of Daily Unit Values

We will apply an expense reduction in the calculation of the daily unit values of each variable investment option of our separate account (the “Investment Expense Reduction”). The Investment Expense Reduction for each variable investment option will be determined based upon the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses of each variable investment option’s corresponding Portfolio. The Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense is defined as the Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense after the application of any contractual expense limitation arrangements that are in place for more than one year.

The Investment Expense Reduction for each variable investment option will be initially determined and then annually updated, based upon the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense of each variable investment option’s corresponding Portfolio either (1) as shown in the annual Portfolio prospectuses dated on or about May 1st of each calendar year, for existing Portfolios which are effective as of that date; or (2) as shown in the initial effective Portfolio prospectuses, for new portfolios that become effective after that date, as applicable. The Investment Expense Reduction will be calculated based upon which of the three ranges (less than 0.80%, 0.80% through 1.15%, or greater than 1.15%) in the table below that the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense falls into. The ranges and formula amounts shown in the table below will not change while your policy remains in effect.

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During the year, the Investment Expense Reduction will be applied daily and will be equal to the daily equivalent of the annual Investment Expense Reduction percentage that is defined in the table below. You should be aware that actual portfolio operating expenses will generally fluctuate daily, so after the application of the Investment Expense Reduction, the resulting expenses you pay may increase or decrease from one day to the next. In addition, the Investment Expense Reduction for each variable investment option is not intended to exceed the portion of the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses of each variable investment option’s corresponding Portfolio applied as of the day each unit value is calculated.

For example, if the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense of a Portfolio is shown as 0.75% in the applicable Portfolio prospectus, then the annual Investment Expense Reduction would be calculated based upon the row of the table below that is labeled “Less than 0.80%,” and therefore the annual Investment Expense Reduction for the variable investment option investing in that Portfolio would be 0.35% (the greater of 0.15% and the excess of 0.75% over 0.40%). Furthermore, in this example, if the actual Net Total Portfolio Operating Expenses on any given day were below the daily equivalent of 0.35% annually, the Investment Expense Reduction for that day would not exceed the actual Net Total Portfolio Operating Expenses for that day.

If the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses (before the Investment Expense Reduction) are:	Then the annual Investment Expense Reduction(**) for that Variable Investment Option will be:
Less than 0.80%	The amount equal to the greater of 0.15% and any excess of the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense over 0.40%. However, in no event will the annual Investment Expense Reduction exceed the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses.
0.80% through 1.15%	The amount equal to the greater of 0.15% and any excess of the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense over 0.80%. However, in no event will the annual Investment Expense Reduction exceed the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses.
Greater than 1.15%	0.15%

** Because the expenses contained in the Trust prospectus for each Portfolio reflect annual expenses, the actual expenses incurred may be higher or lower on any given day.

After applying the Investment Expense Reduction to the variable investment options, the lowest and highest net annual portfolio operating expenses paid by the policy owner for the year ended December 31, 2020, would have been: Lowest
0.40% Highest
1.50%

You will find the Net total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses for each Portfolio, which will enable you to determine the applicable Investment Expense Reduction, in the separate Trust prospectuses. To obtain copies of Trust prospectuses, you may call 1-877-522-5035. Portfolio prospectuses are also available at www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162725.

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1. Principal risks of investing in the policy

Risks of investing in a policy

The policy is unsuitable as a short-term savings vehicle. The policy may be appropriate if you have a long-term investment horizon and is not intended for short-term investment, and is therefore not appropriate for people who may need to make early or frequent withdrawals or who intend to engage in frequent trading. The principal risks of investing in a policy are as follows:

• If the investment options you choose perform poorly, you could lose some or all of the premiums you pay.

• If the investment options you choose do not make enough money to pay for the policy charges, except to the extent provided by any no-lapse guarantee, you may have to pay more premiums to keep your policy from terminating.

• Your policy will lapse and possibly terminate without value if it does not have enough net policy account value to pay monthly charges when due, and this could occur due to insufficient premium payments, policy charges, policy loans, partial withdrawals, and/or poor investment performance. If your policy lapses and terminates you will not be paid a death benefit.

• If you take a policy loan or a partial withdrawal you may decrease the net policy account value, cash surrender value and/or death benefit and may risk the loss of the no lapse guarantee.

• There are unique risks associated with the MSO including loss of principal and previously credited interest up to 90% of Segment Account Value and adjustments in account value if amounts are withdrawn prior to the end of a Segment Term.

• We can increase, without your consent and subject to any necessary regulatory approvals, any charge that you currently pay at less than the maximum amount. We will not increase any charge beyond the highest maximum noted in the tables in “Fee Table” in this prospectus.

• There may be adverse tax consequences associated with taking a policy loan or making a partial withdrawal from your policy.

• You may have to pay a surrender charge and there may be adverse tax consequences if you wish to discontinue some or all of your insurance coverage under a policy.

• Partial withdrawals from your policy are available only after the first policy year and must be at least $500 and no more than the net cash surrender value. Under certain circumstances, we will automatically reduce your policy’s face amount as a result of a partial withdrawal.

• The guarantees we make to you under this policy are supported by the Company’s general account and are subject to the Company’s claims paying ability. You should look solely to the financial strength of the Company for its claims-paying ability.

Your policy permits other transactions that also have risks. These and other risks and benefits of investing in a policy are discussed in detail throughout this prospectus.

A comprehensive discussion of the risks of each variable investment option may be found in the Trust prospectus for that investment option and in the MSO prospectus.

How the variable life insurance policy is available

The policy is primarily intended for purchasers other than retirement plans. However, we do not place limitations on its use. Please see “Tax information” for more information. The policy is available for issue ages 18 to 65.

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2. The Company

We are Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America, an Arizona stock life insurance corporation organized in 1969. The Company is an affiliate of Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company (“Equitable”) and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Equitable Holdings, Inc. No other company has any legal responsibility to pay amounts that the Company owes under the policies. The Company is solely responsible for paying all amounts owed to you under your policy.

Equitable Holdings, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries managed approximately $800 billion in assets as of December 31, 2020. The Company is licensed to sell life insurance and annuities in forty-nine states (not including New York), the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Our main administrative office is located at 525 Washington Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07310.

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How to reach us

To obtain (1) any forms you need for communicating with us, (2) unit values and other values under your policy, and (3) any other information or materials that we provide in connection with your policy or the Portfolios, you may communicate with our Administrative Office as listed below for the purposes described. Please refer to “Telephone and Internet requests” for effective dates for processing telephone, Internet and fax requests, in this prospectus.

By mail:

At the Post Office Box for our Administrative Office:

Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America — Life Operations Center

P.O. Box 1047

Charlotte, North Carolina 28201-1047

By express delivery only:

At the Street Address for our Administrative Office:

Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America — Life Operations Center

8501 IBM Drive, Suite 150

Charlotte, North Carolina 28262-4333

1-704-341-7000 (for express delivery purposes only)

By Phone:

Monday to Thursday, 8:00 am to 7:00 pm and Friday, 8:00 am to 5:30 pm, Eastern Time: 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.).

By e-mail:

life-service@equitable.com

By fax:

1-855-268-6378

By Internet:

You may register for online account access at www.equitable.com. Our website provides access to account information and customer service. After registering, you can view account details, perform certain transactions, print customer service forms and find answers to common questions.

Required Forms.  We require that the following types of communications be on specific forms we provide for that purpose:

(1) request for our automatic transfer service (our dollar cost averaging service);

(2) request for our asset rebalancing service;

(3) transfers among investment options (if submitted by e-mail);

(4) designation of new policy owner(s);

(5) designation of new beneficiary(ies); and

(6) authorization for transfers by your financial professional.

Other Requests. We also have specific forms that we recommend you use for the following:

(a) policy surrenders;

(b) transfers among investment options (not submitted by e-mail); and

(c) changes in allocation percentages for premiums and deductions.

You can also change your allocation percentages, transfer among investment options and/or change your address (1) by phone, (2) over the Internet, through www.equitable.com or (3) by writing our Administrative Office. For more information about transaction requests you can make by phone or over the Internet, see “How to make transfers” and “Telephone and Internet requests” in this prospectus.

Certain methods of contacting us, such as by telephone or electronically, may be unavailable or delayed (for example our fax service may not be available at all times and/or we may be unavailable due to emergency closing). In addition, the level and type of service available may be restricted based on criteria established by us.

We reserve the right to limit access to these services if we determine that you are engaged in a disruptive transfer activity, such as “market timing.” (See “Disruptive transfer activity” in “More information about other matters.”)

Formal Requirements.  Except for properly authorized telephone or Internet transactions, any notice or request that does not use our standard form must be in writing. It must be dated and signed by you and should also specify your name, title (if applicable), the insured person’s name (if different), your policy number and adequate details about the notice you wish to give or other action you wish us to take. We may require you to return your policy to us before we make certain policy changes that you may request.

The proper person to sign forms, notices and requests would normally be the owner or any other person that our procedures permit to exercise the right or privilege in question. If there are joint owners all must sign. Any irrevocable beneficiary or assignee that we have on our records also must sign certain types of requests.

You should send all requests, notices and payments to our Administrative Office at the addresses specified above. We will also accept requests and notices by fax at the above number, if we believe them to be genuine. We reserve the right, however, to require an original signature before acting on any faxed item. You must send premium payments after the first one to our Administrative Office at the above addresses; except that you should send any premiums for which we have billed you to the address on the billing notice.

About our Equitable America Variable Account K

Each variable investment option is a part (or “subaccount”) of our Equitable America Variable Account K. We established

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Equitable America Variable Account K under Arizona Insurance Law in 2013. These provisions prevent creditors from any other business we conduct from reaching the assets we hold in our variable investment options for owners of our variable life insurance policies. We are the legal owner of all of the assets in Equitable America Variable Account K and may withdraw any amounts that exceed our reserves and other liabilities with respect to variable investment options under our policies. The assets under Equitable America Variable Account K may not be used to pay any liabilities of Equitable other than those arising from the policy. For example, we may withdraw amounts from Equitable America Variable Account K that represent our investments in Equitable America Variable Account K or that represent fees and charges under the policies that we have earned. Income, gains and losses credited to, or charged against Equitable America Variable Account K reflect its own investment experience and not the investment experience of the Company’s other assets.

Equitable America Variable Account K is registered with the SEC under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and is registered and classified under that act as a “unit investment trust.” The SEC, however, does not manage or supervise the Company or Equitable America Variable Account K. Although Equitable America Variable Account K is registered, the SEC does not monitor the activity of Equitable America Variable Account K on a daily basis. The Company is not required to register, and is not registered, as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Each subaccount (variable investment option) of Equitable America Variable Account K available under the policy invests solely in the applicable class of shares issued by the corresponding Portfolio of the applicable Trust. Equitable America Variable Account K immediately reinvests all dividends and other distributions it receives from a Portfolio in additional shares of that class in that Portfolio.

The Trusts sell their shares to the Company variable accounts in connection with the Company’s variable life insurance and/or annuity products, and to separate accounts of insurance companies, both affiliated and unaffiliated with the Company. EQ Advisors Trust and EQ Premier VIP Trust also sell their shares to the trustee of a qualified plan for Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company (“Equitable”), an affiliate of the Company. We currently do not foresee any disadvantages to our policy owners arising out of these arrangements. However, the Board of Trustees or Directors of each Trust intends to monitor events to identify any material irreconcilable conflicts that may arise and to determine what action, if any, should be taken in response. If we believe that a Board’s response insufficiently protects our policy owners, we will see to it that appropriate action is taken to do so.

Your voting privileges

Voting of Portfolio shares.  As the legal owner of any Portfolio shares that support a variable investment option, we will attend (and have the right to vote at) any meeting of shareholders of the Portfolio (or the Trusts). To satisfy currently-applicable legal requirements, however, we will give you the opportunity to tell

us how to vote the number of each Portfolio’s shares that are attributable to your policy. The number of full and fractional votes you are entitled to will be determined by dividing the policy account value (minus any policy indebtedness) allocable to an investment option by the net asset value per unit for the Portfolio underlying that investment option. We will vote shares attributable to policies for which we receive no instructions in the same proportion as the instructions we do receive from all policies that participate in our Equitable America Variable Account K (discussed below). With respect to any Portfolio shares that we are entitled to vote directly (because we do not hold them in a separate account or because they are not attributable to policies), we will vote in proportion to the instructions we have received from all holders of variable annuity and variable life insurance policies who are using that Portfolio. One effect of proportional voting is that a small number of policy owners may control the outcome of a vote.

Under current legal requirements, we may disregard the voting instructions we receive from policy owners only in certain narrow circumstances prescribed by SEC regulations. If we do, we will advise you of the reasons in the next annual or semiannual report we send to you.

Voting as policy owner.  In addition to being able to instruct voting of Portfolio shares as discussed above, policy owners that use our variable investment options may in a few instances be called upon to vote on matters that are not the subject of a shareholder vote being taken by any Portfolio. If so, you will have one vote for each $100 of policy account value in any such option; and we will vote our interest in Equitable America Variable Account K in the same proportion as the instructions we receive from holders of this policy and other policies that Equitable America Variable Account K supports.

About the Trusts

The Trusts are registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. They are classified as “open-end management investment companies,” more commonly called mutual funds. Each Trust issues different shares relating to each Portfolio.

The Trusts do not impose sales charges or “loads” for buying and selling their shares. All dividends and other distributions on the Trusts’ shares are reinvested in full. The Board of Trustees of each Trust serves for the benefit of each Trust’s shareholders. The Board of Trustees may take many actions regarding the Portfolios (for example, the Board of Trustees can establish additional Portfolios or eliminate existing Portfolios; change Portfolio investment objectives; and change Portfolio investment policies and strategies). In accordance with applicable law, certain of these changes may be implemented without a shareholder vote and, in certain instances, without advanced notice. More detailed information about certain actions subject to notice and shareholder vote for each Trust, and other information about the Portfolios, including portfolio investment objectives, policies, restrictions, risks, expenses, its Rule 12b-1 plan and other aspects of its operations, appears in the prospectuses for each Trust or in their respective SAIs, which are available upon request. For more information on the Portfolios, please refer to “Appendix: Investment options available under the policy” in this prospectus.

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3. About the Portfolios of the Trusts

We offer both affiliated and unaffiliated Trusts, which in turn offer one or more Portfolios. Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC (“Equitable IMG”), formerly AXA Equitable Funds Management Group, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Equitable, serves as the investment adviser of the Portfolios of EQ Premier VIP Trust and EQ Advisors Trust. For some affiliated Portfolios, Equitable IMG has entered into sub-advisory agreements with one or more other investment advisers (the “sub-advisers”) to carry out investment decisions for the Portfolios. As such, among other responsibilities, Equitable IMG oversees the activities of the sub-advisers with respect to the affiliated Trusts and is responsible for retaining or discontinuing the services of those sub-advisers. The chart in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” indicates the sub-adviser(s) for each Portfolio, if any. The chart in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” also shows the currently available Portfolios and their investment objectives.

The principal underwriters of the policy are Equitable Advisors, LLC (Equitable Financial Advisors in MI and TN), (“Equitable Advisors”) and Equitable Distributors, LLC (“Equitable Distributors”) (together the “Distributors”). Equitable Advisors is an affiliate of the Company and Equitable, and Equitable Distributors is an affiliate of the Company and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Equitable. You should be aware that Equitable Advisors and Equitable Distributors directly or indirectly receive 12b-1 fees from affiliated Portfolios for providing certain distribution and/or shareholder support services. These fees will not exceed 0.25% of the Portfolios’ average daily net assets. The affiliated Portfolios’ sub-advisers and/or their affiliates may also contribute to the cost of expenses for sales meetings or seminar sponsorships that may relate to the contracts and/or the sub-advisers’ respective Portfolios. In addition, Equitable IMG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Equitable, receives management fees and administrative fees in connection with the services it provides to the Portfolios. As such, it may be more profitable for us to offer affiliated Portfolios than to offer unaffiliated Portfolios.

The Company, the Distributors or our other affiliates may directly or indirectly receive 12b-1 fees and additional payments from certain unaffiliated Portfolios, their advisers, sub-advisers, distributors or affiliates, for providing certain administrative, marketing, distribution and/or shareholder support services. These fees and payments range from 0% to 0.60% of the unaffiliated Portfolios’ average daily net assets. The Distributors may also receive payments from the advisers or sub-advisers of the unaffiliated Portfolios or their affiliates for providing certain distribution services, including expenses for sales meetings or seminar sponsorships that may relate to the contracts and/or the advisers’ respective Portfolios.

As a policy owner, you may bear the costs of some or all of these fees and payments through your indirect investment in the Portfolios. (See the Portfolios’ prospectuses for more information.) These fees and payments, as well as the Portfolios’ investment management fees and administrative expenses, will reduce the underlying Portfolios’ investment returns. The Company or its affiliates may profit from these fees and payments. The Company considers the availability of these fees and payment arrangements during the selection process for the underlying Portfolios. These fees and payment arrangements may create an incentive for us to select Portfolios (and classes of shares of Portfolios) that pay us higher amounts.

Some affiliated Portfolios invest in other affiliated Portfolios (the “EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios”). The EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios offer policy owners a convenient opportunity to invest in other Portfolios that are managed and have been selected for inclusion in the EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios by Equitable IMG. Equitable Advisors may promote the benefits of such Portfolios to policy owners and/or suggest that policy owners consider whether allocating some or all of their account value to such Portfolios is consistent with their desired investment objectives. In doing so, the Company and/or its affiliates may be subject to conflicts of interest insofar as the Company may derive greater revenues from the EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios than certain other Portfolios available to you under your policy. Please see “Allocating your contributions” for more information about your role in managing your allocations.

As described in more detail in the Portfolio prospectuses, the EQ Managed Volatility Portfolios may utilize a proprietary volatility management strategy developed by Equitable IMG (the “EQ volatility management strategy”) and, in addition, certain EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios may invest in affiliated Portfolios that utilize this strategy. The EQ volatility management strategy employs various volatility management techniques, such as the use of ETFs or futures and options, to reduce the Portfolio’s equity exposure during periods when certain market indicators indicate that market volatility is above specific thresholds set for the Portfolio. When market volatility is increasing above the specific thresholds set for a Portfolio utilizing the EQ volatility management strategy, the adviser of the Portfolio may reduce equity exposure. Although this strategy is intended to reduce the overall risk of investing in the Portfolio, it may not effectively protect the Portfolio from market declines and may increase its losses. Further, during such times, the Portfolio’s exposure to equity securities may be less than that of a traditional equity portfolio. This may limit the Portfolio’s participation in market gains and result in periods of underperformance, including those periods when the specified benchmark index is appreciating, but market volatility is high.

The EQ Managed Volatility Portfolios that include the EQ volatility management strategy as part of their investment objective and/or principal investment strategy, and the EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios that invest in other Portfolios that use the EQ volatility management strategy, are identified in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this prospectus.

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Portfolios that utilize the EQ volatility management strategy (or, in the case of certain EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios, invest in other Portfolios that use the EQ volatility management strategy) are designed to reduce the overall volatility of your account value and provide you with risk-adjusted returns over time. During rising markets, the EQ volatility management strategy, however, could result in your account value rising less than would have been the case had you been invested in a Portfolio that does not utilize the EQ volatility management strategy or, in the case of the EQ Fund of Fund Portfolios, that invest exclusively in other Portfolios that do not use the volatility management strategy. Conversely, investing in investment options that feature a managed-volatility strategy may be helpful in a declining market when high market volatility triggers a reduction in the investment option’s equity exposure because during these periods of high volatility, the risk of losses from investing in equity securities may increase. In these instances, your account value may decline less than would have been the case had you not been invested in investment options that feature a volatility management strategy.

Please see the underlying Portfolio prospectuses for more information in general, as well as more information about the EQ volatility management strategy. Please further note that certain other affiliated Portfolios, as well as unaffiliated Portfolios, may utilize volatility management techniques that differ from the EQ volatility management strategy. Such techniques could also impact your account value in the same manner described above. Please see the Portfolio prospectuses for more information about the Portfolios’ objective and strategies.

Asset Transfer Program.  Portfolio allocations in certain of our variable annuity contracts with guaranteed benefits are subject to our Asset Transfer Program (ATP) feature. The ATP helps us manage our financial exposure in connection with providing certain guaranteed benefits, by using predetermined mathematical formulas to move account value between the EQ/Ultra Conservative Strategy Portfolio (an investment option utilized solely by the ATP) and the other Portfolios offered under those contracts. You should be aware that operation of the predetermined mathematical formulas underpinning the ATP has the potential to adversely impact the Portfolios, including their performance, risk profile and expenses. This means that Portfolio investments in contracts with no ATP feature, such as yours, could still be adversely impacted. Particularly during times of high market volatility, if the ATP triggers substantial asset flows into and out of a Portfolio, it could have the following effects on all contract owners invested in that Portfolio:

(a) By requiring a Portfolio sub-adviser to buy and sell large amounts of securities at inopportune times, a Portfolio’s investment performance and the ability of the sub-adviser to fully implement the Portfolio’s investment strategy could be negatively affected; and

(b) By generating higher turnover in its securities or other assets than it would have experienced without being impacted by the ATP, a Portfolio could incur higher operating expense ratios and transaction costs than comparable funds. In addition, even Portfolios structured as funds-of-funds that are not available for investment by contract owners who are subject to the ATP could also be impacted by the ATP if those Portfolios invest in underlying funds that are themselves subject to significant asset turnover caused by the ATP. Because the ATP formulas generate unique results for each contract, not all contract owners who are subject to the ATP will be affected by operation of the ATP in the same way. On any particular day on which the ATP is activated, some contract owners may have a portion of their account value transferred to the EQ/Ultra Conservative Strategy Portfolio investment option and others may not. If the ATP causes significant transfers of total account value out of one or more Portfolios, any resulting negative effect on the performance of those Portfolios will be experienced to a greater extent by a contract owner (with or without the ATP) invested in those Portfolios whose account value was not subject to the transfers.

Information regarding each Portfolio, including (i) its name; (ii) its type (e.g., money market fund, bond fund, balanced fund, etc.); (iii) its investment adviser and subadviser(s), as applicable; (iv) current expenses; and (v) performance is available in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to the prospectus. Separate prospectuses that contain more detailed information about the Portfolios have been issued by their respective Trusts.

You should consider the investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses of the Portfolios carefully before investing. The prospectuses for the Trusts contain this and other important information about the Portfolios. The prospectuses should be read carefully before investing. In order to obtain copies of the Trust prospectuses, you may call 1-877-522-5035 or go to www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162725.

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4. Payment of premiums and determining your policy’s value

Max Underwriting Program (the “Max program”)

The Max program is an accelerated underwriting option that does not include the requirements for traditional underwriting such as an in-person paramedical exam, lab work or evaluation of an attending physician’s statement for the proposed insured. Instead, the Max program relies on data sources available electronically such as prescription history and your motor vehicle report. If approved, you will be eligible for a policy at a Select underwriting classification. The Select underwriting classification is only available for non-tobacco users.

The Max program is not available for a 1035 exchange, replacement or if you are converting from a term life policy or term rider. Instead of the Max program, traditional underwriting is an option. The traditional underwriting process may result in underwriting classifications that result in a lower cost of insurance charge. However, under traditional underwriting, you may be declined or you may obtain a rating which results in a higher cost of insurance charge. Issue ages for the Max program are 20-55.

The maximum face amount under the Max program is $2,000,000. The Max program may not be available in all jurisdictions.

How you can pay for and contribute to your policy

Premium payments.  We call the amounts you contribute to your policy “premiums” or “premium payments.” The amount we require as your first premium varies depending on the specifics of your policy and the insured person. Each subsequent premium payment must be at least $50, although we can increase this minimum if we give you advance notice. Otherwise, with a few exceptions mentioned below, you can make premium payments at any time and in any amount.

Section 1035 exchanges of policies with outstanding loans.  If we approve, you may purchase a policy through an assignment and exchange of another life insurance policy with a cash surrender value pursuant to a valid exchange under Section 1035 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). If such other policy is subject to a policy loan, we may permit you to carry over all or a portion of such loan to the policy, subject to our administrative rules then in effect. In this case, we will treat any cash paid, plus any loaned amount carried over to the policy, as premium received in consideration of our issuing the policy. If we allow you to carry over all or a portion of any such outstanding loan, then we will hold amounts securing such loan in the same manner as the collateral for any other policy loan, and your policy also will be subject to all our other rules regarding loans (see “Borrowing from your policy” in this prospectus).

You can generally pay premiums at such times and in such amounts as you like before the policy anniversary nearest to the insured’s 121st birthday, so long as you don’t exceed certain limits determined by the federal income tax laws applicable to life insurance.

The cash value accumulation test and limits on premium payments.  A policy must satisfy the cash value accumulation test to qualify as a life insurance contract for tax purposes under Section 7702 of the Code.

If at any time your policy account value is high enough that the alternative higher death benefit would apply, we reserve the right to limit the amount of any premiums that you pay, unless the insured person provides us with evidence of insurability satisfactory to us.

If your premium payments exceed certain other amounts specified under the Code, your policy will become a “modified endowment contract,” which may subject you to additional taxes and penalties on any distributions from your policy. See “Tax information” in this prospectus. We may return any premium payments that would cause your policy to become a modified endowment contract if we have not received a satisfactory modified endowment contract acknowledgment from you.

You can ask your financial professional to provide you with an illustration of policy benefits that shows you the amount of premiums you can pay, based on various assumptions, without exceeding applicable tax law limits. The tax law limits can change as a result of certain changes you make to your policy. For example, a reduction in the face amount of your policy may reduce the amount of premiums that you can pay and may impact whether your policy is a modified endowment contract.

You should discuss possible limitations on policy premiums with your financial professional and tax advisor before purchasing the policy.

Planned periodic premiums.  Page 3 of your policy will specify a “planned periodic premium.” This is the amount that you request us to bill you. However, payment of these or any other specific amounts of premiums is not mandatory. You need to pay only the amount of premiums (if any) necessary to keep your policy from lapsing and terminating as discussed below.

Premium Payment Plans

The following premium payment plans are available:

• Direct billing is available on monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual modes. The Company will send premium reminder notices approximately 25 days before the due date based on the mode chosen, i.e., monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually.

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• Military allotment billing is available on monthly mode only.

• Salary allotment is available on monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual modes. The minimum case requirement for new salary allotment billing units is five lives.

• Systematic billing is available on monthly and quarterly modes. Under systematic billing, the policy owner may specify the day of the month on which the premiums should be deducted from their account (draft date).

The premium payment plan and/or mode may be changed.

The minimum amount of premiums you must pay

Policy “lapse” and termination.  Your policy will lapse (also referred to in your policy as “default”) if your “net policy account value” is not enough to pay your policy’s monthly charges due to insufficient premium payments, poor investment performance, withdrawals, policy charges, unpaid loans or loan interest, when due unless:

• you have paid sufficient premiums to keep the no-lapse guarantee in effect, the no-lapse guarantee is still in effect and any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest does not exceed the policy account value (see “You can guarantee that your policy will not terminate before a certain date” below); or

• you satisfy the requirements of the Policy Continuation Rider including that there is sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge (see “Policy Continuation Rider” in “Other benefits available under the policy”).

We will mail a notice to you at your last known address if your policy lapses. You will have a 61-day grace period to pay at least an amount prescribed in your policy which would be enough to keep your policy in force for approximately three months (without regard to investment performance). You may not make any transfers or request any other policy changes during a grace period. If we receive the requested amount before the end of the grace period, it will be treated as a loan repayment to the extent it is less than or equal to any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest. The remainder of the payment, if any, will be treated as a premium payment. If your policy account value is still insufficient to cover total monthly deductions, we will send a written notice that a new 61-day grace period has begun and request an additional payment. If we do not receive your payment by the end of the grace period, your policy (and all riders to the policy) will terminate without value and all coverage under your policy will cease. We will mail an additional notice to you if your policy terminates.

If the insured person dies during a grace period, we will pay the death benefit, less any overdue charges (but not more than the guarantee premium amount required to keep the no-lapse guarantee in effect), policy loans or liens and accrued loan or lien interest, to the beneficiary you have named.

Your policy will terminate if you don’t pay enough premiums (i) to pay the charges we deduct, or (ii) to maintain the no-lapse guarantee that can keep your policy from terminating. However, we will first send you a notice and give you the

opportunity to pay any shortfall. For more information on the no-lapse guarantee see “Other benefits available under the policy” in this prospectus.

You may owe taxes if your policy terminates while you have a loan outstanding, even though you receive no additional money from your policy at that time. See “Tax information,” in this prospectus.

Restoring a terminated policy.  To have your policy “restored” (put back in force), you must apply within three years after the date of termination. You must also (i) present evidence of insurability satisfactory to us and (ii) pay at least the amount of premium that we require. The amount of payment will not be more than an amount sufficient to cover total monthly deductions for 3 months, calculated from the effective date of restoration, and the premium charge. We will determine the amount of this required payment as if no interest or investment performance were credited to or charged against your policy account. Your policy contains additional information about the minimum amount of this premium and about the values and terms of the policy after it is restored and the effective date of such restoration. You may only restore your policy if it has terminated without value. You may not restore a policy that was given up for its net cash surrender value. Any no-lapse guarantee also terminates and cannot be restored after the policy terminates.

You can guarantee that your policy will not terminate before a certain date

We offer a guarantee against policy lapse that depends on your having paid specified amounts of premiums. This is our No-Lapse Guarantee rider and you can read more about it in “Other benefits available under the policy” in this prospectus. We offer the No-Lapse Guarantee rider free of charge.

You can receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider

Subject to our insurance underwriting guidelines and availability in your state, your policy will automatically include our Living Benefits Rider if you apply for a face amount of at least $100,000. This feature enables you to receive a portion (generally the lesser of 75% or $250,000) of the policy’s death benefit (excluding death benefits payable under certain other policy riders), if the insured person has a terminal illness (as defined in the rider). The maximum aggregate amount of payments that will be paid under this Living Benefits Rider for all policies issued by the Company or an affiliate company on the life of the same insured person is $500,000. We make no additional charge for the rider, but we will deduct a one-time administrative charge of up to $250 from any living benefit we pay.

If you tell us that you do not wish to have the Living Benefits Rider added at issue, but you later ask to add it, there will be a $100 administrative charge. Also, we will need to evaluate the insurance risk at that time, and we may decline to issue the rider.

For more information about that rider, see “Your option to receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider” under “Other benefits available under the policy” in this prospectus.

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Investment options within your policy

Except as set forth in the next paragraph, we will initially put all unloaned amounts which you have allocated to variable investment options into such options on the later of the business day that we receive the full minimum initial premium at our Administrative Office or the register date of your policy (the “Investment Start Date”). Before this date, your initial premium will be held in a non-interest bearing account. See “policy issuance” in “More information about procedures that apply to your policy” in this prospectus.

In those states that require us to return your premium without adjustment for investment performance within a certain number of days (see “Your right to cancel within a certain number of days,” in this prospectus), we will initially put all amounts which you have allocated to the variable investment options into our EQ/Money Market investment option as of the later of the Investment Start Date and the issue date for 20 calendar days (the “Money Market Lock-in Period”). On the first business day following the Money Market Lock-in Period, we will reallocate that investment in accordance with your premium allocation instructions then in effect. For policies issued in these states, the “Allocation Date” is the first business day following the Money Market Lock-in Period. For all other policies, the Allocation Date is the Investment Start Date, and there is no automatic initial allocation to the EQ/Money Market investment option.

You provide such allocation instructions in your application to purchase a policy. You can change the premium allocation percentages at any time, but this will not affect any prior allocations. The allocation percentages that you specify must always be in whole numbers and total exactly 100%.

The policy is between you and the Company. The policy is not an investment advisory account, and the Company is not providing any investment advice or managing the allocations under your policy. In the absence of a specific written arrangement to the contrary, you, as the owner of the policy, have the sole authority to make investment allocations and other decisions under the policy. If your policy is sold by a financial professional of Equitable Advisors, your financial professional is acting as a broker-dealer registered representative, and is not authorized to act as an investment advisor or to manage the allocations under your policy. If your financial professional is a registered representative with a broker-dealer other than Equitable Advisors, you should speak with him/her regarding any different arrangements that may apply.

You can choose among variable investment options.

Variable investment options.  The available variable investment options are listed in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this prospectus. (Your policy and other supplemental materials may refer to these as “Investment Funds.”) The investment results you will achieve in any one of these options will depend on the investment performance of the corresponding Portfolio that shares the same name as that

option. That Portfolio follows investment practices, policies and objectives that are appropriate to the variable investment option you have chosen. You can lose your principal when investing in the variable investment options. In periods of poor market performance, the net return, after charges and expenses, may result in negative yields, including for the EQ/Money Market variable investment option.

The advisers who make the investment decisions for each Portfolio are set forth in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy.”

You will find other important information about each Portfolio in the separate prospectuses for each Trust, including a comprehensive discussion of the risks of investing in each Portfolio. To obtain copies of Trust prospectuses, you may call 1-877-522-5035 or go to www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162725. We may add or delete variable investment options or Portfolios at any time.

Guaranteed interest option.  You can also allocate some or all of your policy’s value to our guaranteed interest option. We, in turn, invest such amounts as part of our general assets. Periodically, we declare a fixed rate of interest (1.0% minimum) on amounts that you allocate to our guaranteed interest option. We credit and compound the interest daily at an effective annual rate that equals the declared rate. The rates we are declaring on existing policies at any time may differ from the rates we are then declaring for newly issued policies. The guaranteed interest option is part of what your policy and other supplemental material may refer to as the “Guaranteed Interest Account.”

We will pay at least 1.0% annual interest on our guaranteed interest option.

Market Stabilizer Option^®.  The MSO rider, if available under your policy, provides you with the opportunity to earn interest that we will credit based in part on the performance of the S&P 500 Price Return Index excluding dividends, over approximately a one year period. The S&P 500 Price Return Index includes 500 companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy, capturing 75% coverage of U.S. equities. The S&P 500 Price Return Index does not include dividends declared by any of the companies included in this Index. Any amount that you decide to invest in the MSO is allocated to a “Segment”, each of which has a specific start date and a limited duration. On the final day of the Segment, the index-linked return associated with that Segment will be applied to your Segment Account Value (as defined in the MSO Prospectus), and may be positive, zero or negative. Please be aware that the possibility of a negative return on this investment at the end of a Segment Term could result in a significant loss of principal and previously credited interest. Please see the Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus for more information.

Your policy account value

As set forth in this prospectus, we deduct certain charges from each premium payment you make. We credit the rest

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of each premium payment to your “policy account value.” You instruct us to allocate your policy account value to one or more of the policy’s investment options indicated in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this prospectus or to the MSO or the GIO.

Your “policy account value” is the total of (i) your amounts in our variable investment options, (ii) your amounts in our guaranteed interest option and (iii) any amounts that we are holding to secure policy loans that you have taken (including any interest on those amounts which has not yet been allocated to the investment options). See “Borrowing from your policy” in this prospectus. The account value of any policy amounts transferred to the Market Stabilizer Option^® (“MSO”) is also included in your policy account value, and is calculated as described in the separate Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus.

Your policy and other supplemental material may refer to the account that holds the amounts in (ii) and (iii) above as our “Guaranteed Interest Account.”

Your “net policy account value” is the total of (i) your amounts in our variable investment options, (ii) your amounts in our guaranteed interest option and (iii) any interest credited on loaned amounts, minus any interest accrued on outstanding loans and minus any “restricted” amounts that we hold in the guaranteed interest option as a result of any payment received under a living benefits rider. The account value of any policy amounts transferred to the Market Stabilizer Option^® is also included in your net policy account value, and is calculated as described in the separate Market Stabilizer Option^® prospectus.

Your policy account value is subject to certain charges discussed in “More information about policy charges” in this prospectus.

Your policy account value will be credited with the same returns as are achieved by the Portfolios that you select and interest credited on amounts in the guaranteed interest option, and is reduced by the amount of charges we deduct under the policy.

Your policy’s value in our variable investment options.  We invest the policy account value that you have allocated to any variable investment option in shares of the corresponding Portfolio. Your value in each variable investment option is measured by “units.”

The number of your units in any variable investment option does not change, absent an event or transaction under your policy that involves moving assets into or out of that option. Whenever any amount is withdrawn or otherwise deducted from one of your policy’s variable investment options, we “redeem” (cancel) the number of units that has a value equal to that amount. This can happen, for example, when all or a portion of monthly deductions and transaction-based charges are allocated to that option, or when loans, transfers, withdrawals and surrenders are made from that option. Similarly, you “purchase” additional units having the same value as the amount of any premium (after deduction of any premium charge), loan repayment, or transfer that you allocate to that option.

The value of each unit will increase or decrease each business day, as though you had invested in the corresponding Portfolio’s shares directly (and reinvested all dividends and distributions from the Portfolio in additional Portfolio shares). On any day, your value in any variable investment option equals the number of units credited to your policy under that option, multiplied by that day’s value for one such unit. The mortality and expense risk charge mentioned in this prospectus is calculated as a percentage of the value you have in the variable investment options and MSO, if applicable, and deducted monthly from your policy account based on your deduction allocations. For more information on how we allocate charges, see “How we allocate charges among your investment options” in this prospectus.

Your policy’s value in our guaranteed interest option.  Your policy’s value in our guaranteed interest option includes: (i) any amounts that have been allocated to that option, based on your request, and (ii) any “restricted” amounts that we hold in that option as a result of your election to receive a living benefit. See “Your option to receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider,” in this prospectus. We credit all of such amounts with interest at rates we declare from time to time. We guarantee that these rates will not be less than a 1.0% effective annual rate.

Amounts may be allocated to or removed from your policy’s value in our guaranteed interest option for the same purposes as described in this prospectus for the variable investment options. We credit your policy with a number of dollars in that option that equals any amount that is being allocated to it. Similarly, if amounts are being removed from your guaranteed interest option for any reason, we reduce the amount you have credited to that option on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

Customer loyalty credit

We provide a customer loyalty credit for policies that have been in force for more than a specified number of years depending on your age at policy issuance. If eligible, this credit is added to your policy account value each month on your monthly anniversary date. The dollar amount of the credit is a percentage of your unloaned policy account value, which is your policy account value less any value we are holding as collateral for any policy loans, as of your monthly anniversary date. This credit is not guaranteed.

The credit is calculated as an annual percentage of your unloaned policy account value that varies depending on (i) the issue age of the insured, (ii) the policy duration and (iii) the cumulative amount of premiums you have paid to date (less any withdrawals).

To qualify for the customer loyalty credit, a certain number of target premiums must be paid during the applicable time period based on your issue age, as provided in the table below.

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If you qualify for the customer loyalty credit, the starting date and currently applicable annual percentage rate that we will use to determine the total amount of your credit are shown below:

Issue Age	Qualification Requirements	Policy Duration	Credit  Percentage
18 – 29	5 target premiums by the end of the first 7 policy years or 2.25 target premiums by the end of the first 2 policy years	policy years 15 – 20  policy years 21 and later	0.45% 0.25%
30 – 39	5 target premiums by the end of the first 7 policy years or 2.25 target premiums by the end of the first 2 policy years	policy years 10 – 20  policy years 21 and later	0.45% 0.25%
40 – 49	4.5 target premiums by the end of the first 7 policy years or 2.25 target premiums by the end of the first 2 policy years	policy years 10 – 20  policy years 21 and later	0.45% 0.25%
50 – 65	3 target premiums by the end of the first 5 policy years or 2.25 target premiums by the end of the first 2 policy years	policy years 6 – 20 policy years 21 and later	0.45% 0.25%

The “target premium” is actuarially determined for each policy, based on that policy’s characteristics, and the policy’s face amount. The illustrations of policy Benefits that your financial professional will provide will contain more information regarding the amount of premiums that must be paid in order for the percentage credit to be applicable to your policy.

Because the policy is being first offered in 2021, no customer loyalty credit has yet been made to the policy.

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5. Transferring your money among our investment options

Transfers you can make

You can transfer among our variable investment options and into our guaranteed interest option. However, certain restrictions may apply.

After your policy’s Allocation Date, you can transfer amounts from one investment option to another subject to certain restrictions discussed below. Currently, the total of all transfers you make on the same day must be at least $500; except that you may transfer your entire balance in an investment option, even if it is less than $500. We reserve the right to restrict transfers among variable investment options as described in your policy, including limitations on the number, frequency, or dollar amount of transfers.

Please see “Investment options within your policy” in “Payment of premiums and determining your policy’s value” for more information about your role in managing your allocations.

Restrictions on transfers into the guaranteed interest option.  After the first two policy years and if the attained age of the insured is less than 65, we may limit transfers you can make into the GIO if the current (non-guaranteed) interest crediting rate on the GIO is equal to the guaranteed minimum interest crediting rate of 1.0% (annual rate). In this instance, the maximum amount that may be transferred from the variable investment options to the unloaned GIO in a policy year is the greater of: (a) $500 and (b) 25% of the total amount in the variable investment options at the beginning of the policy year. If this amount is exceeded in any policy year during which the transfer limit becomes effective, additional transfers into the unloaned GIO will not be permitted during that policy year while the limit remains in effect.

Current unrestricted transfers out of the guaranteed interest option.  We are relaxing our policy rules so that, beginning on the business day after the Allocation Date and thereafter, you may transfer any amount of unloaned policy account value out of the guaranteed interest option to any other investment option until further notice. If we decide to change our limitations on transfers out of the guaranteed interest option, we will provide you with notice of at least 30 days.

See the “How to make transfers” section below on how you can request a transfer.

Please note that the ability to make unresticted transfers from the guaranteed interest option does not apply to any amounts that we are holding as collateral for a policy loan or as “restricted” amounts as a result of your election to receive a living benefit, if available under your policy.

Transfers into and out of the MSO

If you elect to transfer account value to the MSO, there must be sufficient funds remaining in the guaranteed interest option to cover the Charge Reserve Amount (as defined in the MSO Prospectus). There are also additional restrictions that may apply. For more information about transfers into and out of the MSO, see “Transfers” in the “Description of the Market Stabilizer Option” section of the MSO Prospectus.

Disruptive transfer activity.  We reserve the right to limit access to the services described below if we determine that you are engaged in a disruptive transfer activity, such as “market timing” (see “Disruptive transfer activity” in “More information about other matters”).

How to make transfers

In general, transfers take effect on the date the request is received. However, any written, telephone, Internet or facsimile transaction requests received after 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) take effect the next business day.

Internet transfers.  Generally, you can make transfers over the Internet if you are the owner of the policy. You may do this by visiting www.equitable.com website and registering for online account access. This service may not always be available. The restrictions relating to transfers are described below.

Online transfers.  You can make online transfers by following one of two procedures:

• For individually owned policies for which you are the owner, by logging onto our website, described under “By Internet” in “How to reach us” in this prospectus; or

• For corporation and trust owned policies, we require a special authorization form to obtain access. The form is available on our website www.equitable.com or by contacting our Administrative Office.

Telephone Transfers.  Telephone transfers can be made by calling 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.); facsimile transfers can be submitted to 1-855-268-6378.

For more information, see “Telephone and Internet requests” in this prospectus. We allow only one request for transfers each day (although that request can cover multiple transfers). If you are unable to reach us via our website, you should send a written transfer request to our Administrative Office.

Transfers through our Administrative Office.  You may submit a written request for a transfer to our Administrative Office. We require a written request for jointly owned policies.

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Our automatic transfer service

We offer an automatic transfer service. This service allows you to gradually allocate amounts to the variable investment options by periodically transferring approximately the same dollar amount to the variable investment options you select. This will cause you to purchase more units if the unit’s value is low, and fewer units if the unit’s value is high. Therefore, you may achieve a lower average cost per unit over the long-term.

Using the automatic transfer service does not guarantee that you will earn a profit or be protected against losses.

Our automatic transfer service (also referred to as our “dollar cost averaging service”) enables you to make automatic monthly transfers from the EQ/Money Market option to our other variable investment options. You may elect the automatic transfer service with your policy application or at any later time (provided you are not using the asset rebalancing service described below). At least $5,000 must be allocated to the EQ/Money Market option to begin using the automatic transfer service. You can choose up to eight other variable investment options to receive the automatic transfers, but each transfer to each option must be at least $50.

This service terminates when the EQ/Money Market option is depleted. You can also cancel the automatic transfer service at any time by sending a written request to our Administrative Office. You may not simultaneously participate in the asset rebalancing service and the automatic transfer service.

We will not deduct a transfer charge for any transfer made in connection with our automatic transfer service.

Our asset rebalancing service

You may wish us to periodically redistribute the amounts you have in our variable investment options so that the relative amount of your policy account value in each variable option is restored to an asset allocation that you select. You can accomplish this automatically through our asset rebalancing service. The rebalancing may be at quarterly, semiannual, or annual intervals.

You may specify asset allocation percentages for all available variable investment options up to a maximum of 50. The allocation percentage you specify for each variable investment option selected must be at least 2% (whole percentages only) of the total value you hold under the variable investment options, and the sum of the percentages must equal 100%. You may not simultaneously participate in the asset rebalancing service and the automatic transfer service (discussed above).

You may request the asset rebalancing service in your policy application or at any later time by completing our enrollment form. At any time, you may also terminate the rebalancing program or make changes to your allocations under the program. Once enrolled in the rebalancing service, it will remain in effect until you instruct us in writing to terminate the

service. Requesting an investment option transfer while enrolled in our asset rebalancing service will not automatically change your allocation instructions for rebalancing your account value. This means that upon the next scheduled rebalancing, we will transfer amounts among your investment options pursuant to the allocation instructions previously on file for your rebalancing service. Changes to your allocation instructions for the rebalancing service (or termination of your enrollment in the service) must be in writing and sent to our Administrative Office.

We will not deduct a transfer charge for any transfer made in connection with our asset rebalancing service. Certain investment options, such as the guaranteed interest option, are not available investment options with the asset rebalancing service.

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6. Death benefits and accessing your money

About your life insurance benefit

As long as your incontestable policy is in force, we will pay the death benefit to your beneficiary or beneficiaries once we receive at our Administrative Office satisfactory proof of the Insured’s death. See your policy for more information on policy incontestability. The death benefit is determined as of the as of the date of death and generally paid within 7 days after proof of death and any other required documents are provided. For information on the commencement of insurance coverage, please see “policy issuance” under “More information about procedures that apply to your policy” in this prospectus.

Your policy’s face amount.  In your application to buy the policy, you tell us how much insurance coverage you want on the life of the insured person. We call this the “face amount” of the base policy. Generally, $100,000 is the minimum amount of coverage you can request. If you have elected the Charitable Legacy Rider, the minimum face amount is $1 million.

You can decrease your insurance coverage

You may request a decrease in your policy’s face amount any time after the second year of your policy but before the policy year in which the insured person reaches age 121. The requested decrease must be at least $10,000. Please refer to “Tax information” for certain possible tax consequences and limitations of changing the face amount of your policy.

We can refuse or limit any requested decrease. We will not approve any decrease if your policy is in a grace period.

Certain policy changes, including decreases in your insurance coverage, may also affect the guarantee premiums under the policy.

The following additional conditions also apply:

Face amount decreases.  You may not reduce the face amount below the minimum stated in your policy. Nor will we permit a decrease that would cause your policy to fail the Internal Revenue Code’s definition of life insurance. Guarantee premiums, as well as our monthly deductions for the cost of insurance coverage, will generally decrease from the time you reduce the face amount.

If you reduce the face amount during the first 10 years of your policy, we will deduct all or part of the remaining surrender charge from your policy account value. Assuming you have not previously changed the face amount, the amount of the surrender charge we will deduct will be determined by dividing the amount of the decrease by the initial face amount and multiplying that fraction by the total amount of surrender charge that still remains applicable to

your policy. We deduct the charge from the same investment options as if it were part of a regular monthly deduction under your policy.

In some cases, we may have to make a distribution to you from your policy at the time we decrease your policy’s face amount. This may be necessary in order to preserve your policy’s status as life insurance under the Internal Revenue Code. We may also be required to make such distribution to you in the future on account of a prior decrease in face amount. The distribution may be taxable.

If the insured person dies, we pay a life insurance benefit to the “beneficiary” you have named once we have received satisfactory proof of the insured’s death at our Administrative Office.

Your policy’s “death benefit” option.  The basic amount (or “benefit”) we will pay if the insured person dies is:

The policy’s face amount on the date of the insured person’s death. The amount of this death benefit doesn’t change over time, unless you take any action that changes the policy face amount.

Alternative higher death benefit in certain cases

Your policy is designed to always provide a minimum level of insurance protection relative to your policy account value, in part to meet the Code’s definition of “life insurance.”

We will automatically pay an alternative death benefit if it is higher than the standard death benefit.

The alternative death benefit is computed by multiplying your policy account value on the insured person’s date of death by a percentage specified in your policy. At ages greater than 99, this percentage is equal to 101%. At ages less than 100, this percentage is equal to the reciprocal of the net single premium per dollar of insurance calculated using an interest rate to ensure the contract meets the definition of life insurance as defined in section 7702 of the Code and mortality charges based upon the 2017 Commissioner’s Standard Ordinary Mortality Tables, and varies based upon the insured person’s age, sex and risk class. The death benefit is designed to be greater than the amount necessary to ensure that the policy’s cash surrender value does not at any time exceed the net single premium needed to fund future policy benefits under the contract, with all such terms as defined in section 7702 of the Code.

For example, under the cash value accumulation test, if the insured is age 65 at the time of death and has a policy with the face amount of $100,000, an account value of $85,000, and a death benefit percentage of 144.0%, then the death benefit is the alternative death benefit of 122,400. For more

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details regarding how we calculate the death benefit please see Appendix: “Calculating the death benefit” to this prospectus.

These higher alternative death benefits expose us to greater insurance risk than the standard death benefit. Because the cost of insurance charges we make under your policy are based in part on the amount of our risk, you will pay more cost of insurance charges for any periods during which a higher alternative death benefit is the operative one.

The operative period for the higher alternative death benefit is generally determined in connection with the requirements of the Code. The calculation of the death benefit is built into the monthly calculation of the cost of insurance charge, which is based on the net amount at risk. The need for the higher alternative death benefit is assessed on each monthly anniversary date, and on the death of the insured. Each policy owner receives an annual statement showing various policy values.

The annual statement shows the death benefit amount as of the policy anniversary, and that amount would reflect the alternative higher death benefit amount, if applicable at that time. This annual statement also reflects the monthly cost of insurance charge for the policy year, reflecting a higher net amount at risk in those months when the higher alternative death benefit is in effect.

Other adjustments to death benefit.  We will increase the death benefit proceeds by the amount of any other benefits we owe upon the insured person’s death under any optional riders which are in effect.

We will reduce the death benefit proceeds by the amount of any outstanding policy loan and unpaid loan interest, as well as any amount of monthly charges under the policy that remain unpaid because the insured person died during a grace period. We also reduce the death benefit if we have already paid part of it under a Living Benefits Rider. We reduce it by the amount of the living benefits payment plus interest. See “Your option to receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider” in this prospectus.

Your options for receiving policy proceeds

Beneficiary of death benefit.  You designate your policy’s beneficiary in your policy application. You can change the beneficiary at any other time during the insured person’s life. If no beneficiary is living when the insured person dies, we will pay the death benefit proceeds in equal shares to the insured person’s surviving children. If there are no surviving children, we will instead pay the insured person’s estate.

Payment of death benefit.  We will pay any death benefit in a single sum. If the beneficiary is a natural person (i.e., not an entity such as a corporation) and so elects, death benefit proceeds can be paid through the “Access Account”, which is a draft account that works in certain respects like an interest-bearing checking account. In that case, we will send the beneficiary a draftbook, and the beneficiary will have immediate access to the proceeds by writing a draft for all or part of the amount of the death benefit proceeds. The Company will retain the funds until a draft is presented for payment. Interest

on the Access Account is earned from the date we establish the account until the account is closed by your beneficiary or by us if the account balance falls below the minimum balance requirement, which is currently $1,000. The Access Account is part of the Company’s general account and is subject to the claims of our creditors. We will receive any investment earnings during the period such amounts remain in the general account. The Access Account is not a bank account or a checking account and it is not insured by the FDIC. Funds held by insurance companies in the general account are guaranteed by the respective state guaranty association.

A beneficiary residing outside the U.S., however, cannot elect the Access Account. If the beneficiary is a trust that has two or fewer trustees, death benefit proceeds can be paid through the Access Account.

If a financial professional has assisted the beneficiary in preparing the documents that are required for payment of the death benefit and the beneficiary so elects, we will send the Access Account checkbook or check to the financial professional within the periods specified for death benefit payments under “When we pay policy proceeds,” in this prospectus. Our financial professionals will take reasonable steps to arrange for prompt delivery to the beneficiary.

Accessing your money

You can access the money in your policy in different ways. You may borrow up to 90% of the cash surrender value, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest before the policy year in which the insured reaches age 75 (100% thereafter). However, the amount you can borrow will be reduced by any amount that we hold on a “restricted” basis following your receipt of a terminal illness living benefits payment, as well as by any other loans and accrued loan interest you have outstanding. We will charge interest on the amount of the loan. See “Borrowing from your policy” in this prospectus for more information.

You can also make a partial withdrawal of $500 or more of your net cash surrender value at any time after the first year of your policy and before the policy anniversary nearest to the insured’s 121st birthday. See “Making withdrawals from your policy” in this prospectus for more information.

Finally, you can surrender (turn in) your policy for its net cash surrender value at any time. You may have to pay surrender charges if you surrender your policy. See “Surrendering your policy for its net cash surrender value” in this prospectus.

Policy loans, partial withdrawals and policy surrender may have tax consequences. See “Tax information” in this prospectus for the tax treatment of the various ways in which you can access your money.

Automated Income Service

On or after the 10th policy anniversary, the automated income service permits a policy owner to request a start and end date for income payments on a periodic basis. Income payments can be made on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis. The income payment request can be made in the form

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of a percentage of the policy’s net cash surrender value or a specific dollar amount. Amounts withdrawn under the automated income service will be treated as a partial withdrawal up to the amount of your basis in the policy and then will be treated as a loan, if necessary, up to a maximum of 90% of the policy’s net cash surrender value. The income payments will continue until you instruct us to stop them or 90% of the policy’s net cash surrender value has been reached. See “Making withdrawals from your policy” below for more information about partial withdrawals and “Borrowing from your policy” below for more information on policy loans.

Borrowing from your policy

You may borrow up to 90% of the cash surrender value, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest before the policy year in which the insured reaches age 75 (100% thereafter). In your policy, the cash surrender value is equal to the difference between your policy account value and any surrender charges that are in effect under your policy. However, the amount you can borrow will be reduced by any amount that we hold on a “restricted” basis following your receipt of a terminal illness living benefits payment, as well as by any other loans (and accrued loan interest) you have outstanding. See “Your option to receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider” below. The minimum loan amount generally is $500.

You can use policy loans to obtain funds from your policy without surrender charges or, in most cases, paying current income taxes. However, the borrowed amount is no longer credited with the investment results of any of our investment options under the policy.

When you take a policy loan, we remove an amount equal to the loan from one or more of your investment options and hold it as collateral for the loan’s repayment. We hold this loan collateral under the same terms and conditions as apply to amounts supporting our guaranteed interest option, with several exceptions:

• you cannot make transfers or withdrawals of the collateral;

• we expect to credit different rates of interest to loan collateral than we credit under our guaranteed interest option;

• we do not count the collateral when we compute our customer loyalty credit; and

• the collateral is not available to pay policy charges.

When you request a loan, you should tell us how much of the loan collateral you wish to have taken from any amounts you have in each of our investment options. If you do not give us directions (or if we are making the loan automatically to cover unpaid loan interest), we will take the loan from your investment options in the same proportion as we are taking monthly deductions for charges. If that is not possible, we will take the loan from your investment options in proportion to your value in each.

Loan interest we charge.  The interest we charge on a policy loan accrues daily at an adjustable interest rate. We determine the rate at the beginning of each year of your policy and that rate applies to all policy loans that are outstanding at any time during the year. The maximum rate is the greater of (a) 2.0% or (b) the “Monthly Average Corporate” yield published in Moody’s Corporate Bond Yield Averages for the month that ends two months before the interest rate is set. (If that average is no longer published, we will use another average, as the policy provides.) Currently, the loan interest rate is 2.0% for the first ten policy years and 1.0% thereafter. We will notify you of the current loan interest rate when you apply for a loan and annually on the annual report, and will notify you in advance of any rate increase.

Loan interest payments are due on each policy anniversary. If not paid when due, we automatically add the interest as a new policy loan.

Interest that we credit on loan collateral.  Under our current rules, the annual interest rate we credit on your loan collateral during any of your policy’s first ten years will be 1% less than the rate we are then charging you for policy loan interest, and, beginning in the policy’s 11th year, equal to the loan interest rate. The elimination of the rate differential is not guaranteed, however. Accordingly, we have discretion to increase the rate differential for any period, including under policies that are already in force (and may have an outstanding loan). We do guarantee that the annual rate of interest credited on your loan collateral will never be less than 1.0% and that the differential will not exceed 1%.

We credit interest on your loan collateral daily. On each anniversary of your policy (or when your policy loan is fully repaid) we transfer that interest to your policy’s investment options in the same proportions as if it were a premium payment.

Effects of a policy loan.  If not repaid, the aggregate amount of the outstanding loan and any accrued loan interest will reduce your cash surrender value and your life insurance benefit that might otherwise be payable. We will deduct any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest from your policy’s proceeds if you do not pay it back. Also, a loan can reduce the length of time that your insurance remains in force, because the amount we set aside as loan collateral cannot be used to pay charges as they become due.

A policy loan, repaid or not, has a permanent effect on your cash surrender value and the death benefit. This results because the investment results of each investment option apply only to the amounts remaining in such investment options. The longer the loan is outstanding, the greater the effect on your cash surrender value is likely to be.

If your policy’s no-lapse guarantee is in effect and is important to you, you should ensure that the amount of any outstanding policy loans and accrued loan interest does not exceed your policy account value. The no-lapse guarantee will terminate if the amount of your outstanding policy loans and accrued loan interest is greater than your policy account value.

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Even if a loan is not taxable when made, it may later become taxable, for example, upon termination or surrender. A policy loan can affect your policy account value and death benefit, even if you have repaid the loan. See “Tax information” below for a discussion of the tax consequences of a policy loan.

Paying off your loan.  You can repay all or part of your loan at any time. We normally assume that payments you send us are premium payments unless the policy has lapsed and the payment is received during the 61-day grace period. See “policy ‘lapse’ and termination” in “The minimum amount of premiums you must pay” under “More information about policy charges” for more information. Therefore, you must submit instructions with your payment indicating that it is a loan repayment. If you send us more than all of the loan principal and interest you owe, we will treat the excess as a premium payment.

When you send us a loan repayment, we will transfer an amount equal to such repayment from your loan collateral back to the investment options under your policy. First we will restore any amounts that, before being designated as loan collateral, had been in the guaranteed interest option under your policy. We will allocate any additional repayments among the investment options as you instruct; or, if you don’t instruct us, in the same proportion as if they were premium payments.

Any portion of the loan repayment that we cannot allocate to the guaranteed interest option will be allocated to the variable investment options in proportion to any amounts that you specified for that particular loan repayment. If you did not specify, we will allocate that portion of the loan repayment in proportion to the premium allocation percentages for the variable investment options on record.

Borrowing from your policy when you allocated to the MSO.  If you have allocated policy amounts to the MSO and plan to take a loan from your policy, significantly different procedures and additional restrictions may apply. Please see “Loans” in the “Description of the Market Stabilizer Option” section of the MSO Prospectus for more information.

Making withdrawals from your policy

You may make a partial withdrawal of your net cash surrender value at any time after the first year of your policy and before the policy anniversary nearest to the insured’s attained age 121. The request must be for at least $500, however, and we have discretion to decline any request. If you do not tell us from which investment options you wish us to take the withdrawal, we will use the same allocation that then applies for the monthly deductions we make for charges; and, if that is not possible, we will take the withdrawal from all of your investment options in proportion to your value in each. We will not deduct a charge for making a partial withdrawal.

You can withdraw all or part of your policy’s net cash surrender value, although you may incur tax consequences by doing so.

Effect of partial withdrawals on insurance coverage. A partial withdrawal will result in a reduction in the cash surrender value and in your policy account value equal to the amount withdrawn as well as a reduction in your death benefit.

The death benefit after the withdrawal will be determined as described in “About your life insurance benefit” and “Alternative higher death benefit in certain cases” in this section, based on the policy account value and the base policy face amount after the withdrawal.

If the standard death benefit is higher than the alternative death benefit, a partial withdrawal will result in a dollar-for-dollar automatic reduction in the policy’s face amount (and, hence, an equal reduction in the death benefit). If the alternative death benefit is higher than the standard death benefit and if the death benefit minus the amount to be withdrawn is not lower than the standard death benefit, the policy’s face amount will not be reduced but the policy’s death benefit will be reduced by an amount greater than the amount to be withdrawn. If the alternative death benefit is higher than the standard death benefit and if the standard death benefit is higher than the death benefit minus the amount to be withdrawn, then the policy’s face amount will be reduced to an amount equal to the death benefit minus the amount to be withdrawn and the death benefit will be reduced by an amount greater than the amount to be withdrawn.

A partial withdrawal reduces the amount of your premium payments that counts toward maintaining the no-lapse guarantee. A partial withdrawal may increase the chance that your policy could lapse because of insufficient value to pay policy charges as they fall due or failure to pass the guarantee premium test for the no-lapse guarantee. There will be no proportionate surrender charge due to a decrease in base policy face amount resulting from a partial withdrawal.

We will not permit a partial withdrawal that would reduce the face amount below the minimum stated in your policy, or that would cause the policy to no longer be treated as life insurance for federal income tax purposes.

You should refer to “Tax information” below, for information about possible tax consequences of partial withdrawals and any associated reduction in policy benefits.

Making withdrawals from your policy if you have allocated to the MSO  If you have allocated policy amounts to the MSO and plan to take a withdrawal from your policy, significantly different procedures and additional restrictions may apply. Please see “Withdrawals” in the “Description of the Market Stabilizer Option” section of the MSO Prospectus for more information.

Surrendering your policy for its net cash surrender value

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any time. The net cash surrender value equals your policy account value, minus any outstanding loan and unpaid loan interest, minus any amount of your policy account value that is “restricted” as a result of previously distributed terminal illness living benefits, and minus any surrender charge that then remains applicable. The surrender charge is described in “Charges and expenses you will pay” in this prospectus.

Surrendering your policy if you have allocated to the MSO If you have allocated policy amounts to the MSO and plan to surrender your policy, significantly different procedures and additional restrictions may apply. Please see “Cash Surrender Value, Net Cash Surrender Value and Loan Value” in the “Description of the Market Stabilizer Option^®” section of the MSO Prospectus for more information.

Please refer to “Tax information” below for the possible tax consequences of surrendering your policy.

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7. Tax information

This discussion is based on current federal income tax law and interpretations. It assumes that the policy owner is a natural person who is a U.S. citizen and resident and has an insurable interest in the insured. The tax effects on corporate taxpayers, non-U.S. residents or non-U.S. citizens may be different. This discussion is general in nature, and should not be considered tax advice, for which you should consult a qualified tax advisor.

Basic income tax treatment for you and your beneficiary

The policy will be treated as “life insurance” for federal income tax purposes (a) if it meets the definition of life insurance under Section 7702 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) and (b) as long as the investments made by the underlying Portfolios satisfy certain investment diversification requirements under Section 817(h) of the Code. The following discussion assumes that the policies meet these requirements and, therefore, that generally:

• the death benefit received by the beneficiary under your policy will not be subject to federal income tax; and

• increases in your policy account value as a result of interest or investment experience will not be subject to federal income tax, unless and until there is a distribution from your policy, such as a surrender, a partial withdrawal, loan or a payment to you.

The IRS, however, could disagree with our position such that certain tax consequences could be other than as described. If it is subsequently determined that a policy does not satisfy the applicable requirements, we may take appropriate steps to bring the policy into compliance with such requirements and we reserve the right to restrict policy transactions in order to do so. There may also be different tax consequences if you assign your policy, transfer an interest therein or designate a new owner. See “Assigning your policy” in this prospectus. See also special rules below for “Business and employer owned policies,” and for the discussion of insurable interest under “Other information.”

Tax treatment of distributions to you (loans, partial withdrawals, and full surrender)

The federal income tax consequences of a distribution from your policy depend on whether your policy is a “modified endowment contract” (sometimes also referred to as a “MEC”). In all cases, however, the character of any income described below as being taxable to the recipient will be ordinary income (as opposed to capital gain).

Testing for modified endowment contract status.  Your policy will be a “modified endowment contract” if, at any time during the first seven years of your policy, you have paid a

cumulative amount of premiums that exceeds the cumulative seven-pay limit. The cumulative seven-pay limit is the amount of premiums that you would have paid by that time under a similar fixed-benefit insurance policy that was designed (based on certain assumptions mandated under the Code) to provide for paid up future benefits after the payment of seven equal annual premiums. (“Paid up” means that no future premiums would be required.) This is called the “seven-pay” test.

Whenever there is a “material change” under a policy, the policy will generally be (a) treated as a new contract for purposes of determining whether the policy is a modified endowment contract and (b) subjected to a new seven-pay period and a new seven-pay limit. The new seven-pay limit would be determined taking into account, under a prescribed formula, the policy account value at the time of such change.

A materially changed policy would be considered a modified endowment contract if it failed to satisfy the new seven-pay limit at any time during the new seven-pay period.

If your policy’s benefits are reduced during its first seven years (or within seven years after a material change), the seven-pay limit will be redetermined based on the reduced level of benefits and applied retroactively for purposes of the seven-pay test. (Such a reduction in benefits could include, for example, a requested decrease in face amount, the termination of additional benefits under a rider or, in some cases, a partial withdrawal.) If the premiums previously paid during its first seven years (or within seven years after a material change) are greater than the recalculated (lower) seven-pay limit, the policy will become a modified endowment contract.

A life insurance policy that you receive in exchange for a modified endowment contract will also be considered a modified endowment contract.

In addition to the above premium limits for testing for modified endowment status, federal income tax rules must be complied with in order for it to qualify as life insurance. Changes made to your policy, for example, a decrease in face amount (including any decrease that may occur as a result of a partial withdrawal), or other decrease in benefits may impact the maximum amount of premiums that can be paid, as well as the maximum amount of policy account value that may be maintained under the policy. We may also be required to provide a higher death benefit notwithstanding the decrease in face amount in order to assure that your policy continues to qualify as life insurance. Under either test, in some cases, this may cause us to take current or future action in order to assure that your policy continues to qualify as life insurance, including distribution of amounts to you that may be includible as income. See “Changes we can make” in this prospectus.

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Taxation of pre-death distributions if your policy is not a modified endowment contract.  As long as your policy remains in force as a non-modified endowment contract, policy loans will generally be treated as indebtedness, and no part of the loan proceeds will be subject to current federal income tax. Interest on the loan will generally not be tax deductible, although interest credited on loan collateral may become taxable under the rules below if distributed. However, there is some uncertainty as to the federal tax treatment of policy loans with a small or no spread between the interest rate charged and the interest rate credited on the amount loaned. You should consult a qualified tax adviser as to the federal tax treatment of such loans. Also, see below for taxation of loans upon surrender or termination of your policy.

If you make a partial withdrawal after the first 15 years of your policy, the proceeds will not be subject to federal income tax except to the extent such proceeds exceed your “basis” in your policy. (Your basis generally will equal the premiums you have paid, less the amount of any previous distributions from your policy that were not taxable.) During the first 15 years, however, the proceeds from a partial withdrawal could be subject to federal income tax, under a complex formula, to the extent that your policy account value exceeds your basis.

Upon full surrender, any amount by which the proceeds we pay (including amounts we use to discharge any policy loan and unpaid loan interest) exceed your basis in the policy will be subject to federal income tax. In addition, if a policy terminates after a grace period, the extinguishment of any then-outstanding policy loan and unpaid loan interest will be treated as a distribution and could be subject to tax under the foregoing rules. Finally, if you make an assignment of rights or benefits under your policy, you may be deemed to have received a distribution from your policy, all or part of which may be taxable.

Policy loans.  Policy loans can cause taxable income upon the termination of a policy with no cash payout. In the case of a surrender, the loan amount is taken into account in determining any taxable amount and such income can also exceed the payment received. These events can occur from potential situations which include: (1) amount of outstanding policy debt (loans taken plus unpaid interest amounts added to the outstanding loan) at or near the maximum loan value; (2) unfavorable investment results affecting your policy account value; (3) increasing monthly policy charges due to increasing attained ages of the insured; (4) high or increasing amount of insurance risk, and changing account value; and (5) increasing policy loan rates if an adjustable policy loan rate is in effect.

Ideally a policy loan will be paid from income tax free death benefit proceeds if your policy is kept in force until the death of the insured. To avoid policy terminations that may give rise to significant income tax liability, you may need to make substantial premium payments or loan repayments to keep your policy in force.

You can reduce the likelihood that these situations will occur by considering these risks before taking a policy loan. If you take a policy loan, you should monitor the status of your policy with

your financial representative and your tax advisor at least annually, and take appropriate preventative action. As indicated above, in the case of a policy that is a modified endowment contract (“MEC”), any loan will be treated as a distribution when made, and thus may be taxable at such time.

Taxation of pre-death distributions if your policy is a modified endowment contract.  Any distribution from your policy will be taxed on an “income-first” basis if your policy is a modified endowment contract. Distributions for this purpose include a loan (including any increase in the loan amount to pay interest on an existing loan or an assignment or a pledge to secure a loan) or withdrawal. Any such distributions will be considered taxable income to you to the extent your policy account value exceeds your basis in the policy. (For modified endowment contracts, your basis is similar to the basis described above for other policies, except that it also would be increased by the amount of any prior loan under your policy that was considered taxable income to you.)

For purposes of determining the taxable portion of any distribution, all modified endowment contracts issued by the Company (or its affiliates) to the same owner (excluding certain qualified plans) during any calendar year are treated as if they were a single contract.

A 10% penalty tax also will apply to the taxable portion of most distributions from a policy that is a modified endowment contract. The penalty tax will not, however, apply to (i) taxpayers whose actual age is at least 59¹/₂, (ii) distributions in the case of a disability (as defined in the Code) or (iii) distributions received as part of a series of substantially equal periodic annuity payments for the life (or life expectancy) of the taxpayer or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of the taxpayer and his or her beneficiary. The exceptions generally do not apply to life insurance policies owned by corporations or other entities.

If your policy terminates after a grace period, the extinguishment of any then outstanding policy loan and unpaid loan interest will be treated as a distribution (to the extent the loan was not previously treated as such) and could be subject to tax, including the 10% penalty tax, as described above. In addition, upon a full surrender, any excess of the proceeds we pay (including any amounts we use to discharge any loan) over your basis in the policy, will be subject to federal income tax and, unless an exception applies, the 10% penalty tax.

Distributions that occur during a year of your policy in which it becomes a modified endowment contract, and during any subsequent years, will be taxed as described in the four preceding paragraphs. In addition, distributions from a policy within two years before it becomes a modified endowment contract also will be subject to tax in this manner. This means that a distribution made from a policy that is not a modified endowment contract could later become taxable as a distribution from a modified endowment contract. So, for example, if a policy has been collaterally assigned as security for a loan and the policy subsequently becomes a MEC there could be a taxable deemed distribution even though the policy owner has not received any payment from us.

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Policy changes.  Changes made to a life insurance policy, for example, a decrease in benefits, or the termination or restoration of a terminated policy, may have other effects on your policy, including impacting the maximum amount of premiums that can be paid under the policy. In some cases, this may cause us to take action in order to assure your policy continues to qualify as life insurance, including distribution of amounts that may be includable as income. This action may be required under the tax law even though the policy may not be sufficiently funded to keep it in force for a desired duration. In some cases, premium payments for a policy year could be limited to the amount needed to keep the policy in force until the end of the policy year. You should carefully go over the implications of any policy changes with your advisor before making a change.

Restoration of a terminated policy.  For tax purposes, some restorations of a policy that terminated after a grace period may be treated as the purchase of a new policy. Since tax laws and regulations and their application may have changed by such time, there can be no assurance that we can reinstate the policy to qualify as life insurance under future tax rules.

Tax treatment of Living Benefits Rider under a policy with the rider

Living Benefits Rider.  Amounts received under an insurance policy on the life of an individual who is terminally ill, as defined by the tax law, are generally excludable from gross income as an accelerated death benefit. We believe that the benefits provided under our living benefits rider meet the tax law’s definition of terminally ill under section 101(g) of the Code and can qualify for this income tax exclusion.

If the owner and the insured person are not the same, the exclusion for accelerated death benefits for terminal illness or a chronic illness does not apply if the owner (taxpayer) has an insurable interest with respect to the life of the insured person by reason of the insured person being an officer, employee or director of the taxpayer or by reason of the insured person being financially interested in any trade or business carried on by the taxpayer.

If the owner and insured person are not the same, other tax considerations may also arise in connection with a transfer of benefits received to the insured person, for example, gift taxes in personal settings, compensation income in the employment context and inclusion of life insurance policy proceeds for estate tax purposes in certain trust owned situations. Under certain conditions, a gift tax exclusion may be available for certain amounts paid on behalf of a donee directly to their provider of medical care.

Business and employer owned policies

Any employer owned life insurance arrangement on an employee or director as well as any corporate, trade, or business use of a policy should be carefully reviewed by your tax advisor with attention to the rules discussed below. Also,

careful consideration should be given to any other rules that may apply, including other possible pending or recently enacted legislative proposals.

Requirements for income tax free death benefits.  Federal tax law imposes additional requirements for employer owned life insurance policies. The provisions can have broad application for contract owners engaged in a trade or business or certain related persons. These requirements include detailed notice and consent rules, annual tax reporting and recordkeeping requirements on the employer and limitations on those employees (including directors) who can be insured under the life insurance policy. Failure to satisfy applicable requirements will result in death benefits in excess of premiums paid by the owner being includible in the owner’s income upon the death of the insured employee. Notice and consent requirements must be satisfied before the issuance of the life insurance policy or a material change to an existing life insurance policy, otherwise benefits may lose their tax favored treatment.

The rules generally apply to life insurance policies issued after August 17, 2006. Note, however, that material increases in the death benefit or other material changes will generally cause an existing policy to be treated as a new policy and thus subject to the new requirements. The term “material” has not yet been fully defined but is expected to not include automatic increases in death benefits in order to maintain compliance with the life insurance policy tax qualification rules under the Code. An exception for certain tax-free exchanges of life insurance policies pursuant to Section 1035 of the Code may be available but is not clearly defined.

Limitations on interest deductibility for business owned life insurance.  Ownership of a policy by a trade or business can limit the amount of any interest on business borrowings that the entity otherwise could deduct for federal income tax purposes, even though such business borrowings may be unrelated to the policy. To avoid the limit, the insured person must be an officer, director, employee or 20% owner of the trade or business entity when coverage on that person commences. Proposals, if enacted, could narrow the exception unless the policy is grandfathered.

The limit does not generally apply for policies owned by natural persons (even if those persons are conducting a trade or business as sole proprietorships), unless a trade or business entity that is not a sole proprietorship is a direct or indirect beneficiary under the policy. Entities commonly have such a beneficial interest, for example, in so-called “split-dollar” arrangements. If the trade or business entity has such an interest in a policy, it will be treated the same as if it owned the policy for purposes of the limit on deducting interest on unrelated business income.

The limit generally applies only to policies issued after June 8, 1997 in taxable years ending after such date. However, for this purpose, any material change in a policy will be treated as the issuance of a new policy.

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business loans is determined by multiplying the total amount of such interest by a fraction. The numerator of the fraction is the policy’s average account value (excluding amounts we are holding to secure any policy loans) for the year in question, and the denominator is the average for the year of the aggregate tax bases of all the entity’s other assets. The above limitation is in addition to rules limiting interest deductions on policy loans against business-owned life insurance. Special rules apply to insurance company owners of policies which may be more restrictive.

Uses of policy which may be scrutinized. The IRS may view certain uses of life insurance policies as a tax shelter or as an abusive transaction. Please consult your tax advisor for the most up-to-date information as to IRS “Recognized Abusive and Listed Transactions” and how they may affect your policy.

Requirement that we diversify investments

Under Section 817(h) of the Code, the Treasury Department has issued regulations that implement investment diversification requirements. Failure to comply with these regulations would disqualify your policy as a life insurance policy under Section 7702 of the Code. If this were to occur, you would be subject to federal income tax on any income and gains under the policy and the death benefit proceeds would lose their income tax-free status. These consequences would continue for the period of the disqualification and for subsequent periods. Through the Portfolios, we intend to comply with the applicable diversification requirements, though no assurances can be given in this regard.

Estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes

If the policy’s owner is the insured person, the death benefit will generally be includable in the owner’s estate for purposes of federal estate tax. If the owner is not the insured person, and the owner dies before the insured person, the value of the policy would be includable in the owner’s estate. If the owner is neither the insured person nor the beneficiary, the owner will be considered to have made a gift to the beneficiary of the death benefit proceeds when they become payable.

In general, a person will not owe estate or gift taxes until gifts made by such person, plus that person’s taxable estate, total at least $10 million (this statutory amount is to be indexed for inflation after 2010). A portability rule generally permits a surviving spouse to elect to carry over the unused portion of the deceased spouse’s exclusion amount.

Certain amounts may be deductible or excludable, such as gifts and bequests to a person’s spouse or charitable institutions, as well as for certain gifts per recipient per year ($15,000 for 2021, indexed for inflation).

As a general rule, if you make a “transfer” to a person two or more generations younger than you, a generation-skipping tax may be payable. Generation-skipping transactions would include, for example, a case where a grandparent “skips” his

or her children and names his or her grandchildren as a policy’s beneficiaries. In that case, the generation-skipping “transfer” would be deemed to occur when the insurance proceeds are paid. The generation-skipping tax rates are similar to the maximum estate tax rates in effect at the time. Individuals, are generally allowed an aggregate generation-skipping tax exemption of the same amount discussed above for estate and gift taxes, but without portability.

The particular situation of each policyowner, insured person or beneficiary will determine how ownership or receipt of policy proceeds will be treated for purposes of federal estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes, as well as state and local estate, inheritance and other taxes. Because these rules are complex, you should consult with a qualified tax adviser for specific information, especially where benefits are passing to younger generations.

If this policy is used with estate and gift tax planning in mind, you should consult with your tax advisor as to the most up-to-date information as to federal estate, gift and generation skipping tax rules.

Pension and profit-sharing plans

There are special limits on the amount of insurance that may be purchased by a trust or other entity that forms part of a pension or profit-sharing plan qualified under Section 401(a) or 403 of the Code. In addition, the federal income tax consequences will be different from those described in this prospectus. These rules are complex, and you should consult a qualified tax advisor.

Split-dollar and other employee benefit programs

Complex rules may also apply when a policy is held by an employer or a trust, or acquired by an employee, in connection with the provision of other employee benefits. Employees may have imputed income for the value of any economic benefit provided by the employer. There may be other tax implications, as well. It is possible that certain split-dollar arrangements may be considered to be a form of deferred compensation under Section 409A of the Code, which broadens the definition of deferred compensation plans, and subjects such plans to new requirements. Further certain split-dollar arrangements may come within the rules for business- and employer-owned policies. Among other issues, policyowners must consider whether the policy was applied for by or issued to a person having an insurable interest under applicable state law and with the insured person’s consent. The lack of an insurable interest or consent may, among other things, affect the qualification of the policy as life insurance for federal income tax purposes and the right of the beneficiary to receive a death benefit.

If this policy is being or was purchased pursuant to a split-dollar arrangement, you should also consult your tax advisor for advice concerning the effect of the following guidance. In 2002 the IRS issued Notice 2002-8 concerning the taxation

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of split-dollar life insurance arrangements as well as regulations in both 2002 and 2003. They provide for taxation under one of two mutually exclusive regimes depending upon the structure of the arrangement. These are a loan regime and an economic benefit regime. Transition and grandfathering rules, among other items, should be carefully reviewed when considering such arrangements. A material modification to an existing arrangement may result in a change in tax treatment. In addition, public corporations (generally publicly-traded or publicly-reporting companies) and their subsidiaries should consider the possible implications on split-dollar arrangements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 which generally prohibit certain direct or indirect loans to executive officers or directors. At least some split-dollar arrangements could be deemed to involve loans within the purview of that section.

ERISA

Employers and employer-created trusts may be subject to reporting, disclosure and fiduciary obligations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. There may also be other implications. You should consult a qualified legal advisor.

3.8% Tax on Net Investment Income or “NII”

The 3.8% Medicare tax on certain unearned income of taxpayers whose adjusted incomes exceed certain thresholds applies to all or part of a taxpayer’s NII. As currently interpreted under IRS guidelines, NII includes the taxable portion of an annuitized payment from a life insurance contract. It has not been defined to include taxable amounts from partial withdrawals, surrenders or lapses of life insurance policies subject to loans. You should consult your tax advisor as to the applicability of this tax to you.

Our taxes

The operations of our separate accounts are reported in our federal income tax return. Separate account investment income and capital gains, however, are, for tax purposes, reflected in our variable life insurance policy reserves. Currently we pay no taxes on such income and gains and impose no charge for such taxes. We reserve the right to impose a charge in the future for taxes incurred by us that are allocable to the policies.

We are entitled to certain tax benefits related to the investment of company assets, including assets of the separate accounts. These tax benefits, which may include the foreign tax credit and the corporate dividends received deduction, are not passed back to you, since we are the owner of the assets from which tax benefits may be derived.

Tax withholding and information reporting

Status for income tax purposes; FATCA.  In order for us to comply with income tax withholding and information reporting rules which may apply to life insurance policies, we request documentation of “status” for tax purposes. “Status”

for tax purposes generally means whether a person is a “U.S. person” or a foreign person with respect to the United States; whether a person is an individual or an entity, and if an entity, the type of entity. Status for tax purposes is best documented on the appropriate IRS Form or substitute certification form (IRS Form W-9 for a U.S. person or the appropriate type of IRS Form W-8 for a foreign person). If we do not have appropriate certification or documentation of a person’s status for tax purposes on file, it could affect the rate at which we are required to withhold income tax, and penalties could apply. Information reporting rules could apply not only to specified transactions, but also to life insurance policy ownership. For example, under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”), which applies to certain U.S.-source payments, and similar or related withholding and information reporting rules, we may be required to report policy values and other information for certain policyholders. For this reason, we and our affiliates intend to require appropriate status documentation at purchase, change of ownership, and affected payment transactions, including death benefit payments. FATCA and its related guidance is extraordinarily complex and its effect varies considerably by type of payor, type of payee and type of recipient.

Tax Withholding.  Generally, unless you provide us with a satisfactory written election to the contrary prior to the distribution, we are required to withhold income tax from any proceeds we distribute as part of a taxable transaction under your policy. If you do not wish us to withhold tax from the payment, or if we do not withhold enough, you may have to pay later, and you may incur penalties under the estimated income tax rules. In some cases, where generation skipping taxes may apply, we may also be required to withhold for such taxes unless we are provided satisfactory notification that no such taxes are due. States may also require us to withhold tax on distributions to you and may not always follow federal rules.

Special withholding rules apply to United States citizens residing outside of the United States, foreign recipients, and certain U.S. entity recipients which are treated as foreign because they fail to document their U.S. status before payment is made. We do not discuss these rules here in detail. However, we may require additional documentation in the case of payments made to United States persons living abroad and non-United States persons (including U.S. entities treated as foreign) prior to processing any requested transaction. For Puerto Rico and other jurisdictions, income is considered U.S.-source income. We anticipate requiring owners or beneficiaries in Puerto Rico which are not individuals to document their status to avoid 30% FATCA withholding from U.S.-source income.

Possibility of future tax changes and other tax information

The U.S. Congress frequently considers legislation that, if enacted, could change the tax treatment of life insurance policies or increase the taxes we pay in connection with such

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policies. This could include special rules for tax-exempt entities as well as for corporate or business use of policies. Congress may consider proposals to comprehensively reform or overhaul the United States tax and retirement systems, which if enacted, could affect the tax benefits of a life insurance policy. Legislative proposals could make sweeping changes to many longstanding tax rules including certain tax benefits currently available to newly purchased cash value life insurance policies. Proposals have been considered to eliminate some or all taxable expenditures or tax preferences together with some lowering of tax rates. We cannot predict what if any, legislation will actually be proposed or enacted or what type of grandfathering will be allowed for existing life insurance policies. In addition, the Treasury Department may amend existing regulations, issue regulations on the qualification of life insurance and modified endowment contracts, or adopt new or clarifying interpretations of existing law. Some areas of possible future guidance include new rules for testing for policies issued on a special risk class basis. As a result, there are areas of some uncertainty even under current laws, such that future tax consequences of a policy could be other than as described herein.

State and local tax law or, if you are not a U.S. citizen and resident, foreign tax law, may also affect the tax consequences to you, the insured person or your beneficiary, and are subject to change or change in interpretation. Any changes in federal, state, local or foreign tax law or interpretations could have a retroactive effect both on our taxes and on the way your policy is taxed or the tax benefit of life insurance policies. As explained under “Cost of insurance charge,” the policy charges and tax qualification are based upon 2017 Commissioner’s Standard Ordinary (CSO) tables. New tables may apply to new policies in future years. Certain safe harbors may be available under federal tax rules to permit certain policy changes without losing the ability to use 2017 CSO based tables for testing. If we determine that certain future changes to your policy would cause it to lose its ability to be tax tested under the 2017 CSO mortality tables, we intend to refuse such transactions which might have otherwise been available under your policy, subject to our rules then in effect. We would take such action to help assure that your policy can continue to qualify as life insurance for federal tax testing under the 2017 CSO based tables.

Other information

There are a number of tax benefits associated with variable life insurance policies. For tax benefits to be available, the policyowner must have an insurable interest in the life of the insured under applicable state laws. Requirements may vary by state. A failure can, among other consequences, cause the policyowner to lose anticipated favorable federal tax treatment generally afforded life insurance.

For tax benefits to continue, the policy must continue to qualify as life insurance. We reserve the right to restrict transactions that we determine would cause your policy to fail to qualify as life insurance under federal tax law. We also

reserve the right to decline to make any change that may cause your policy to lose its ability to be tested for federal income tax purposes under the 2017 Commissioners Standard Ordinary Mortality Tables.

In addition to other requirements, federal tax law requires that the insurer, and not the policyowner, have control of the underlying investment assets for the policy to qualify as life insurance.

You may make transfers among Portfolios of Equitable America Variable Account K, but you may not direct the investments each Portfolio makes. If the IRS were to conclude that you, as the investor, have control over these investments, then the policy would no longer qualify as life insurance. You would be treated as the owner of separate account assets and be currently taxed on any income or gain the assets generate.

The IRS has provided some guidance on investor control, but many issues remain unclear. One such issue is whether a policyowner can have too much investor control if the variable life policy offers a large number of investment options in which to invest policy account values and/or the ability to make frequent transfers available under the policy. We do not know if the IRS will provide any further guidance on the issue. If guidance is provided, we do not know if it would apply retroactively to policies already in force.

We believe that our variable life policies do not give policyowners investment control over the investments underlying the various investment options; however, the IRS could disagree with our position. The IRS could seek to treat policyowners with a large number of investment options and/or the ability to freely transfer among investment options as the owners of the underlying Portfolio’s shares. Accordingly, we reserve the right to modify your policy as necessary to attempt to prevent you from being considered the owner of your policy’s proportionate share of the assets of Equitable America Variable Account K.

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8. Other benefits available under the policy

In addition to the standard death benefit(s) associated with your Policy, other standard and/or optional benefits may also be available to you. The following table summarizes information about those benefits. Information about the fees associated with each benefit included in the table may be found in the “Fee Table.”

Name of Benefit	Purpose	Is Benefit Standard or Optional	Brief Description of Restrictions/Limitation
Charitable Legacy Rider	Provides an additional death benefit of 1% of the base policy face amount to the qualified charitable organization(s) chosen by the policy owner.	Optional	•   Only available at issue and an accredited charitable beneficiary must be named at that time. •   Available for base policy face amounts of $1 million and above, where the minimum benefit would be $10,000 and the maximum benefit would be $100,000 (i.e., for face amounts of $10 million and above). •   If the base policy face amount is reduced after issue for any reason, the benefit will be payable on the face amount at the time of the insured’s death, provided the face amount is at least $1 million. •   If the base policy face amount has been decreased below $1 million at the time of death, then no benefit is payable.
Living Benefits Rider	Enables you to receive a portion of the policy’s death benefit (with certain exclusions), if the insured person has a terminal illness.	Optional	•   May be elected either at policy issue or after policy issue. If elected after issue, we will deduct $100 from your policy account value at the time of the transaction. •   Subject to underwriting guidelines and state availability, your policy will automatically include this rider if you apply for a face amount of at least $100,000. •   The maximum aggregate amount of payments that will be paid under this rider for all policies issued by the Company or an affiliate company on the life of the same insured person is $500,000.
No-Lapse Guarantee Rider	Generally guarantees that your policy will not terminate for a number of years.	Standard	•   Subject to the payment of certain specified amounts of premiums. •   Rider will not prevent the policy from entering a grace period if the amount of your outstanding policy loans and accrued loan interest is greater than your policy account value. •   Subject to certain conditions, provides a guarantee against policy lapse for 15 years.

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Name of Benefit	Purpose	Is Benefit Standard or Optional	Brief Description of Restrictions/Limitation
Policy Continuation Rider	Protects against the lapse of your policy in certain circumstances.	Optional	•   You can exercise the rider and be placed on “policy continuation,” if at the beginning of any policy month on or following the policy anniversary nearest the insured person’s 75th birthday, but not earlier than the 15th policy anniversary, all of the following conditions apply: •   The amount of any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest equals or exceed the policy account value multiplied by the Policy Continuation Trigger Percentage as provided in your policy; •   There must be sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge; •   The policy must not be a Modified Endowment Contract as defined in section 7702A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exercising the rider must not cause the policy to become a Modified Endowment Contract. •   The amount of any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest is greater than the current base policy face amount; •   The policy is not in a grace period; and •   No current or future distributions will be required to be paid from the policy to maintain its qualification as “life insurance” under the Internal Revenue Code.

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Other benefits you can add by rider

When you purchase this policy, you could be eligible for the following other optional benefits we currently make available by rider.

The Company or your financial professional can provide you with more information about these riders. Some of these benefits may be selected only at the time your policy is issued. Some benefits are not available in combination with others or may not be available in your state. The riders provide additional terms, conditions and limitations, and we will furnish samples of them to you on request. We can add, delete, or modify the riders we are making available, at any time before they become effective as part of your policy.

See also “Tax information” in this prospectus for certain possible tax consequences and limitations of deleting riders or changing the death benefits under a rider.

Charitable Legacy Rider

An optional rider may be elected at issue that provides an additional death benefit of 1% of the base policy face amount to the qualified charitable organization(s) chosen by the policy owner at no additional cost. This rider is only available at issue and an accredited charitable beneficiary must be named at that time. The rider is available for base policy face amounts of $1 million and above, where the minimum benefit would be $10,000 and the maximum benefit would be $100,000 (i.e. for face amounts of $10 million and above).

If the base policy face amount is reduced after issue for any reason, the benefit will be payable on the face amount at the time of the insured’s death, provided the face amount is at least $1 million. If the face amount has been decreased below $1 million at the time of death, then no benefit is payable.

The designated beneficiary of this rider must be an organization exempt from federal taxation under Section 501(c) of the Code and listed in Section 170(c) of the Code as an authorized recipient of charitable contributions. See www.IRS.gov for valid organizations.

Example: Initial policy face amount of $1,000,000 with a charity named at policy issue. If face amount remains at $1,000,000, then upon death, $10,000 (.01 x $1,000,000) will be payable to a designated qualified charity.

• Rider termination.  The charitable legacy rider will terminate and no further benefits will be paid on the earliest of the following:

— the termination of the policy;

— the surrender of the policy;

— the date we receive the policy owner’s written request to terminate the rider; or

— the date of the insured’s death.

If the base policy lapses and is subsequently restored, the rider will be reinstated.

Living Benefits Rider

Your option to receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider

Subject to our insurance underwriting guidelines and availability in your state, your policy will automatically include our Living Benefits Rider if you apply for a face amount of at least $100,000. This feature enables you to receive a portion (generally the lesser of 75% or $250,000) of the policy’s death benefit (excluding death benefits payable under certain other policy riders), if the insured person has a terminal illness (as defined in the rider). The maximum aggregate amount of payments that will be paid under this Living Benefits Rider for all policies issued by the Company or an affiliate company on the life of the same insured person is $500,000. We make no additional charge for the rider, but we will deduct a one-time administrative charge of up to $250 from any living benefit we pay.

If you tell us that you do not wish to have the Living Benefits Rider added at issue, but you later ask to add it, there will be a $100 administrative charge. Also, we will need to evaluate the insurance risk at that time, and we may decline to issue the rider.

We will deduct the amount of any living benefit we have paid, plus interest (as specified in the rider), from the death benefit proceeds that become payable under the policy if and when the insured person dies. (In your policy we refer to this as a “lien” we establish against your policy.)

When we pay a living benefit, we automatically transfer a pro rata portion of your policy’s net cash surrender value to the policy’s guaranteed interest option regardless of any policy guaranteed interest option limitation in effect. This amount, together with the interest we charge thereon, will be “restricted”— that is, it will not be available for any loans, transfers or partial withdrawals that you may wish to make. In addition, it may not be used to satisfy the charges we deduct from your policy’s value. We also will deduct these restricted amounts from any subsequent surrender proceeds that we pay.

The receipt of a living benefits payment may qualify for exclusion from income tax. See “Tax information” below. Receipt of a living benefits payment may affect your eligibility for certain government benefits or entitlements.

You can arrange to receive a “living benefit” if the insured person becomes terminally ill.

Example: Policy owner is age 55 and has been diagnosed with cancer. He is not expected to live longer than 12 months and submits a claim for Living Benefits under a policy with a $200,000 face amount. The cash surrender value of the policy is currently $50,000. He has a policy loan (including accrued interest) of $25,000 outstanding on the policy, so his net death benefit is $175,000 ($200,000 - $25,000) and his net cash surrender value is $25,000 ($50,000 - $25,000).

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The maximum Living Benefits payment available is the lesser of $250,000 and 75% of his $175,000 net death benefit ($131,250). Policy owner requests half of this amount, or $65,625, on his claim and receives a lump sum payment of $65,375 (after a claim processing fee of $250 is assessed). Policy owner dies 10 months after filing his claim for Living Benefits. His wife as the beneficiary on his policy receives $128,372. This death claim payment and other policy values are calculated as follows:

Before Payment of Living Benefits:
Policy Loan Outstanding	$	25,000
Net Death Benefit	$	175,000
Net Cash Surrender Value	$	25,000
Living Benefits Payment Requested	$	65,625
Net Amount Minus $250 Processing Fee	$	65,375

Immediately After Payment of Living Benefits
Net Death Benefit	$	175,000
Lien Outstanding	$	65,625
Death Benefit Net of the Policy Loan and Lien	$	109,375
Net Cash Surrender Value	$	25,000
Initial Lien against Cash Value [65,625 x (25,000/175,000)]1	$	9,375
Cash Surrender Value Net of Policy Loan and Lien	$	15,625

1 The lien resulting from the Living Benefit payment is equal to the amount of Living Benefit plus accrued interest plus additional amounts, if any, that are advanced to keep the policy in force. The amount of cash value net of existing policy loans, in excess of a specified percentage (which will not be greater than 100%) of the lien, is available for additional policy loans or partial withdrawals. The specified percentage is equal to the net cash value divided by the net death benefit. The net cash value is the cash value minus any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest. The net death benefit is the death benefit minus any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest.

Ten Months Later:
Lien	$	65,625
Interest on Lien2	$	2,852
Lien Plus Interest	$	68,477
Policy Loan	$	25,000
Interest on Policy Loan2	$	1,037
Policy Loan Plus Interest	$	26,037
Death Benefit Net of Policy Loan and Lien [200,000 – $68,477 – $26,037]	$	105,486

2. Assumes a hypothetical 8% annual rate for the outstanding policy loan and the Lien. For policies with cash values, the actual interest rate for the Lien at the time the Living Benefits payment is made will not exceed the greater of: (i) the 90-Day Treasury Bill or (ii) the higher of (a) the maximum adjustable policy loan interest rate based on the “Published Monthly Average,” as defined below, for the calendar month that ends two months before the date of application for the Living Benefits payment or (b) the policy guaranteed cash value interest rate plus 1% per year.* The interest rate accrued on the portion of the Lien that is allocated to the policy cash value will not be more than the policy loan interest rate.

* For policies without cash values, the actual interest rate for the Lien at the time the Living Benefits payment is made will not exceed the greater of: (i) the 90-Day Treasury Bill or (ii) the “Published Monthly Average,” as defined below, for the calendar month that ends two months before the date of application for the Living Benefits payment.

The “Published Monthly Average” means the Moody’s Corporate Bond Yield Average – Monthly Average Corporates published by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or any successor thereto. If such averages are no longer published, we will use such other averages as may be established by regulation by the insurance supervisory official of the jurisdiction in which this policy is delivered.

No-Lapse Guarantee Rider

You can generally guarantee that your policy will not terminate for a number of years by paying at least certain specified amounts of premiums, and as long as any outstanding policy loans and accrued loan interest do not exceed your policy account value. We call these amounts “guarantee premiums” and they will be set forth in the “Policy Information” section of your policy. This guarantee against termination is our No-Lapse Guarantee rider. Under the No-Lapse Guarantee rider, subject to the conditions below your policy is guaranteed not to lapse during a no-lapse guarantee period of 15 years.

Your policy will not terminate, even if your net policy account value is not sufficient to pay your monthly charges, as long as:

• You have satisfied the “guarantee premium test” (discussed in “guarantee premium test for the no-lapse guarantee” under “More information about policy benefits” in this prospectus); and

• Any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest does not exceed the policy account value.

There is no extra charge for this rider.

Example: A representative insured age 60 (issue age of 50) has a policy that will lapse next month because the monthly charges exceed the net policy account value. The cumulative amount of premiums paid to date (less any partial withdrawals) exceeds the cumulative guarantee premiums due to date for the no-lapse guarantee. As a result, the rider is still in force and the policy did not lapse even when the net policy account value fell to zero.

Guarantee premium test.  If your net policy account value is not sufficient to pay a monthly deduction that has become due, we check to see if the cumulative amount of premiums that you have paid to date (less any partial withdrawals) at least equals the cumulative guarantee premiums due to date for the no-lapse guarantee including any cumulative guarantee premiums for any optional riders that are then in effect. If it does, your policy will not lapse, provided that any policy loan and accrued loan interest does not exceed the policy account value, and provided that the guarantee is still in effect.

Guarantee premiums.  The amount of the guarantee premiums for the no-lapse guarantee are set forth in your

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policy on a monthly basis. The guarantee premiums are actuarially determined at policy issuance and depend on the age and other insurance risk characteristics of the insured person, as well as the amount of the coverage and additional features you select. The guarantee premiums may change if, for example, the face amount of the policy changes, or a rider is eliminated, or if there is a change in the insured person’s risk characteristics. We will send you a new policy page showing any change in your guarantee premiums. Any change will be prospective only, and no change will extend the no-lapse guarantee period beyond its original number of years.

Policy Continuation Rider

This rider is automatically included in your policy and provides protection against future policy lapse when the net policy account value (policy account value less any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest) are insufficient to cover the monthly deductions of the policy due to loan indebtedness. If the net policy account value at that time is not sufficient to cover the Policy Continuation Charge, you will be given 30 days to remit sufficient funds to cover any deficiency for this charge. If these funds are not received within that time, Policy Continuation will not take effect. It cannot be exercised during a grace period, but should be exercised before there is insufficient net policy account value to pay monthly charges. If you exercise the Policy Continuation Rider, the policy will then become “paid-up” life insurance.

There is no charge for the Policy Continuation Rider unless and until it is exercised. If it is exercised, there is a one-time charge. The charge for the rider is described in more detail in “Fee Table“ under “Important information you should consider about the policy” in this prospectus and “Policy Continuation charge” in “More information about policy charges” in this prospectus.

Exercising the Policy Continuation Rider.  In order to exercise the Policy Continuation Rider, ALL of the following conditions must be met under your policy:

(1) the amount of any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest equals or exceeds the policy account value multiplied by the Policy Continuation Trigger Percentage as provided in your policy.

(2) your policy has been in force for at least 15 policy years;

(3) the insured person’s attained age is at least 75;

(4) the outstanding loan amount and accrued loan interest exceeds the current base policy face amount;

(5) the policy is not then in a grace period;

(6) no current or future distribution from the policy will be required to maintain its qualification as life insurance under the Internal Revenue Code;

(7) there must be sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge described in “Fee Table” under “Important information you should consider about the policy”; and

(8) the policy must not be a Modified Endowment Contract as defined in section 7702A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exercising this rider must not cause the policy to become a Modified Endowment Contract.

Notification and exercise of the Policy Continuation Rider.  We will notify you within 15 days after the beginning of the policy month when all of the conditions listed above occur that you may exercise the Policy Continuation Rider. If you wish to exercise the Policy Continuation Rider, you must respond in writing to our Administrative Office within 45 days after the date of the notice.

If there is any amount remaining in the unloaned policy account in excess of the Policy Continuation Charge, we will treat your instruction to exercise this rider as a request for an additional loan equal to this excess amount. Such amount will then be distributed to you on the effective date of Policy Continuation. Once you exercise the Policy Continuation Rider, Policy Continuation will remain in effect during the lifetime of the insured person unless the policy is surrendered.

If you do not respond to our notice telling you that you are eligible to exercise the Policy Continuation Rider, your policy and the rider will continue according to their terms. You may still exercise this Policy Continuation Rider at some future time if the appropriate conditions are met. Please note, however, that we will not send you another notice of eligibility to exercise this rider and the policy may lapse.

Effective date of Policy Continuation.  After you have satisfied the requirements for the Policy Continuation Rider, policy continuation will take effect at the beginning of the policy month that coincides with, or next follows, the date we receive your instruction to exercise the Policy Continuation Rider.

Policy Continuation charge.  There is no charge for this rider unless and until it is exercised. If this rider is exercised, there is a one-time charge. This charge is equal to the policy account value on the date this rider is exercised multiplied by the Policy Continuation Charge Rate shown in your policy. This rate is based on the age of the insured person on the date this rider is exercised.

Effect of Policy Continuation.  If Policy Continuation takes effect subject to the Policy Continuation Rider, all other additional benefit riders and endorsements will terminate when Policy Continuation takes effect. If the is any amount remaining in the net policy account value after the Policy Continuation Rider charge has been deducted, such amounts are treated as an additional loan and refunded to you so there will be no amounts in the variable investment options or the MSO. From that point forward, ALL of the following will apply:

(1) the policy will not lapse and no further premiums will be required;

(2) loan interest will continue to be due on each policy anniversary. If the interest is not paid when due, it will be added to your outstanding loan;

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(3) any payments we receive from you while the policy is on Policy Continuation will be applied as loan repayments and will be allocated to the unloaned portion of the guaranteed interest option to the extent of any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. Any excess will be refunded to you; and

(4) on each policy anniversary and any time you repay all of a policy loan, interest credited to the loaned portion of the guaranteed interest option will be allocated to the unloaned portion of the guaranteed interest option.

When Policy Continuation is in effect subject to the Policy Continuation Rider, ALL of the following are prohibited:

(1) partial withdrawals;

(2) premium payments;

(3) changes to the policy face amount;

(4) transfers out of, or allocations out of, the unloaned guaranteed interest option to the variable investment options or the MSO even if the loan is fully repaid; and

(5) any other requested policy changes.

When Policy Continuation is in effect, the death benefit of this policy is the greatest of: (a) the policy account value or the outstanding loan and accrued loan interest on the insured person’s date of death, whichever is greater, multiplied by a percentage shown in your policy for the insured person’s age (nearest birthday) at the beginning of each policy year, (b) the outstanding loan and accrued loan interest on the insured person’s date of death plus $10,000, or (c) the current base policy face amount.

We will deduct the amount of any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest from the death benefit we will pay. If you have a full surrender when Policy Continuation is in effect you will be paid the net cash surrender value.

For further information, please see Appendix “Examples of how the Policy Continuation Rider works” to your prospectus.

Policy Continuation Rider termination.  This rider will terminate when the policy terminates.

Policy Continuation Rider restoration.  If your policy ends without value at the end of a grace period, the Policy Continuation Rider will be restored along with the policy.

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9. More information about policy charges

How we allocate charges among your investment options

In your application for a policy, you tell us from which investment options you want us to take the policy’s monthly deductions as they fall due. You can change these instructions at any time. If we cannot deduct the charge as your most current instructions direct, we will allocate the deduction among your investment options proportionately to your value in each.

Substantially different procedures apply, however, if you allocate any of your policy account value to a Segment under the MSO investment option. In that case, for example, you will be required to maintain a certain amount of policy account value (the Charge Reserve Amount) in the policy’s unloaned guaranteed interest option. (You will not be subject to any Charge Reserve Amount requirement, however, at any time when none of your policy account value is invested in any MSO Segment.) The Charge Reserve Amount at the beginning of any Segment is the estimated amount required to pay all monthly deductions under your policy (including, but not limited to, charges for the MSO and any optional riders) for the remainder of the Segment Term.

While any of your policy account value is invested in any Segment, we will take all of your policy’s monthly deductions (including, but not limited to, the monthly deductions under the MSO and optional riders) solely from the unloaned guaranteed interest option, rather than from the investment options from which those charges otherwise would be deducted. If you have insufficient policy account value in the unloaned guaranteed interest option to pay a monthly deduction during any Segment Term, we will first take the balance of the deduction proportionately from any variable investment options (other than any Segments) that you are then using. But, if insufficient policy account value remains in any such other investment options to cover the full balance of the monthly deduction, we will take the remainder of the monthly deduction from any MSO Segments in which you have account value invested. We will apply these procedures for allocating deductions for policy charges automatically at any time you have any amounts invested in a Segment, and no contrary instructions from you would apply during the Segment Term.

If we have to make any distribution from an MSO Segment, including (among other things) to pay any surrender or loan proceeds or any charge deduction from a Segment, there will generally be negative consequences for you. Among other things, an Early Distribution Adjustment would apply, which would usually reduce your policy values, in many cases substantially. In some cases, such an Early Distribution Adjustment may apply without any action on your part. This

could happen, for example, if the Charge Reserve Amount and funds you have invested in options other than the MSO are insufficient to pay a monthly deduction (i) due to poor investment performance of those options or (ii) due to any permitted increases in charges that we have made above their current rates.

Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for detailed information about the above procedures.

Changes in charges

We reserve the right in the future to (1) make a charge for certain taxes or reserves set aside for taxes (see “Our taxes” under “Tax information” in this prospectus) that might be imposed on us; (2) make a charge for the operating expenses of our variable investment options (including, without limitation, SEC registration fees and related legal counsel fees and auditing fees); or (3) change our other current policy charges (in no event will they exceed the maximum charges guaranteed in your policy).

Any changes that we make in our current charges or charge rates will be on a basis that is equitable to all policies belonging to a given class, and will be determined based on reasonable assumptions as to expenses, mortality, investment income, lapses and policy and contract claims associated with morbidity. These assumptions include taxes, longevity, surrenders, persistency, conversions, disability, accident, illness, inability to perform activities of daily living, and cognitive impairment, if applicable. Any changes in charges may apply to then in force policies, as well as to new policies. You will be notified in writing of any changes in charges under your policy.

Deducting policy charges

Purposes of policy charges.  The charges under the policies are designed to cover, in the aggregate, our direct and indirect costs of selling, administering and providing benefits under the policies. They are also designed, in the aggregate, to compensate us for the risks of loss we assume pursuant to the policies. If, as we expect, the charges that we collect from the policies exceed our total costs in connection with the policies, we will earn a profit. Otherwise, we will incur a loss. In addition to the charges described below, there are also charges at the Portfolio level, which are described in the prospectuses of the Portfolios in which the funds invest. For additional information on all policy charges, see “More information about policy charges.”

Transaction charges

On the first day of each policy month, charges for cost of insurance and certain other charges are deducted from your policy account value as specified below (see “Periodic charges” below). In addition, charges may be deducted for

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transactions such as premium payments, policy surrenders, requested decreases in face amount, or transfers among investment options.

• Premium charge.  We deduct an amount not to exceed 5% from each premium payment you send us. Currently, in the first policy year, we charge 5% from each premium payment you send us up to the sales load target premium. In the first policy year, we reduce this charge to 4% after an amount equal to the sales load target premium has been paid. Beginning in the second policy year, we deduct 4% from each premium payment you send us. The “target premium” is actuarially determined for each policy, based on that policy’s specified characteristics, as well as the policy’s face amount, among other factors. The premium charge is designed in part to defray sales and tax expenses we incur that are based on premium payments.

• Surrender charges.  If you give up this policy for its net cash surrender value before the end of the tenth policy year, we will subtract a surrender charge from your policy account value.

The surrender charge at any time will be the lesser of a premium based surrender charge and the maximum surrender charge contained in the policy.

Table of Premium Based Surrender Charges
Policy Year of Premium Payment	Policy Year of Surrender
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11+
1	6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
2		6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
3			6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%
4				6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%	0%
5					6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%
6						6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%
7							6%	5%	4%	3%	0%
8+								0%	0%	0%	0%

The premium based surrender charge is calculated as a varying percentage of premium payments made within the first 7 policy years. We will determine an incremental premium based surrender charge separately for each such premium payment (adjusted proportionately for subsequent face amount reductions, if any) by multiplying each premium payment by the applicable surrender charge percentage in accordance with the table above, based upon the number of policy years since the premium was paid. The total surrender charge is the sum of the incremental premium based surrender charges calculated for each premium. However, the total surrender charge will not be greater than the maximum surrender charge.

The maximum surrender charge contained in your policy is shown for the first policy month of each policy year. The maximum surrender charge will be between $20.63 and $55.87 per $1,000 of initial base policy face amount, and depends on each policy’s specific characteristics.

The surrender charges are contingent deferred sales charges. They are contingent because you only pay them if

you surrender your policy for its net cash surrender value (or request a reduction in its face amount, as described below). They are deferred because we do not deduct them from your premiums. Because the surrender charges are contingent and deferred, the amount we collect in a policy year is not related to actual expenses for that year.

The surrender charges assessed in connection with giving up this policy or with reductions in policy face amount are intended, in part, to compensate us for the fact that it takes us time to make a profit on your policy, and if you give up or reduce the face amount of your policy in its early years, we do not have the time to recoup our costs.

• Request a decrease in your policy’s face amount.  If there is a requested base policy face amount reduction within the first ten policy years, a proportionate surrender charge will be deducted from your policy account value. See “Surrender charges” above for information about the calculation of the surrender charge.

Assuming you have not previously changed the base policy face amount, a proportionate surrender charge will be determined by dividing the amount of the reduction in base policy face amount by the initial base policy face amount of insurance, and then multiplying that fraction by the surrender charge that is in effect immediately before the reduction. The proportionate surrender charge will not exceed the unloaned amount in the Policy Account at the time of the reduction. If a proportionate surrender charge is made, the maximum surrender charges and the premium based surrender charges corresponding to previous premium payments will be reduced proportionately. We will not deduct a proportionate surrender charge if the reduction resulted from a change from a partial withdrawal.

Surrender charges are deducted as instructed by the policy owner. If we cannot deduct the charge per the most current instruction, we will allocate the deduction among the investment options proportionately to the value in each.

• Transfers among investment options.  Although we do not currently charge for transfers among investment options, we reserve the right to make a transfer charge up to $25 for each transfer of amounts among your investment options. The transfer charge, if any, is deducted from the amounts transferred from your policy’s value in the variable investment options and in our guaranteed interest option based on the proportion that the amount transferred from each variable investment option and from our guaranteed interest option bears to the total amount being transferred. Any such charge would be, in part, to compensate us for our expenses in administering transfers. The charge will never apply to a transfer of all of your variable investment option amounts to our guaranteed interest option, or transfers to or from the MSO to any transfer pursuant to our automated transfer service or asset rebalancing service.

Special services charges

We deduct a charge for providing the special services described below. These charges compensate us for the expense of processing each special service. Please note that we may discontinue some or all of these services without notice.

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• Wire transfer charge.  We charge $90 for outgoing wire transfers. Unless you specify otherwise, this charge will be deducted from the amount you request.

• Express mail charge.  We charge $35 for sending you a check by express mail delivery. This charge will be deducted from the amount you request.

• Policy illustration charge.  We do not charge for illustrations. We reserve the right to charge up to $25 in the future. The charge for this service must be paid by using funds outside of your policy.

• Duplicate policy charge.  We charge $35 for providing a copy of your policy. The charge for this service can be paid (i) using a credit card acceptable to the Company, (ii) by sending a check to our Administrative Office, or (iii) by any other means we make available to you.

• Policy history charge.  We charge a maximum of $50 for providing you a history of policy transactions. If you request a policy history of less than 5 years from the date of your request, there is no charge. If you request a policy history of more than 5 years but less than 10 years from the date of your request, the current charge is $25. For policy histories of 10 years or more, the charge is $50. For all policy histories, we reserve the right to charge a maximum of $50. The charge for this service can be paid (i) using a credit card acceptable to the Company, (ii) by sending a check to our Administrative Office, or (iii) by any other means we make available to you.

• Charge for returned payments.  For each payment you make in connection with your policy that is returned for insufficient funds, we charge $25. The charge for this service can be paid (i) using a credit card acceptable to the Company, (ii) by sending a check to our Administrative Office, or (iii) by any other means we make available to you.

Periodic charges

On the first day of each month of the policy, charges for cost of insurance and certain other charges are deducted from your policy account value as specified below.

• Administrative charge.  In the first policy year, we deduct $15 from your policy account value at the beginning of each policy month. Currently, in all subsequent policy years we deduct $10 at the beginning of each policy month, but not beyond the policy anniversary when the insured person is attained age 100. We reserve the right to increase or decrease this amount in the future, although it will never exceed $10 and will never be deducted beyond the policy anniversary when the insured person is attained age 121. In addition we currently deduct between $0.33 and $1.60 per $1,000 of your initial base policy face amount at the beginning of each policy month in the first ten policy years. We reserve the right to continue this charge beyond the ten year period previously described, but it will never be deducted beyond the policy anniversary when the insured person is attained age 121. The administrative charge is intended, in part, to compensate us for the costs involved in administering the policy.

We offer lower rates for non-tobacco users. You may generally ask us to review the tobacco habits of an insured person to change the charge from tobacco user rates to non-tobacco user rates. The change, if approved, may result in lower future administrative charges beginning on the effective date of the change to non-tobacco user rates.

Similarly, after the first policy year, you may request us to review the insured person’s rating to see if they qualify for a reduction in future administrative charges. Any such change will be based upon our general underwriting rules in effect at the time of application, and may include various criteria.

• Cost of insurance charge.  The cost of insurance rates vary depending on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the individual characteristics of the insured, the face amount and the policy year. The monthly cost of insurance charge is determined by multiplying the cost of insurance rate that is then applicable to your policy by the amount we have at risk under your policy divided by $1,000. Our amount at risk (also described in your policy as “net amount at risk”) on any date is the difference between (a) the death benefit that would be payable if the insured person died on that date and (b) the then total account value under the policy. A greater amount at risk, or a higher cost of insurance rate, will result in a higher monthly charge. The cost of insurance rates are intended, in part, to compensate us for the cost of providing insurance to you under your policy.

Generally, the cost of insurance rate increases from one policy year to the next. This happens automatically because of the insured person’s increasing age.

On a guaranteed basis, we may deduct between $0.01 and $83.34 per $1,000 of the amount for which we are at risk under your policy from your policy account value each month (but not beyond the policy anniversary date when the insured person is attained age 121). As the amount for which we are at risk at any time is the death benefit (calculated as of that time) minus your policy account value at that time, changes in your policy account value resulting from the performance of your investment options can affect your amount at risk, and as a result, your cost of insurance. In addition, our current non-guaranteed cost of insurance rates are zero for policy years in which the insured person’s attained age is 100 or older. Our cost of insurance rates are guaranteed not to exceed the maximum rates specified in your policy. For most insured persons at most ages, our current (non-guaranteed) rates are lower than the maximum rates. Subject to any necessary regulatory approvals, we have the ability to raise these rates up to the guaranteed maximum at any time.

The guaranteed maximum cost of insurance rates for gender neutral policies for insureds are based on the 2017 Commissioner’s Standard Ordinary 80% Male, 20% Female, Composite Ultimate Age Nearest Birthday Mortality Table. For all other policies, the guaranteed maximum cost of insurance rates are based on the 2017 Commissioner’s Standard Ordinary Male or Female, Composite Ultimate Age Nearest Birthday Mortality Tables.

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Our cost of insurance rates will generally be lower (except for gender-neutral policies and in connection with certain employee benefit plans) if the insured person is a female than if a male. They also will generally be lower for non-tobacco users than tobacco users and lower for persons that have other highly favorable health characteristics, as compared to those that do not. On the other hand, insured persons who present particular health, occupational or avocational risks may be charged higher cost of insurance rates and other additional charges as specified in their policies. In addition, the current (non-guaranteed) rates also vary depending on the duration of the policy (i.e., the length of time since the policy was issued).

For information concerning possible limitations on any changes, please see “Other information” in “Tax information” in this prospectus.

We offer lower rates for non-tobacco users only. You may generally ask us to review the tobacco habits of an insured person to change the charge from tobacco user rates to non-tobacco user rates. The change, if approved, may result in lower future cost of insurance rates beginning on the effective date of the change to non-tobacco user rates.

The change will be based upon our general underwriting rules in effect at the time of application, and may include criteria other than tobacco use status as well as a definition of tobacco use different from that applicable at the time this policy was issued.

Similarly, after the first policy year, you may request us to review the insured person’s rating to see if they qualify for a reduction in future cost of insurance rates. Any such change will be based upon our general underwriting rules in effect at the time of application, and may include various criteria.

The change in rates, if approved, will take effect at the beginning of the policy month that coincides with or next follows the date we approve your request. This change may have adverse tax consequences.

• Mortality and expense risk charge.  We will collect a monthly charge for mortality and expense risk. We are committed to fulfilling our obligations under the policy and providing service to you over the lifetime of your policy. Despite the uncertainty of future events, we guarantee that monthly administrative and cost of insurance deductions from your policy account value will never be greater than the maximum amounts shown in your “Fee Table” under “Important information you should consider about the policy” in this prospectus. In making this guarantee, we assume the mortality risk that insured persons (as a group) will live for shorter periods than we estimated. When this happens, we have to pay a greater amount of death benefit than we expected to pay in relation to the cost of insurance charges we received. We also assume the expense risks that the cost of issuing and administering policies will be greater than we expected. This charge is designed, in part, to compensate us for taking these risks.

We will deduct a monthly mortality and expense risk charge which will be calculated as a percentage of the value in your policy’s variable investment options and the Market Stabilizer

Option^®, if applicable. Currently, this charge is 0.40% during policy years 1-8 and 0.05% during policy years 9 and later. We reserve the right to increase or decrease this charge in the future, although it will never exceed 1.00% during policy years 1-10 and 0.50% during policy years 11 and later. This charge will be calculated at the beginning of each policy month as a percentage of the amount of policy account that is then allocated to the variable investment options.

• Loan interest spread.  We charge interest on policy loans but credit you with interest on the amount of the policy account value we hold as collateral for the loan. The loan interest spread is the excess of the interest rate we charge over the interest rate we credit. The loan interest spread is currently 1.0% for policy years 1-10 and 0% for policy year 11 and later.

The loan interest spread will not exceed 1% except for amounts allocated to MSO segment where the loan interest spread will not exceed 5%. We deduct this charge on each policy anniversary date, or on loan termination, if earlier. For more information on how this charge is deducted, see “Borrowing from your policy” under “Death benefits and accessing your money” in this prospectus. As with any loan, the interest we charge on the loans is intended, in part, to compensate us for the time value of the money we are lending and the risk that you will not repay the loan.

MSO Charges

There is currently a 0.40% (effective annual rate) charge on any policy account value allocated to each Segment (this charge is called the “Variable Index Segment Account Charge”). The Variable Index Segment Account Charge is guaranteed to never exceed 1.65% (effective annual rate). This charge (of the current Segment Account Value) is deducted from the policy account on a monthly basis during the Segment Term.

An Early Distribution Adjustment will be applied on surrender or other distribution (including loan) from an MSO Segment prior to its Segment Maturity Date. The maximum Early Distribution Adjustment is 90% of Segment Account Value.

Please refer to the MSO prospectus for more information about the MSO and related charges.

Optional rider charges

If you elect the following riders, the charge for each rider is deducted from your policy account value on the first day of each policy month that the rider is in effect. The rider charges are designed to offset the cost of providing the benefit under the rider. The costs of each of the riders below are designed, in part, to compensate us for the additional insurance risk we take on in providing each of these riders and the administrative costs involved in administering them.

• Policy Continuation Rider. There is no charge for this rider unless and until it is exercised. If this rider is exercised, there is a one-time charge. This charge is equal to the policy account value on the date this rider is exercised multiplied by the Policy Continuation Charge Rate shown in your policy. This rate is based on the age of the insured person on the date this rider is exercised. The maximum rate for a policy is 13.10%.

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• Charitable Legacy Rider.  There is no additional charge if you choose this rider.

• Adding the Living Benefits Rider.  If you elect the Living Benefits Rider after the policy is issued, we will deduct $100 from your policy account value at the time of the transaction. This fee is designed, in part, to compensate us for the administrative costs involved in processing the request.

• Exercise of option to receive a terminal illness “living benefit.”  If you elect to receive a terminal illness “living benefit,” we will deduct up to $250 from any living benefit we pay. This fee is designed, in part, to compensate us for the administrative costs involved in processing the request.

• No-Lapse Guarantee Rider. There is no additional charge for this rider.

Charges that the Trusts deduct

The Trusts deduct charges for the following types of fees and expenses:

• Management fees.

• 12b-1 fees.

• Operating expenses, such as trustees’ fees, independent public accounting firms’ fees, legal counsel fees, administrative service fees, custodian fees and liability insurance.

• Investment-related expenses, such as brokerage commissions.

These charges are reflected in the daily share price of each portfolio. Since shares of each Trust are purchased at their net asset value, these fees and expenses are, in effect, passed on to the variable investment options and are reflected in their unit values before the Investment Expense Reduction is applied. Certain portfolios available under the contract in turn invest in shares of other portfolios of EQ Premier VIP Trust and EQ Advisors Trust and/or shares of unaffiliated portfolios (collectively, the “underlying portfolios”). The underlying portfolios each have their own fees and expenses, including management fees, operating expenses, and investment related expenses such as brokerage commissions. For more information about these charges, please refer to the prospectuses for the Trusts.

Investment Expense Reduction

We will apply an expense reduction in the calculation of the daily unit values of each variable investment option of our separate account (the “Investment Expense Reduction”). The Investment Expense Reduction for each variable investment option will be determined based upon the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses of each variable investment option’s corresponding Portfolio. The Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense is defined as the Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense after the application of any contractual expense limitation arrangements that are in place for more than one year.

The Investment Expense Reduction for each variable investment option will be initially determined and then annually updated, based upon the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense of each variable investment option’s corresponding Portfolio either (1) as shown in the annual Portfolio

prospectuses dated on or about May 1st of each calendar year, for existing Portfolios which are effective as of that date; or (2) as shown in the initial effective Portfolio prospectuses, for new portfolios that become effective after that date, as applicable. The Investment Expense Reduction will be calculated based upon which of the three ranges (less than 0.80%, 0.80% through 1.15%, or greater than 1.15%) in the table below that the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense falls into. The ranges and formula amounts shown in the table below will not change while your policy remains in effect.

During the year, the Investment Expense Reduction will be applied daily and will be equal to the daily equivalent of the annual Investment Expense Reduction percentage that is defined in the table below. You should be aware that actual portfolio operating expenses will generally fluctuate daily, so after the application of the Investment Expense Reduction, the resulting expenses you pay may increase or decrease from one day to the next. In addition, the Investment Expense Reduction for each variable investment option is not intended to exceed the portion of the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses of each variable investment option’s corresponding Portfolio applied as of the day each unit value is calculated.

For example, if the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense of a Portfolio is shown as 0.75% in the applicable Portfolio prospectus, then the annual Investment Expense Reduction would be calculated based upon the row of the table below that is labeled “Less than 0.80%,” and therefore the annual Investment Expense Reduction for the variable investment option investing in that Portfolio would be 0.35% (the greater of 0.15% and the excess of 0.75% over 0.40%). Furthermore, in this example, if the actual Net Total Portfolio Operating Expenses on any given day were below the daily equivalent of 0.35% annually, the Investment Expense Reduction for that day would not exceed the actual Net Total Portfolio Operating Expenses for that day.

If the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses (before the Investment Expense Reduction) are:	Then the annual Investment Expense Reduction(**) for that variable investment option will be:
Less than 0.80%	The amount equal to the greater of 0.15% and any excess of the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense over 0.40%. However, in no event will the annual Investment Expense Reduction exceed the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses.
0.80% through 1.15%	The amount equal to the greater of 0.15% and any excess of the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expense over 0.80%. However, in no event will the annual Investment Expense Reduction exceed the Net Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses.
Greater than 1.15%	0.15%

** Because the expenses contained in the Trust prospectus for each Portfolio reflect annual expenses, the actual expenses incurred may be higher or lower on any given day.

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10. More information about procedures that apply to your policy

This section provides further detail about certain subjects that are addressed in the previous pages. The following discussion generally does not repeat the information already contained in those pages.

Your right to cancel within a certain number of days

You may cancel your policy by returning the policy along with a properly signed and completed written request for cancellation to our Administrative Office or, in some states, to the agent who sold it to you or any agent of the Company, by the 10th day after you receive it (or such longer period as required under state law). Your coverage will terminate as of the business day we receive your request at our Administrative Office (or, in some states, as of the business day the agent receives your request).

In most states, we will refund the policy account value calculated as of the business day we receive your request for cancellation at our Administrative Office (or, in some states, as of the business day the agent receives your request), plus any charges that were deducted from premiums that were paid and from the policy account value, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. In other states, we will refund the premiums that were paid, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. Your policy will set forth the specific terms of your “Right to Examine” the policy.

Canceling your policy if you have allocated to the MSO  If you have allocated policy amounts to the MSO, different procedures may apply. Please see “Your right to cancel within a certain number of days” in the “Description of the Market Stabilizer Option^®” section of the MSO Prospectus for more information about canceling your policy.

In addition to the cancellation right described above, you have the right to surrender your policy, rather than cancel it. Please see “Surrendering your policy for its net cash surrender value,” in this prospectus. Surrendering your policy may yield results different than canceling your policy, including a greater potential for taxable income. In some cases, your cash value upon surrender may be greater than your contributions to the policy. Please see “Tax information,” in this prospectus for possible consequences of cancelling your policy.

Dates and prices at which policy events occur

We describe below the general rules for when, and at what prices, events under your policy will occur. Other portions of this prospectus describe circumstances that may cause exceptions. We generally do not repeat those exceptions below.

Date of receipt.  Where this prospectus refers to the day when we receive a payment, request, election, notice, transfer or any other transaction request from you, we usually

mean the day on which that item (or the last thing necessary for us to process that item) arrives in complete and proper form at our Administrative Office or via the appropriate telephone or fax number if the item is a type we accept by those means. There are two main exceptions: if the item arrives (1) on a day that is not a business day or (2) after the close of a business day, then, in each case, we are deemed to have received that item on the next business day.

Business day.  Our “business day” is generally any day the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) is open for regular trading and generally ends at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (or as of an earlier close of regular trading). A business day does not include a day on which we are not open due to emergency conditions determined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. We may also close early due to such emergency conditions. We compute unit values for our variable investment options as of the end of each business day. In addition, the Investment Expense Reduction is applied to reduce the expenses when calculating the daily unit value for each variable investment option as of that day’s close of business, and if that day is not a business day, using the unit values computed as of the next business day’s close.

Third party agreements.  If we have entered into a prior written agreement that authorizes your financial professional to submit transfer requests and/or changes to allocation instructions on your behalf, any such transfer request or change to allocation instructions will be considered received by us on the business day it arrives from your financial professional in complete and proper form at our Administrative Office, or via the appropriate telephone or fax number if the item is of the type we accept by those means. We may terminate any such agreement at any time without prior notice.

Payments you make.  The following are reflected in your policy as of the date we receive them in complete and proper form:

• premium payments received after the policy’s investment start date (discussed below)

• loan repayments and interest payments

Requests you make.  The following transactions occur as of the date we receive your request in complete and proper form:

• withdrawals

• tax withholding elections

• face amount decreases that result from a withdrawal

• changes of allocation percentages for premium payments or monthly deductions

• surrenders

• changes of owner

• changes of beneficiary

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• transfers from a variable investment option to the guaranteed interest option

• loans

• transfers among variable investment options

• assignments

• policy cancellation

The following transactions occur on your policy’s next monthly anniversary that coincides with or follows the date we approve your request:

• changes in face amount

• restoration of terminated policies

• termination of any additional benefit riders you have elected

Automatic transfer service.  Transfers pursuant to our automatic transfer service (dollar-cost averaging) occur as of the first day of each policy month. If you request the automatic transfer service in your original policy application, the first transfer will occur as of the first day of the second policy month after your policy’s initial Allocation Date. If you request this service at any later time, we make the first such transfer as of your policy’s first monthly anniversary that coincides with or follows the date we receive your request.

Asset rebalancing service.  If you request the asset rebalancing service, the first redistribution will be on the date you specify or the date we receive your request, if later. However, no rebalancing will occur before your policy’s Allocation Date. Subsequent periodic rebalancings occur quarterly, semiannually or annually, as you have requested.

Delay in certain cases.  We may delay any transfer, for the same reasons stated in “Delay of variable investment option proceeds” in this prospectus. We may also delay such transactions for any other legally permitted purpose.

Prices applicable to policy transactions.  If a transaction will increase or decrease the amount you have in a variable investment option as of a certain date, we process the transaction using the unit values for that option computed as of that day’s close of business, unless that day is not a business day. In that case, we use unit values computed as of the next business day’s close.

Effect of death or surrender.  You may not make any surrender or partial withdrawal request after the insured person has died. Also, all insurance coverage ends on the date as of which we process any request for a surrender.

Policy issuance

Register date.  When we issue a policy, we assign it a “register date,” which will be shown in the policy. We measure the months, years, and anniversaries of your policy from your policy’s register date.

• If you submit the full minimum initial premium to your financial professional at the time you sign the application and before the policy is issued, and we issue the policy as it was applied for (or on a better risk class than applied for), then the register date will be the later of (a) the date you signed part I, section D of the policy application or (b) the date a medical or paramedical professional signed part II of the policy application.

• In general, if we do not receive your full minimum initial premium at our Administrative Office before the issue date or, if we issue the policy on a different (less favorable) basis than you applied for, the register date initially will appear on your policy as the date the policy is issued; however, we will move the register date to the date we deliver the policy provided we received your full minimum initial premium. If your policy was delivered on the 29th, 30th or 31st of the month, we will move the register date to the 1st of the following month. In limited circumstances, even if we issue your policy on a less favorable basis, the premium amount you paid may be sufficient to cover your full minimum initial premium. In this event, we will not move the register date to the delivery date. These procedures are designed to ensure that premiums and charges will commence on the same date as your insurance coverage. We will determine the interest rate applicable to the guaranteed interest option based on the register date. This rate will be applied to funds allocated to the guaranteed interest option as of the date we receive the full minimum initial premium at our Administrative Office.

• For Section 1035 exchanges:

• If you submit the full initial premium to your financial professional at the time you sign the application, and we issue the policy as it was applied for, then the register date will be the later of (a), the date you signed part I, section D of the policy application, or (b) the date a medical professional signed part II of the policy application.

• If we do not receive your full initial premium payment at our Administrative Office before the issue date, or we issue the policy on a different (less favorable) basis than you applied for, the register date will be:

• For Internal 1035 exchanges — your original policy will be surrendered as of the date the new policy is approved by the underwriter, and the register date of the new policy will be the same date.

• For External 1035 exchanges — the date we receive the 1035 exchange check from the external carrier, provided it meets the minimum initial premium requirement, otherwise the register date will be the date we deliver the policy to you provided we received your full minimum

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initial premium. If we received your full minimum initial premium or your policy was delivered on the 29th, 30th, or 31st of the month, we will move the register date to the 28th of the month.

We may also permit an earlier than customary register date (a) for employer-sponsored cases, to accommodate a common register date for all employees or (b) to provide a younger age at issue. (A younger age at issue reduces the monthly charges that we deduct under a policy.) The charges and deductions commence as of the register date, even when we have permitted an early register date. We may also permit policy owners to delay a register date (up to three months) in employer-sponsored cases.

Investment start date.  This is the business day your investment first begins to earn a return for you. Generally, this is the later of: (1) the business day we receive the full minimum initial premium at our Administrative Office; and (2) the register date of your policy. Before this date, your initial premium will be held in a non-interest bearing account.

Commencement of insurance coverage.  You must give the full minimum initial premium to your financial professional on or before the day the policy and all amendments are delivered to you. No insurance under your policy will take effect unless (1) the insured person is still living at the time such payment and all delivery requirements are completed and (2) the information in the application continues to be true and complete, without material change, as of the date the policy and all amendments are delivered to you and all delivery requirements have been completed and the full minimum initial premium is paid. If you submit the full minimum initial premium with your application, we may, subject to certain conditions, provide a limited amount of temporary insurance on the proposed insured person. You may request and review a copy of our temporary insurance agreement for more information about the terms and conditions of that coverage.

Non-issuance.  If, after considering your application, we decide not to issue a policy, we will refund any premium you have paid, without interest.

Age; age at issue.  Unless the context in this prospectus requires otherwise, we consider the insured person’s “age” during any policy year to be his or her age on his or her birthday nearest to the beginning of that policy year. For example, the insured person’s age for the first policy year (“age at issue”) is that person’s age on whichever birthday is closer to (i.e., before or after) the policy’s register date.

Ways to make premium and loan payments

Checks and money orders.  Premiums or loan payments generally must be paid by check or money order drawn on a U.S. bank in U.S. dollars and made payable to “Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America.”

We prefer that you make each payment to us with a single check drawn on your business or personal bank account. We also will accept a single money order, bank draft or cashier’s

check payable directly to Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America, although we must report such “cash equivalent” payments to the Internal Revenue Service under certain circumstances. Cash and travelers’ checks, or any payments in foreign currency, are not acceptable. We will accept third-party checks payable to someone other than Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America and endorsed over to Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America only (1) as a direct payment from a qualified retirement plan or (2) if they are made out to a trustee who owns the policy and endorses the entire check (without any refund) as a payment to the policy.

Assigning your policy

You may assign (transfer) your rights in a policy to someone else as collateral for a loan, to effect a change of ownership or for some other reason. Collateral assignments may also sometimes be used in connection with dividing the benefits of the policy under a split-dollar arrangement, which will also have its own tax consequences. A copy of the assignment must be forwarded to our Administrative Office. We are not responsible for any payment we make or any action we take before we receive notice of the assignment or for the validity of the assignment. An absolute assignment is a change of ownership.

Certain transfers for value may subject you to income tax and penalties and cause the death benefit to lose its income-tax free treatment. Further, a gift of a policy that has a loan outstanding may be treated as part gift and part transfer for value, which could result in both gift tax and income tax consequences. The IRS issued regulations in both 2002 and 2003 concerning split-dollar arrangements, including policies subject to collateral assignments. The regulations provide both new and interim guidance as to the taxation of such arrangements. These regulations address taxation issues in connection with arrangements which are compensatory in nature, involve a shareholder and corporation, or a donor and donee. See also discussion under “Split-dollar and other employee benefit programs” and “Estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes” in the “Tax information” section of this prospectus. You should consult your tax advisor prior to making a transfer or assignment.

Requirements for surrender requests

Your surrender request must include the policy number, your name, your taxpayer identification number, the name of the insured person, and the address where proceeds should be mailed. The request must be signed by you, as the owner, and by any joint owner, collateral assignee or irrevocable beneficiary. We may also require you to complete specific tax forms, other documentation we require, and provide a representation that your policy is not being exchanged for another life or annuity contract.

Gender-neutral policies

Congress and various states have from time to time considered legislation that would require insurance rates to be the

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same for males and females. In addition, employers and employee organizations should consider, in consultation with counsel, the impact of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on the purchase of the policy in connection with an employment-related insurance or benefit plan. In a 1983 decision, the United States Supreme Court held that, under Title VII, optional annuity benefits under a deferred compensation plan could not vary on the basis of sex.

There will be no distinctions based on sex in the cost of insurance rates for the policies sold in Montana. We will also make such gender-neutral policies available on request in connection with certain employee benefit plans. Cost of insurance rates applicable to a gender-neutral policy will not be greater than the comparable male rates under a gender specific policy.

Future policy exchanges

We may at some future time, under certain circumstances and subject to applicable law, allow the current owner of this policy to exchange it for a universal life policy we are then offering. The exchange may or may not be advantageous to you, based on all of the circumstances, including a comparison of contractual terms and conditions and charges and deductions. We will provide additional information upon request at such time as exchanges may be permitted.

Broker transaction authority

After your policy has been issued, we may accept transfer requests and changes to your premium allocation instructions or fund transfers by telephone, mail, facsimile or electronically, and requests for automatic transfer service and asset rebalancing service in writing, by mail or facsimile, from your financial professional, provided that we have your prior written authorization to do so on file. Accordingly, the Company will rely on the stated identity of the person placing instructions as authorized to do so on your behalf. The Company will not be liable for any claim, loss, liability or expenses that may arise out of such instructions. The Company will continue to rely on this authorization until it receives your written notification at its processing office that you have withdrawn this authorization. The Company may change or terminate telephone or electronic or overnight mail transfer procedures at any time without prior notice and restrict facsimile, internet, telephone and other electronic transfer services because of disruptive transfer activity. The Company may terminate any such authorization at any time without prior notice.

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11. More information about other matters

About our general account

This policy is offered to customers through various financial institutions, brokerage firms and their affiliate insurance agencies. No financial institution, brokerage firm or insurance agency has any liability with respect to a policy’s account value or any guaranteed benefits with which the policy was issued. The Company is solely responsible to the policy owner for the policy’s account value and such guaranteed benefits. The general obligations and any guaranteed benefits under the policy are supported by the Company’s general account and are subject to the Company’s claims paying ability. An owner should look to the financial strength of the Company for its claims paying ability. Assets in the general account are not segregated for the exclusive benefit of any particular policy or obligation. General account assets are also available to the insurer’s general creditors and the conduct of its routine business activities, such as the payment of salaries, rent and other ordinary business expenses. For more information about the Company’s financial strength, you may review its financial statements and/or check its current rating with one or more of the independent sources that rate insurance companies for their financial strength and stability. Such ratings are subject to change and have no bearing on the performance of the variable investment options. You may also speak with your financial representative.

The general account is subject to regulation and supervision by the Commisioner of Insurance in the state of Arizona and to the insurance laws and regulations of all jurisdictions where we are authorized to do business. Interests under the policies in the general account have not been registered and are not required to be registered under the Securities Act of 1933 because of exemptions and exclusionary provisions that apply. The general account is not required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and it is not registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The policy is a “covered security” under the federal securities laws.

The disclosure with regard to the general account is subject to certain provisions of the federal securities law relating to the accuracy and completeness of statements made in prospectuses.

Transfers of your policy account value

Transfers not implemented.  If a request cannot be fully administered, only the part that is in good order will be processed. Any part of the request that cannot be processed will be denied and an explanation will be provided to you. This could occur, for example, where the request does not comply with our transfer limitations, or where you request transfer of an amount greater than that currently allocated to an investment option.

Similarly, the automatic transfer service will terminate immediately if: (1) your amount in the EQ/Money Market option is insufficient to cover the automatic transfer amount; (2) your policy is in a grace period; or (3) we receive notice of the insured person’s death. Similarly, the asset rebalancing program will terminate if either (2) or (3) occurs.

Disruptive transfer activity.  You should note that the policy is not designed for professional “market timing” organizations, or other organizations or individuals engaging in a market timing strategy. The policy is not designed to accommodate programmed transfers, frequent transfers or transfers that are large in relation to the total assets of the underlying portfolio.

Frequent transfers, including market timing and other program trading or short-term trading strategies, may be disruptive to the underlying portfolios in which the variable investment options invest. Disruptive transfer activity may adversely affect performance and the interests of long-term investors by requiring a portfolio to maintain larger amounts of cash or to liquidate portfolio holdings at a disadvantageous time or price. For example, when market timing occurs, a portfolio may have to sell its holdings to have the cash necessary to redeem the market timer’s investment. This can happen when it is not advantageous to sell any securities, so the portfolio’s performance may be hurt. When large dollar amounts are involved, market timing can also make it difficult to use long-term investment strategies because a portfolio cannot predict how much cash it will have to invest. In addition, disruptive transfers or purchases and redemptions of portfolio investments may impede efficient portfolio management and impose increased transaction costs, such as brokerage costs, by requiring the portfolio manager to effect more frequent purchases and sales of portfolio securities. Similarly, a portfolio may bear increased administrative costs as a result of the asset level and investment volatility that accompanies patterns of excessive or short-term trading. Portfolios that invest a significant portion of their assets in foreign securities or the securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies tend to be subject to the risks associated with market timing and short-term trading strategies to a greater extent than portfolios that do not. Securities trading in overseas markets present time zone arbitrage opportunities when events affecting portfolio securities values occur after the close of the overseas market but prior to the close of the U.S. markets. Securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies present arbitrage opportunities because the market for such securities may be less liquid than the market for securities of larger companies, which could result in pricing inefficiencies. Please see the prospectuses for the underlying portfolios for more information on how portfolio shares are priced.

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We currently use the procedures described below to discourage disruptive transfer activity. You should understand, however, that these procedures are subject to the following limitations: (1) they primarily rely on the policies and procedures implemented by the underlying portfolios; (2) they do not eliminate the possibility that disruptive transfer activity, including market timing, will occur or that portfolio performance will be affected by such activity; and (3) the design of market timing procedures involves inherently subjective judgments, which we seek to make in a fair and reasonable manner consistent with the interests of all policy owners.

We offer investment options with underlying portfolios that are part of EQ Premier VIP Trust and EQ Advisors Trust (together, the “affiliated trusts”), as well as investment options with underlying portfolios of outside trusts with which the Company has entered participation agreements (the “unaffiliated trusts” and, collectively with the affiliated trusts, the “trusts”). The affiliated trusts have adopted policies and procedures regarding disruptive transfer activity. They discourage frequent purchases and redemptions of portfolio shares and will not make special arrangements to accommodate such transactions. They aggregate inflows and outflows for each portfolio on a daily basis. On any day when a portfolio’s net inflows or outflows exceed an established monitoring threshold, the affiliated trust obtains from us policy owner trading activity. The affiliated trusts currently consider transfers into and out of (or vice versa) the same variable investment option within a five business day period as potentially disruptive transfer activity.

When a policy is identified in connection with potentially disruptive transfer activity for the first time, a letter is sent to the policy owner explaining that the Company has a policy against disruptive transfer activity and that if such activity continues, certain transfer privileges may be eliminated. If and when the policy owner is identified a second time as engaged in potentially disruptive transfer activity under the policy, we currently prohibit the use of voice, fax and automated transaction services. We currently apply such action for the remaining life of each affected policy. We or a trust may change the definition of potentially disruptive transfer activity, the monitoring procedures and thresholds, any notification procedures, and the procedures to restrict this activity. Any new or revised policies and procedures will apply to all policy owners uniformly. We do not permit exceptions to our policies restricting disruptive transfer activity.

Each unaffiliated trust may have its own policies and procedures regarding disruptive transfer activity. If an unaffiliated trust advises us that there may be disruptive activity from one of our policy owners, we will work with the unaffiliated trust to review policy owner trading activity. Each trust reserves the right to reject a transfer that it believes, in its sole discretion, is disruptive (or potentially disruptive) to the management of one of its portfolios. Please see the prospectuses for the trusts for more information.

It is possible that a trust may impose a redemption fee designed to discourage frequent or disruptive trading by policy owners. As of the date of this prospectus, the trusts had not implemented such a fee. If a redemption fee is implemented by a trust, that fee, like any other trust fee, will be borne by the policy owner.

Policy owners should note that it is not always possible for us and the underlying trusts to identify and prevent disruptive transfer activity. In addition, because we do not monitor for all frequent trading at the separate account level, policy owners may engage in frequent trading which may not be detected, for example, due to low net inflows or outflows on the particular day(s). Therefore, no assurance can be given that we or the trusts will successfully impose restrictions on all potentially disruptive transfers. Because there is no guarantee that disruptive trading will be stopped, some policy owners may be treated differently than others, resulting in the risk that some policy owners may be able to engage in frequent transfer activity while others will bear the effect of that frequent transfer activity. The potential effects of frequent transfer activity are discussed above.

Telephone and Internet requests

If you are a properly authorized person, you may make transfers between investment options over the Internet as described in this prospectus in “How to make transfers” under “Transferring your money among our investment options.”

Also, you may make the following additional types of requests by calling the number under “By Phone:” in “How to reach us” from a touch-tone phone, if the policy is individually owned and you are the owner, or through www.equitable.com if you are the individual owner:

• changes of premium allocation percentages

• changes of address

• request forms and statements

• to request a policy loan (loan requests cannot be made online by corporate policy owners)

• enroll for electronic delivery and view statements/documents online

• to pay your premium or make a loan repayment

For security purposes, all telephone requests are automatically tape-recorded and are invalid if the information given is incomplete or any portion of the request is inaudible. We have established procedures reasonably designed to confirm that telephone instructions are genuine.

If you wish to enroll through www.equitable.com, you must first agree to the terms and conditions set forth in our www.equitable.com Online Services Agreement, which you can find at our website. We will send you a confirmation letter by first class mail. Additionally, you will be required to use a password and protect it from unauthorized use. We will provide subsequent written

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confirmation of any transactions. We will assume that all instructions received through www.equitable.com are given by you; however, we reserve the right to refuse to process any transaction and/or block access to www.equitable.com if we have reason to believe the instructions given are unauthorized.

If we do not employ reasonable procedures to confirm the genuineness of telephone or Internet instructions, we may be liable for any losses arising out of any act or omission that constitutes negligence, lack of good faith, or willful misconduct. In light of our procedures, we will not be liable for following telephone or Internet instructions that we reasonably believe to be genuine.

We reserve the right to refuse to process any telephone or Internet transactions if we have reason to believe that the request compromises the general security and/or integrity of our automated systems (see discussion of “Disruptive transfer activity” above).

Any telephone, Internet or fax transaction request that is not completed by the close of a business day (which is usually 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time) will be processed as of the next business day. During times of extreme market activity, or for other reasons, you may be unable to contact us to make a telephone or Internet request. If this occurs, you should submit a written transaction request to our Administrative Office. We reserve the right to discontinue telephone or Internet transactions, or modify the procedures and conditions for such transactions, without notifying you, at any time.

COVID-19

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. Equity and financial markets have experienced increased volatility and negative returns, and interest rates have declined due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other market factors. Such events can adversely impact us and our operations. Management believes the Company is taking appropriate actions to mitigate the negative impact to our business and operations. However, the full impact of COVID-19 is unknown and cannot be reasonably estimated or predicted at this time as these events are still developing.

Moreover, these market conditions have impacted the performance of the funds underlying the variable investment options. If these market conditions continue, and depending on your individual circumstances (e.g., your selected investment options and the timing of any contributions, transfers, or withdrawals), you may experience (perhaps significant) negative returns under the policy. The duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the future impact that the pandemic may have on the financial markets and global economy, cannot be foreseen, however. You should consult with a financial professional about how the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent market conditions may impact your future investment decisions related to the policy, such as purchasing the policy or making contributions, transfers, or withdrawals, based on your individual circumstances.

Cybersecurity risks and catastrophic events

We rely heavily on interconnected computer systems and digital data to conduct our variable product business. Because our variable product business is highly dependent upon the effective operation of our computer systems and those of our business partners, our business is vulnerable to disruptions from utility outages, and susceptible to operational and information security risks resulting from information systems failure (e.g., hardware and software malfunctions), and cyber-attacks. These risks include, among other things, the theft, misuse, corruption and destruction of data maintained online or digitally, interference with or denial of service, attacks on websites and other operational disruption and unauthorized use or abuse of confidential customer information. Systems failures and cyberattacks, as well as, any other catastrophic event, including natural and manmade disasters, public health emergencies, pandemic diseases, terrorist attacks, floods or severe storms affecting us, any third-party administrator, the underlying funds, intermediaries and other affiliated or third-party service providers may adversely affect us, our business operations and your account value. Systems failures and cyber-attacks may also interfere with our processing of contract transactions, including the processing of orders from our website or with the underlying funds, impact our ability to calculate account values, cause the release and possible destruction of confidential customer or business information, impede order processing, subject us and/or our service providers and intermediaries to regulatory fines and financial losses and/or cause reputational damage. In addition, the occurrence of any pandemic disease (like COVID-19), natural disaster, terrorist attack or any other event that results in our workforce, and/or employees of service providers and/or third party administrators, being compromised and unable or unwilling to fully perform their responsibilities, could likewise result in interruptions in our service, including our ability to issue contracts and process contract transactions. Even if our workforce and employees of our service providers and/or third party administrators were able to work remotely, those remote work arrangements could result in our business operations being less efficient than under normal circumstances and lead to delays in our issuing contracts and processing of other contract-related transactions. Cybersecurity risks and catastrophic events may also impact the issuers of securities in which the underlying funds invest, which may cause the funds underlying your contract to lose value. While there can be no assurance that we or the underlying funds or our service providers will avoid losses affecting your contract due to cyber-attacks, information security breaches or other catastrophic events in the future, we take reasonable steps to mitigate these risks and secure our systems and business operations from such failures, attacks and events.

Suicide and certain misstatements

If the insured person commits suicide within two years after the date of issue, our liability will be limited to the payment of a single sum. This sum will be equal to the premiums paid, minus any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest or liens and minus any partial withdrawal.

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If the insured person commits suicide within two years after the effective date of any policy restoration, our liability will be limited to the payment of a single sum. This sum will be equal to the premiums paid on and after the effective date of restoration, minus any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest or liens and minus any partial withdrawal.

If the insured person commits suicide within two years after the effective date of a change that you asked for that increases the death benefit, then our liability as to the increase in amount will be limited to the payment of a single sum equal to the monthly cost of insurance deductions and any monthly administrative charge deductions made for such increase.If the insured person’s age or sex has been misstated on any application, and we become aware of this fact while the insured person is alive, we will make a retrospective recalculation of the policy account. Future monthly deductions from the policy account will be based upon the rates for the correct age and sex.

If the insured person’s age or sex has been misstated on any application, and we become aware of this fact on or after the date of death of the insured person, the death benefit and any benefits provided by riders to this policy will be those which would be purchased by the most recent deduction for the cost of insurance, and the cost of any benefits provided by riders, at the rates for the correct age and sex.

When we pay policy proceeds

General.  We will generally pay any death benefit, surrender, withdrawal, or loan within seven days after we receive the request and any other required items.

Clearance of checks.  We reserve the right to defer payment of that portion of your policy account value that is attributable to a premium payment or loan repayment made by check for a reasonable period of time (not to exceed 15 days) to allow the check to clear the banking system.

Delay of guaranteed interest option proceeds.  We also have the right to defer payment or transfers of amounts out of our guaranteed interest option for up to six months. If we delay more than 30 days in paying you such amounts, we will pay interest of at least 3% per year from the date we receive your request.

Delay of variable investment option proceeds.  We reserve the right to defer payment of any death benefit, transfer, loan or other distribution that is derived from a variable investment option if (a) the New York Stock Exchange is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings) or trading on that exchange is restricted; (b) the SEC has declared that an emergency exists, as a result of which disposal of securities is not reasonably practicable or it is not reasonably practicable to fairly determine the policy account value; or (c) the law permits the delay for the protection of owners.

Delay to challenge coverage.  We may challenge the validity of your insurance policy or any rider based on any material misstatements in an application you have made to us. We

cannot make such challenges, however, beyond certain time limits set forth in the policy or rider. If the insured person dies within one of these limits, we may delay payment of any proceeds until we decide whether to challenge the policy.

Changes we can make

In addition to any of the other changes described in this prospectus, we have the right to modify how we or Equitable America Variable Account K operate. For example, we have the right to:

• combine two or more variable investment options or withdraw assets relating to the policy from one investment option and put them into another;

• end the registration of, or re-register, Equitable America Variable Account K under the Investment Company Act of 1940;

• operate Equitable America Variable Account K under the direction of a “committee” or discharge such a committee at any time;

• restrict or eliminate any voting rights or privileges of policy owners (or other persons) that affect Equitable America Variable Account K;

• operate Equitable America Variable Account K, or one or more of the variable investment options, in any other form the law allows. This includes any form that allows us to make direct investments, in which case we may charge Equitable America Variable Account K an advisory fee. We may make any legal investments we wish for Equitable America Variable Account K. In addition, we may disapprove any change in investment advisers or in investment policy unless a law or regulation provides differently.

If we take any action that results in a material change in the underlying investments of a variable investment option, we will notify you to the extent required by law. We may, for example, cause the variable investment option to invest in a mutual fund other than, or in addition to, the Trusts. If you then wish to transfer the amount you have in that option to another investment option, you may do so.

We may make any changes in the policy or its riders, require additional premium payments, or make distributions from the policy to the extent we deem necessary to ensure that your policy qualifies or continues to qualify as life insurance for tax purposes. Any such change will apply uniformly to all policies that are affected. We will give you written notice of such changes. Subject to all applicable legal requirements, we also may make other changes in the policies that do not reduce any net cash surrender value, death benefit, policy account value, or other accrued rights or benefits.

Whether to make any of the above discussed changes is generally within our discretion, although some such changes might require us to obtain regulatory or policy owner approval. Whether regulatory or policy owner approval is required would depend on the nature of the

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change and, in many cases, the manner in which the change is implemented. You should not assume, therefore, that you necessarily will have an opportunity to approve or disapprove any such changes. We will, of course, comply with applicable legal requirements, including notice to or approval by policy owners where required in particular cases.

It is not possible to foresee all of the circumstances under which we may find it necessary or appropriate to exercise our right to make changes. Such circumstances could, however, include changes in law, or interpretations thereof; changes in financial or investment market conditions; changes in accepted methods of conducting operations in the relevant market; or a desire to achieve material operating economies or efficiencies.

Reports we will send you

Shortly after the end of each year of your policy, we will send you a report that includes information about your policy’s current death benefit, policy account value, cash surrender value (i.e., policy account value minus any current surrender charge), policy loans, policy transactions and amounts of charges deducted. We will send you individual notices to confirm your premium payments, loan repayments, transfers and certain other policy transactions. Please promptly review all statements and confirmations and notify us immediately at 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.) if there are any errors.

Distribution of the policies

The policies are distributed by both Equitable Advisors and Equitable Distributors. The Distributors serve as principal underwriters of Equitable America Variable Account K. The offering of the policies is intended to be continuous.

Equitable Advisors is an affiliate of the Company and Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company, and Equitable Distributors is an affiliate of the Company and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company. The Distributors are under the common control of Equitable Holdings, Inc. Their principal business address is 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104. The Distributors are registered with the SEC as broker-dealers and are members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”). Both broker-dealers also act as distributors for other Company life and annuity products we issue.

The policies are sold by financial professionals of Equitable Advisors and its affiliates. The policies are also sold by financial professionals of unaffiliated broker-dealers that have entered into selling agreements with Equitable Distributors (“Selling broker-dealers”).

The Company pays compensation to both Distributors based on policies sold. The Company may also make additional payments to the Distributors, and the Distributors may, in turn, make additional payments to certain Selling broker-dealers. All payments will be in compliance with all applicable FINRA rules and other laws and regulations.

Although the Company takes into account all of its distribution and other costs in establishing the level of fees and charges under its policies, none of the compensation paid to the Distributors or the Selling broker-dealers discussed in this section of the prospectus are imposed as separate fees or charges under your policy. The Company, however, intends to recoup amounts it pays for distribution and other services through the fees and charges of the policy and payments it receives for providing administrative, distribution and other services to the Portfolios. For information about the fees and charges under the policy, see “More information about policy charges” and “More information about policy charges” in this prospectus.

As used below, the “target premium” is actuarially determined for each policy, based on that policy’s specific characteristics, as well as the policy’s face amount among other factors.

Equitable Advisors Compensation.  The Company pays compensation to Equitable Advisors based on premium payments made on the policies sold through Equitable Advisors (“premium-based compensation”). Equitable Advisors, in turn, may pay a portion of the premium-based compensation received from the Company to the Equitable Advisors financial professional and/or the Selling broker-dealer making the sale. The premium-based compensation will generally not exceed:

— 8.5% of the premiums you pay up to one target premium in your policy’s first year, plus 3.5% of all other premiums you pay in your policy’s first year;

— 14% of the premiums you pay up to one target premium in your policy’s second year, plus 5% of all other premiums you pay in your policy’s second year;

— 12.75% of the premiums you pay up to one target premium in policy years three through five, plus 5% of all other premiums you pay in your policy years three through five;

— 10.75% of the premiums you pay up to one target premium in policy years six through seven; plus

— 3% of all other premiums you pay in your policy years six through seven; plus 3% of all other premiums you pay in policy years eight through ten; plus

— 2% of all other premiums you pay in policy years eleven and later.

The compensation paid by Equitable Advisors varies among financial professionals and among Selling broker-dealers. Equitable Advisors also pays a portion of the compensation it receives to its managerial personnel. When a policy is sold by a Selling broker-dealer, the Selling broker-dealer, not Equitable Advisors, determines the amount of compensation paid to the Selling broker-dealer’s financial professional for the sale of the policy. Therefore, you should contact your financial professional for information about the compensation he or she receives and any related incentives, as described below.

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Equitable Advisors may receive compensation, and, in turn, pay its financial professionals a portion of such fee, from third party investment advisors to whom its financial professionals refer customers for professional management of the assets within their policy.

Equitable Advisors also pays its financial professionals and managerial personnel other types of compensation including service fees, expense allowance payments and health and retirement benefits. Equitable Advisors also pays its financial professionals, managerial personnel and Selling broker-dealers sales bonuses (based on selling certain products during specified periods) and persistency bonuses. Equitable Advisors may offer sales incentive programs to financial professionals and Selling broker-dealers who meet specified production levels for the sales of both the Company’s policies and policies offered by other companies. These incentives provide non-cash compensation such as stock options awards and/or stock appreciation rights, expense-paid trips, expense-paid education seminars and merchandise.

Differential compensation.  In an effort to promote the sale of the Company’s products, Equitable Advisors may pay its financial professionals and managerial personnel a greater percentage of premium-based compensation and/or asset-based compensation for the sale of our policy than it pays for the sale of a policy or other financial product issued by a company other than us. Equitable Advisors may pay different compensation on the sale of the same product, based on such factors as distribution, group or sponsored arrangements, or based on older or newer versions, or series, of the same policy. Equitable Advisors also pay different levels of compensation based on different policy types. This practice is known as providing “differential compensation.” Differential compensation may involve other forms of compensation to Equitable Advisors personnel. Certain components of the compensation paid to managerial personnel are based on whether the sales involve the Company’s policies. Managers earn higher compensation (and credits toward awards and bonuses) if the financial professionals they manage sell a higher percentage of the Company’s policies than products issued by other companies. Other forms of compensation provided to its financial professionals and/or managerial personnel include health and retirement benefits, expense reimbursements, marketing allowances and premium-based payments, known as “overrides.” For tax reasons, Equitable Advisors financial professionals qualify for health and retirement benefits based solely on their sales of Equitable policies and products sponsored by affiliates.

The fact that Equitable Advisors financial professionals receive differential compensation and additional payments may provide an incentive for those financial professionals to recommend our policy over a policy or other financial product issued by a company not affiliated with the Company. However, under applicable rules of FINRA and other federal and state regulatory authorities, Equitable Advisors financial professionals may only recommend to you products that they reasonably believe are suitable for you and, for certain

accounts depending on applicable rules, that are in your best interest, based on the facts that you have disclosed as to your other security holdings, financial situation and needs. In making any recommendation, financial professionals of Equitable Advisors may nonetheless face conflicts of interest because of the differences in compensation from one product category to another, and because of differences in compensation among products in the same category. For more information, contact your financial professional.

Equitable Distributors Compensation.  The Company pays premium-based compensation (“compensation”) to Equitable Distributors. Premium-based compensation is paid based on the Company’s policies sold through Equitable Distributors’ Selling broker-dealers. The premium-based compensation will generally not exceed:

— 14.5% of the premiums you pay up to one target premium in your policy’s first two years, plus 2.8% of all other premiums you pay in your policy’s first year; plus

— 9% of the premiums you pay up to one target premium in policy years two through seven, plus 2.8% of all other premiums you pay in your policy years two through seven; plus

— 2.8% of all other premiums you pay in policy years eight through ten.

Equitable Distributors, in turn, pays a portion of the compensation it receives to the Selling broker-dealer making the sale.

The compensation paid by Equitable Distributors varies among Selling broker-dealers.

The Selling broker-dealer, not Equitable Distributors, determines the amount of compensation paid to the Selling broker-dealer’s financial professional for the sale of the policy. Therefore, you should contact your financial professional for information about the compensation he or she receives and any related incentives, such as differential compensation paid for various products.

These payments above also include compensation to cover operating expenses and marketing services under the terms of the Company’s distribution agreements with Equitable Distributors.

Additional payments by Equitable Distributors to Selling broker-dealers. Equitable Distributors may pay, out of its assets, certain Selling broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries additional compensation in recognition of services provided or expenses incurred. Equitable Distributors may also pay certain Selling broker-dealers or other financial intermediaries additional compensation for enhanced marketing opportunities and other services (commonly referred to as “marketing allowances”). Services for which such payments are made may include, but are not limited to, the preferred placement of the Company’s products on a company and/or product list; sales personnel training; product training; business reporting; technological support; due diligence and related costs; advertising, marketing and related services;

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conference; and/or other support services, including some that may benefit the policy owner . Payments may be based on ongoing sales, on the aggregate account value attributable to policies sold through a Selling broker-dealer or such payments may be a fixed amount. For certain selling broker-dealers, Equitable Distributors increases the marketing allowance as certain sales thresholds are met. Equitable Distributors may also make fixed payments to Selling broker-dealers, for example in connection with the initiation of a new relationship or the introduction of a new product.

Additionally, as an incentive for the financial professionals of Selling broker-dealers to promote the sale of the Company products, Equitable Distributors may increase the sales compensation paid to the Selling broker-dealer for a period of time (commonly referred to as “compensation enhancements”). Equitable Distributors also has entered into agreements with certain selling broker-dealers in which the selling broker-dealer agrees to sell certain of our policies exclusively.

These additional payments may serve as an incentive for Selling broker-dealers to promote the sale of the Company’s policies over policies and other products issued by other companies. Not all Selling broker-dealers receive additional payments, and the payments vary among Selling broker-dealers. The list below includes the names of Selling broker-dealers that we are aware (as of December 31, 2020) received additional payments. These additional payments ranged from $209.00 to $6,528,369.16. The Company and its affiliates may also have other business relationships with Selling broker-dealers, which may provide an incentive for the Selling broker-dealers to promote the sale of the Company’s policies over policies and other products issued by other companies. The list below includes any such Selling broker-dealer. For more information, ask your financial professional.

Allstate Financial Services, LLC

American Portfolios Financial Services

Ameriprise Financial Services

Avantax Investment Services, Inc.

BBVA Securities, Inc.

Cabot Lodge Securities, LLC

Cadaret, Grant & Co., Inc.

Cambridge Investment Research

Centaurus Financial, Inc.

Cetera Financial Group

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

Citizens Investment Services

Commonwealth Financial Network

Community America Financial Solution

CUNA Brokerage Services

CUSO Financial Services, L.P.

DPL Financial Partners

Equity Services Inc.

Farmer’s Financial Solution

Galt Financial Group, Inc.

Geneos Wealth Management

Gradient Securities, LLC

H. Beck, Inc.

Huntleigh Securities Corp.

Independent Financial Group, LLC

Infinex Investments Inc.

Janney Montgomery Scott LLC

Kestra Investment Services, LLC

Key Investment Services LLC

Ladenburg Thalmann Advisor Network, LLC

Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp.

Lincoln Financial Securities Corp.

Lincoln Investment Planning

Lion Street Financial

LPL Financial Corporation

Lucia Securities, LLC

MML Investors Services, LLC

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Mutual of Omaha Investment Services, Inc.

Next Financial Group, Inc.

Park Avenue Securities, LLC

PlanMember Securities Corp.

PNC Investments

Primerica Financial Services, Inc.

Pruco Securities, LLC

Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Inc.

Raymond James

RBC Capital Markets Corporation

Santander Securities Corp.

Sigma Financial Corporation

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc.

SunTrust Investment Services, Inc.

The Advisor Group (AIG)

The Huntington Investment Company

The Leaders Group, Inc.

TransAmerica Financial Advisors

U.S. Bank Center

UBS Financial Services Inc.

Valmark Securities, Inc.

Voya Financial Advisors, Inc.

Waddell & Reed, Inc.

Wells Fargo

Legal proceedings

The Company and its affiliates are parties to various legal proceedings. In our view, none of these proceedings would be considered material with respect to a policy owner’s interest in Equitable America Variable Account K, nor would any of these proceedings be likely to have a material adverse effect on Equitable America Variable Account K, our ability to meet our obligations under the policies, or the distribution of the policies.

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12. Financial statements of Equitable America Variable Account K and the Company

The financial statements of Equitable America Variable Account K, as well as the consolidated financial statements of the Company, are in the Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”).

The financial statements of the Company have relevance for the policies only to the extent that they bear upon the ability of the Company to meet its obligations under the policies. You may request an SAI by writing to our Administrative Office or by calling 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.) and requesting to speak with a customer service representative.

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13. Personalized illustrations

Illustrations of policy benefits

Hypothetical and personalized illustrations.  Illustrations are intended to show how different fees, charges and rates of return can affect the values available under a policy. Illustrations are based upon characteristics of a hypothetical insured person as well as other assumed factors. This type of illustration is called a hypothetical illustration. Illustrations can also be based upon some of the characteristics of the insured person under your policy as well as some other policy feature choices you make such as the face amount, premium payment amounts and assumed rates of return (within limits). This type of illustration is called a personalized illustration. No illustration will ever show you the actual values available under your policy at any given point in time. This is because many factors affect these values including: (i) the insured person’s characteristics; (ii) policy features you choose; (iii) actual premium payments you make; (iv) loans or withdrawals you make; and (v) actual rates of return (including the actual fees and expenses) of the underlying portfolios in which your cash value is invested. Each hypothetical or personalized illustration is accompanied by an explanation of the assumptions on which that illustration is based. Because, as discussed below, these assumptions may differ considerably, you should carefully review all of the disclosure that accompanies each illustration.

Different kinds of illustrations.  Both the hypothetical illustrations in this prospectus and personalized illustrations can reflect the investment management fees and expenses incurred in 2020 (or expected to be incurred in 2021, if such amount is expected to be higher) of the available underlying portfolios in different ways. An arithmetic illustration uses the straight average of all of the available underlying portfolios’ investment management fees and expenses. A weighted illustration computes the average of investment management fees and expenses based upon the aggregate assets in the Portfolios at the end of 2020. You may request a weighted illustration that computes the average of investment management fees and expenses of all portfolios. If you request, a weighted illustration can also illustrate an assumed percentage allocation of policy account values among the available underlying portfolios. A fund specific illustration uses only the investment management fees and expenses of a specific underlying portfolio. A historical illustration reflects the actual performance of one of the available underlying portfolios during a stated period. When reviewing a weighted or fund specific illustration you should keep in mind that the values shown may be higher than the values shown in other illustrations because the fees and expenses that are assumed may be lower than those assumed in other illustrations. When reviewing an historical

illustration you should keep in mind that values based upon past performance are no indication of what the values will be based on future performance. You may also request a personalized illustration of the guaranteed interest option that assumes a portion of net premiums allocated to the guaranteed interest option.

The effect of the expense limitation arrangements. The illustrations in this prospectus do not reflect the expense limitation arrangements. Personalized illustrations reflect the expense limitation arrangements that are in effect with respect to certain of the Portfolios. If these fees and expenses were not reduced to reflect the expense limitation arrangements, the values in the personalized illustrations would be lower.

Appendix: “Hypothetical illustrations” to this prospectus contains an arithmetic hypothetical illustration.

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Appendix: Investment options available under the policy

The following is a list of variable investment options available under the policy. More information about the variable investment options is available in the prospectuses for the Investment Options, which may be amended from time to time and can be found online at www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162725. You can request this information at no cost by calling 1-877-522-5035 or by sending an email request to EquitableFunds@dfinsolutions.com.

The current expenses and performance information below reflects fees and expenses of the variable investment options, but do not reflect the other fees and expenses that your policy may charge. Expenses would be higher and performance would be lower if these charges were included. Each variable investment option’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of future performance.

Affiliated Variable Investment Options:

Type	Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub-Adviser(s), as applicable			Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/2020)
		Current   Expenses		1 year		5 year		10 year
Specialty	1290 VT Convertible Securities - Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC (“EIMG”); SSgA Funds Management, Inc.		0.90%^		39.08%		18.19%		15.22%
Asset Allocation	1290 VT DoubleLine Dynamic Allocation - EIMG; DoubleLine Capital LP		1.20%^		13.10%		8.61%		8.80%
Fixed Income	1290 VT DoubleLine Opportunistic Bond - EIMG; DoubleLine Capital LP		0.95%^		4.26%		3.76%		4.01%
Equity	1290 VT Equity Income - EIMG; Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss LLC		0.95%^		-4.52%		1.55%		6.50%
Specialty	1290 VT GAMCO Mergers & Acquisitions - EIMG; GAMCO Asset Management, Inc.		1.30%^		-1.33%		0.66%		3.12%
Equity	1290 VT GAMCO Small Company Value - EIMG; GAMCO Asset Management, Inc.		1.07%		9.51%		4.48%		10.29%
Equity	1290 VT Low Volatility Global Equity - EIMG		0.91%^		-1.33%		4.51%		7.99%
Specialty	1290 VT Multi-Alternative Strategies - EIMG		1.65%^		4.54%		2.61%		—
Specialty	1290 VT Natural Resources - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.90%^		-15.65%		-6.96%		3.17%
Specialty	1290 VT Real Estate - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.90%^		-8.98%		1.57%		3.86%
Equity	1290 VT Small Cap Value - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Horizon Kinetics Asset Management, LLC		1.15%^		-1.51%		3.15%		8.99%
Equity	1290 VT SmartBeta Equity - EIMG; AXA Rosenberg Investment Management, LLC		1.10%^		10.95%		9.78%		11.26%
Equity	1290 VT Socially Responsible - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC		0.93%		20.01%		14.33%		14.62%
Equity	EQ/AB Small Cap Growth - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.92%		36.05%		17.01%		17.21%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Aggressive Allocation* - EIMG		1.16%		15.41%		9.45%		11.17%
Asset Allocation	EQ/All Asset Growth Allocation - EIMG		1.25%		12.29%		7.33%		9.44%
Equity	EQ/American Century Mid Cap Value - EIMG; American Century Investment Management, Inc.		1.00%^		1.32%		—		—
Equity	EQ/ClearBridge Large Cap Growth - EIMG; ClearBridge Investment, LLC		1.00%^		30.85%		19.85%		16.87%
Equity	EQ/Common Stock Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.68%^		19.76%		13.68%		14.61%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Conservative Allocation* - EIMG		1.00%^		7.35%		4.90%		4.51%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Conservative Plus Allocation* - EIMG		1.09%		9.96%		6.33%		6.51%
Fixed Income	EQ/Core Bond Index - EIMG; SSgA Funds Management, Inc.		0.65%^		6.09%		4.17%		3.06%
Equity	EQ/Emerging Markets Equity PLUS - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.; EARNST Partners, LLC		1.29%^		14.10%		4.53%		10.91%
Equity	EQ/Equity 500 Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.55%^		17.76%		13.53%		14.52%
Equity	EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends - EIMG; Franklin Advisers, Inc.		0.87%^		16.19%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/Franklin Strategic Income - EIMG; Franklin Advisers, Inc.		0.93%^		4.99%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Goldman Sachs Mid Cap Value - EIMG; Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.		1.09%^		8.46%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/Intermediate Government Bond - EIMG; SSGA Funds Management, Inc.		0.65%^		4.34%		3.08%		2.00%

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Type	Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub-Adviser(s), as applicable			Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/2020)
		Current   Expenses		1 year		5 year		10 year
Equity	EQ/International Core Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; EARNST Partners, LLC; Federated Global Investment Management Corp.; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.06%		8.45%		4.18%		7.44%
Equity	EQ/International Equity Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.79%^		3.89%		2.47%		6.26%
Equity	EQ/International Value Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Harris Associates L.P.		1.06%		4.20%		2.18%		5.81%
Equity	EQ/Invesco Comstock - EIMG; Invesco Advisers, Inc.		1.00%^		-0.77%		2.81%		8.52%
Equity	EQ/Invesco Global - EIMG; Invesco Advisers, Inc.		1.15%^		27.01%		12.95%		14.35%
Specialty	EQ/Invesco Global Real Assets - EIMG; Invesco Advisers, Inc.; Invesco Asset Management Ltd.		1.20%^		-12.22%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Janus Enterprise - EIMG; Janus Capital Management LLC		1.05%^		18.81%		16.77%		14.27%
Equity	EQ/JPMorgan Value Opportunities - EIMG; J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.		0.98%		11.09%		6.23%		11.39%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Core Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Capital International, Inc.; GQG Partners LLC.; Vaugh Nelson Investment Management		0.91%		16.36%		12.27%		13.63%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Growth Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.73%		37.36%		22.03%		20.08%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Growth Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; HS Management Partners, LLC; Loomis Sayles & Company, L.P.; Polen Capital Management, LLC; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		0.86%		31.99%		19.65%		18.48%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Value Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.75%		2.23%		5.39%		9.02%
Equity	EQ/Loomis Sayles Growth - EIMG; Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.		1.05%^		30.86%		18.60%		19.11%
Equity	EQ/MFS International Growth - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/ b/a MFS Investment Management		1.10%^		15.41%		10.01%		12.38%
Equity	EQ/MFS International Intrinsic Value - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.15%^		20.03%		—		—
Equity	EQ/MFS Mid Cap Focused Growth - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.10%^		29.76%		—		—
Specialty	EQ/MFS Technology - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.13%		46.83%		—		—
Specialty	EQ/MFS Utilities Series - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.05%^		5.55%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Mid Cap Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.72%		12.84%		7.71%		11.59%
Equity	EQ/Mid Cap Value Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Diamond Hill Capital Management, Inc.; Wellington Management Company, LLP		0.97%		4.99%		4.83%		8.77%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Moderate Allocation* - EIMG		1.08%		11.27%		6.98%		7.45%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Moderate Plus Allocation* - EIMG		1.12%		14.13%		8.47%		9.48%
Money Market	EQ/Money Market** - EIMG; BNY Mellon Investment Advisers, Inc.		0.71%		0.20%		1.00%		0.68%
Equity	EQ/Morgan Stanley Small Cap Growth - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.		1.15%^		95.74%		35.80%		27.59%
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Global Real Return - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.98%^		10.33%		5.59%		5.97%
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Real Return - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.84%^		11.28%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Total Return - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.75%^		8.58%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Ultra Short Bond - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.80%^		1.17%		1.56%		1.70%
Equity	EQ/Small Company Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.64%		19.73%		9.95%		12.81%
Equity	EQ/T. Rowe Price Growth Stock - EIMG; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		1.00%^		36.57%		20.77%		18.94%
Specialty	EQ/T. Rowe Price Health Sciences - EIMG; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		1.20%^		26.91%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Value Equity - EIMG; Aristotle Capital Management, LLC		0.92%		2.81%		5.30%		8.29%
Equity	Multimanager Aggressive Equity - EIMG; 1832 Asset Management U.S. Inc.; AllianceBernstein L.P.; ClearBridge Investments, LLC; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.; Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P.		0.98%		38.82%		22.70%		20.02%
Specialty	Multimanager Technology - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.; Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC; Wellington Management Company, LLC		1.25%^		53.26%		29.30%		26.79%

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* EQ Managed Volatility Portfolios that include the EQ volatility management strategy as part of their investment objective and/or principal investment strategy, and the EQ/affiliated Fund of Fund Portfolios that invest in Portfolios that use the EQ volatility management strategy, are identified in the chart by a “†“. See “About the Portfolios of the Trusts” for more information regarding volatility management.

** The Portfolio operates as a “government money market fund.” The Portfolio will invest at least 99.5% of its total assets in U.S. government securities, cash, and/or repurchase agreements that are fully collateralized by U.S. government securities or cash.

^ This Portfolio’s annual expenses reflect temporary fee reductions.

Unaffiliated Variable Investment Options:

Type	Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub - Adviser(s), as applicable	Current   Expenses		Average Annual Total Returns     (as of 12/31/2020)
				1 year		5 year		10 year
Asset Allocation	American Funds Insurance Series® Asset Allocation Fund - Capital Research and Management CompanySM		0.80%		12.16%		10.31%		9.68%
Equity	American Funds Insurance Series® Global Small Capitalization Fund - Capital Research and Management CompanySM		1.24%		29.39%		14.15%		9.17%
Equity	American Funds Insurance Series® New World Fund® - Capital Research and Management CompanySM		1.09%^		23.29%		13.05%		6.28%
Asset Allocation	BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. - BlackRock Advisors, LLC		1.01%^		20.79%		9.17%		6.61%
Equity	ClearBridge Variable Mid Cap - Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC; ClearBridge Investments, LLC		1.10%		15.10%		10.33%		10.76%
Fixed Income	Delaware Ivy VIP High Income(1) - Delaware Management Company; Macquarie Investment Management Austria Kapitalanlage AG; Macquarie Investment Management Europe Limited; Macquarie Investment Management Global Limited		0.97%		6.03%		7.42%		6.52%
Equity	Delaware Ivy VIP Small Cap Growth(2) - Delaware Management Company; Macquarie Funds Management Hong Kong Limited; Macquarie Investment Management Global Limited		1.15%^		37.66%		15.59%		11.15%
Asset Allocation	Fidelity® VIP Asset Manager: Growth Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.94%		16.95%		9.82%		8.27%
Equity	Fidelity® VIP Growth & Income Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.79%		7.59%		11.34%		11.37%
Equity	Fidelity® VIP Mid Cap Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.87%		17.87%		10.79%		9.22%
Equity	Fidelity® VIP Value Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.92%		6.02%		9.13%		10.20%
Equity	Franklin Small Cap Value VIP Fund - Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC		0.93%		5.19%		10.77%		9.20%
Equity	Invesco V.I. Diversified Dividend Fund - Invesco Advisers, Inc.		0.96%		-0.13%		7.35%		9.71%
Asset Allocation	Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio - Janus Capital Management LLC		0.87%		14.03%		11.53%		9.95%
Fixed Income	Lord Abbett Bond Debenture Portfolio (VC) - Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC		0.91%		7.30%		7.41%		6.44%
Specialty	PIMCO CommodityRealReturn® Strategy Portfolio - Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		1.34%^		1.23%		2.54%		-5.49%
Equity	T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio II - T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		0.99%^		0.96%		9.59%		8.94%
Equity	Templeton Developing Markets VIP Fund - Templeton Asset Management Ltd.		1.44%		17.18%		15.57%		3.66%
Specialty	Templeton Global Bond VIP Fund - Franklin Advisers, Inc.		0.74%^		-5.28%		0.66%		1.56%
Specialty	VanEck VIP Global Resources Fund - Van Eck Associates Corporation		1.38%		18.83%		5.93%		-3.83%

^ This Portfolio’s annual expenses reflect temporary fee reductions.

⁽¹⁾  This is the variable investment option’s new name. The variable investment option’s former name is Ivy VIP High Income which may continue to be used in certain documents for a period of time after the date of this Prospectus.

⁽²⁾  This is the variable investment option’s new name. The variable investment option’s former name is Ivy VIP Small Cap Growth which may continue to be used in certain documents for a period of time after the date of this Prospectus.

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Appendix: Hypothetical illustrations

ILLUSTRATION OF DEATH BENEFITS, ACCOUNT VALUES, NET CASH SURRENDER VALUES AND ACCUMULATED PREMIUMS

The following tables illustrate the changes in death benefit, policy account value and net cash surrender value of the policy under certain hypothetical circumstances that we assume solely for this purpose. Each table illustrates the operation of a policy for a specified issue age, premium payment schedule and face amount under the standard death benefit. The tables assume annual planned periodic premiums that are paid at the beginning of each policy year for an insured person who is a 35-year-old preferred elite risk male non-tobacco user when the policy is issued. The amounts shown are for the end of each policy year and assume that all of the policy account value is invested in Portfolios that achieve investment returns at constant hypothetical gross annual rates of 0%, 6% and 12% (i.e., before any investment management fees or other expenses are deducted from the underlying Portfolio assets). These hypothetical investment return assumptions are not intended as estimates of future performance of any investment fund. The Company is not able to predict the future performance of the investment options. Higher rates of return used in these illustrations generally reflect rates of return for a number of broad stock indices over long-term periods. Of course lower rates of return will lower the values illustrated. For this reason, you should carefully consider the illustrations at 0% and 6%. After the deduction of the arithmetic average of the investment management fees and other expenses of all of the underlying Portfolios (as described below), the corresponding net annual rates of return would be [    ]%, [    ]% and [    ]%. These net annual rates of return do not reflect the mortality and expense risk charge, or other charges we deduct from your policy’s value each month. If the net annual rates of return did reflect these charges, the rates shown would be lower; however, the values shown in the following tables reflect all policy charges. Investment return reflects investment income and all realized and unrealized capital gains and losses.

The tables headed “Using Current Charges” assume that the current rates for the following charges deducted by the Company in each year illustrated: premium charge, administrative charge, cost of insurance charge, mortality and expense risk charge. The tables headed “Using Guaranteed Charges” are the same, except that the maximum permitted rates for all years are used for all charges. The tables do not reflect any charge that we reserve the right to make but are not currently making. The tables assume that (i) no optional rider benefits have been elected, (ii) no loans or withdrawals are made, and (iii) no changes in coverage are requested.

With respect to fees and expenses deducted from assets of the underlying Portfolios, the amounts shown in all tables reflect (1) investment management fees equivalent to an effective annual rate of 0.57%, and (2) an assumed average asset charge for all other expenses of the underlying Portfolios equivalent to an effective annual rate of [0.59]%. These rates are the arithmetic average for all Portfolios that are available as investment options. In other words, they are based on the hypothetical assumption that policy account values are allocated equally among the variable investment options. These rates do not reflect Investment Expense Reductions, or expense limitation arrangements in effect with respect to certain underlying Portfolios. If those reductions or arrangements had been assumed, the policy values would be higher than those shown in the following tables. The actual rates associated with any policy will vary depending upon the actual allocation of policy values among the investment options.

The second column of each table shows the amount you would have at the end of each policy year if an amount equal to the assumed planned periodic premiums were invested to earn interest, after taxes, at 5% annually. This is not a policy value. It is included for comparison purposes only.

Because your circumstances will no doubt differ from those in the illustrations that follow, values under your policy will differ, in most cases substantially. Upon request, we will furnish you with a personalized illustration as described under “Illustrations of policy benefits” in “Personalized illustrations” in this prospectus.

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Equitable Advantage^SM

$600,000 Face Amount

Male, Issue Age 35, Preferred Elite Non-Tobacco User Underwriting Risk Class

Standard Death Benefit

Initial Annual Planned Periodic Premium: $5,600*

Using Current Charges

		Death Benefit			Account Value			Net Cash Surrender Value
End of Policy Year	Premiums Accum. At 5% Interest Per Year	Assuming Hypothetical Gross Annual Investment Return of:			Assuming Hypothetical Gross Annual Investment Return of:			Assuming Hypothetical Gross Annual Investment Return of:
		0% Gross	6% Gross	12% Gross	0% Gross	6% Gross	12% Gross	0% Gross	6% Gross	12% Gross

* The illustrations assume that planned periodic premiums are paid at the start of each policy year. The death benefit, account value and net cash surrender value will differ if premiums are paid in different amounts or frequencies.

** Policy lapses unless additional payments are made.

The hypothetical investment results are illustrative only and should not be deemed a representation of past or future investment results. Actual investment results may be more or less than those shown and will depend on a number of factors, including investment allocations made by the owner. The death benefit, account value and net cash surrender value for a policy would be different from those shown if the actual gross rates of investment return averaged 0%, 6% or 12% over a period of years, but also fluctuated above or below the average for individual policy years. We can make no representation that these hypothetical investment results can be achieved for any one year or continued over any period of time. In fact, for any given period of time, the investment results could be negative.

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Equitable Advantage^SM

$600,000 Face Amount

Male, Issue Age 35, Preferred Elite Non-Tobacco User Underwriting Risk Class

Standard Death Benefit

Initial Annual Planned Periodic Premium: $5,600*

Using Guaranteed Charges

		Death Benefit			Account Value			Net Cash Surrender Value
End of Policy Year	Premiums Accum. At 5% Interest Per Year	Assuming Hypothetical Gross Annual Investment Return of:			Assuming Hypothetical Gross Annual Investment Return of:			Assuming Hypothetical Gross Annual Investment Return of:
		0% Gross	6% Gross	12% Gross	0% Gross	6% Gross	12% Gross	0% Gross	6% Gross	12% Gross

* The illustrations assume that planned periodic premiums are paid at the start of each policy year. The death benefit, account value and net cash surrender value will differ if premiums are paid in different amounts or frequencies.

** Policy lapses unless additional payments are made.

The hypothetical investment results are illustrative only and should not be deemed a representation of past or future investment results. Actual investment results may be more or less than those shown and will depend on a number of factors, including investment allocations made by the owner. The death benefit, account value and net cash surrender value for a policy would be different from those shown if the actual gross rates of investment return averaged 0%, 6% or 12% over a period of years, but also fluctuated above or below the average for individual policy years. We can make no representation that these hypothetical investment results can be achieved for any one year or continued over any period of time. In fact, for any given period of time, the investment results could be negative.

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Appendix: Calculating the death benefit

The following examples demonstrate how we calculate the standard death benefit. The examples show an insured under two policies with the same face amount, but account values vary as shown. We assume that each insured is age 65 at the time of death, is a male preferred non-tobacco user, and that there is no outstanding debt. Policy 1 shows what the death benefit would be for a policy with a low account value. Policy 2 shows what the death benefit would be for a policy with a higher account value.

The alternative death benefit is equal to the policy account value times a death benefit percentage which will be specified in your policy, and which varies based upon the insured’s attained age, sex and risk class. If the account value in your policy is high enough, relative to the face amount, the life insurance benefit will automatically be greater than the standard death benefit. In the example below, the alternative death benefit for Policy 1 is $50,400 ($35,000 x 144.0%) and the alternative death benefit for Policy 2 is $122,400 ($85,000 x 144.0%). The standard death benefit is equal to the face amount on ($100,000) the date of death. For the owner of Policy 1, the death benefit would equal the face amount, since the alternative death benefit amount ($50,400) is less than the face amount ($100,000). For the owner of Policy 2, the death benefit would be the alternative death benefit ($122,400), since the alternative death benefit ($122,400) is greater than the face amount ($100,000).

	Policy 1		Policy 2
Face Amount		$100,000		$100,000
Policy Account Value on the Date of Death		$  35,000		$  85,000
Death Benefit Percentage		144.0%		144.0%
Standard Death Benefit		$100,000		$100,000
Alternative Death Benefit		$50,400		$122,400
Death Benefit Paid		$100,000		$122,400

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Appendix: State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits

The following information is a summary of the states where certain policies or certain features and/or benefits are either not available as of the date of this prospectus or vary from the policy’s features and benefits as previously described in this prospectus. Certain features and/or benefits may have been approved in your state after your policy was issued and cannot be added. Please contact your financial professional for more information about availability in your state.

States where certain policies features and/or benefits are not available or vary:

State	Features and Benefits	Availability or Variation
Florida	See “Borrowing from your policy” in “Death benefits and accessing your money”	There is no minimum loan amount.
North Dakota	See “Suicide exclusion and misstatements”	All references to “two years” are changed to “one year.”

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Appendix: Examples of how the Policy Continuation Rider works

Below are examples of how the Policy Continuation Rider works and how minimum benefit requirements are met. The examples detail the key components during the year that a sample policy goes on policy continuation.

Example

For this sample policy, the policy was issued to a male non-smoker. The policy is not in grace period and is not now a Modified Endowment Contract, nor will it become one when the Policy Continuation Rider (PCR) is exercised.

Age	Yr		Mth		CVAT PCR Guaranteed Charges (Beginning of Month)		New Loan Taken		Policy Account Value End of Month		End of Month Loan Balance		Accrued Loan Interest		Net AV End of Month		End of Month Net Death Benefit		Total Face Amount
78		32		1	$	—		0	$	3,936,863	$	3,464,907	$	11,343	$	460,613	$	1,271,607	$	1,500,000
78		32		2	$	460,613		0	$	3,484,823	$	3,464,907	$	22,724	$	—	$	718,452	$	1,500,000
78		32		3	$	—		0	$	3,493,418	$	3,464,907	$	34,141	$	—	$	720,804	$	1,500,000
78		32		4	$	—		0	$	3,502,034	$	3,464,907	$	45,596	$	—	$	723,164	$	1,500,000
78		32		5	$	—		0	$	3,510,671	$	3,464,907	$	57,089	$	—	$	725,531	$	1,500,000
78		32		6	$	—		0	$	3,519,329	$	3,464,907	$	68,619	$	—	$	727,906	$	1,500,000
78		32		7	$	—		0	$	3,528,008	$	3,464,907	$	80,187	$	—	$	730,289	$	1,500,000
78		32		8	$	—		0	$	3,536,709	$	3,464,907	$	91,792	$	—	$	732,680	$	1,500,000
78		32		9	$	—		0	$	3,545,432	$	3,464,907	$	103,436	$	—	$	735,079	$	1,500,000
78		32		10	$	—		0	$	3,554,176	$	3,464,907	$	115,118	$	—	$	737,485	$	1,500,000
78		32		11	$	—		0	$	3,562,941	$	3,464,907	$	126,838	$	—	$	739,899	$	1,500,000
78		32		12	$	—		0	$	3,571,729	$	3,464,907	$	138,596	$	—	$	742,322	$	1,500,000

(a) The policy account value reflects a hypothetical annual crediting rate on loan collateral of 3%.

(b) The amounts in this column reflect the Accrued Loan Interest based on a hypothetical annual rate of 4%. The maximum rate is the greater of (a) 2% or (b) the “Monthly Average Corporate” yield published in Moody’s Corporate Bond Yield Averages for the month that ends two months before the interest rate is set. In Month 2 and all subsequent months, the amounts are calculated as follows:

The previous Accrued Loan Interest, plus the monthly loan interest rate (0.32737% which is equivalent to 4% annually), multiplied by the Loan Balance plus the previous Accrued Loan Interest. For example, the Accrued Loan Interest for Month 2 is calculated as follows: $11,343 + 0.32737% x ($3,464,907 + $11,343) = $22,724.

(c) The amounts in this column reflect the Net Death Benefit. The amounts are calculated as follows: The Death Benefit is the greatest of: (a) the Policy Account Value or the outstanding loan and accrued loan interest, whichever is greater, multiplied by a percentage shown in your policy for the insured person’s age (nearest birthday) at the beginning of each policy year, (b) the outstanding loan and accrued loan interest on the insured person’s date of death plus $10,000, or (c) the current base policy face amount. The Net Death Benefit is the Death Benefit less Loan Balance and the Accrued Loan Interest. Therefore, the Net Death Benefit for Month 2 is calculated as follows: [the greatest of: (a) [the maximum of ($3,484,823, $3,464,907 + $22,724)] x 120.6%; (b) ($3,464,907 + $22,724 + $10,000); (c) ($1,500,000)] less ($3,464,907 + $22,724). That is, [the greatest of [$4,206,082; $3,497,631; $1,500,000] – ($3,464,907 + $22,724) = $718,452.

The policy owner may exercise the Policy Continuation Rider at the beginning of the second month of this year because the following additional conditions are also satisfied:

(1) The policy owner is attained age 78, and the policy year is 32, meeting the minimum age (75) and duration (15 years) requirements;

(2) the loan balance and accrued loan interest ($3,464,907 + $11,343 = $3,476,250) exceeds the current policy face amount ($1,500,000);

(3) the loan balance and accrued loan interest ($3,464,907 + $11,343 = $3,476,250) equals or exceeds the Policy Account Value, multiplied by the applicable Policy Continuation Trigger Percentage (shown in the policy) ($3,936,863 x 80% = $3,149,490); and

(4) the Net Policy Account Value ($460,613) is sufficient to cover the Policy Continuation Benefit Charge, which equals the Policy Account Value times the Policy Continuation Benefit Charge rate of 11.70%, which is the rate for a policy in which the insured has attained age 78 ($3,936,863 x 11.70% = $460,613).

After the policy goes on policy continuation, future premium payments, partial withdrawals and requested policy changes are not allowed (See “Effect of Policy Continuation” above). The policy, however, does not lapse and continues in force during the illustrated year and in all subsequent years. Loan interest continues to be due on each policy anniversary, and if not paid when due, is added to the outstanding loan.

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Requesting more information

The Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”), dated August 20, 2021, is incorporated into this prospectus by reference and is available upon request, free of charge, by calling our toll free number at 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.) and requesting to speak with a customer service representative. You may also request one by writing to our operations center at P.O. Box 1047, Charlotte, NC 28201-1047. The SAI includes additional information about the registrant. You can make inquiries about your policy and request personalized illustrations by calling our toll free number at 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.), or asking your financial professional.

You may visit the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov to view the SAI and other information (including other parts of a registration statement) that relates to Equitable America Variable Account K and the policies. Copies of this information may be obtained, upon payment of a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following email address: publicinfo@sec.gov.

C000229054 #838063

Equitable Advantage^SM

Summary Prospectus for New Investors

August 20, 2021

An individual flexible premium variable and index-linked life insurance policy issued by Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America (the “Company”, “we”, “our” and “us”), formerly MONY Life Insurance Company of America with variable investment options offered under the Company’s Variable Account K. Variable and indexed-linked life insurance policies are complex investment vehicles and you should speak with a financial professional about policy features, benefits, risks and fees and whether the policy is appropriate for you based on your financial situation and objectives.

This summary prospectus summarizes key features of the policy (the “Summary Prospectus”). Before you invest, you should also review the prospectus for the policy, which contains more information about the policy’s features, benefits, and risks (the “Prospectus”). You can find this document and other information about the policy online at www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162725. You can also obtain this information at no cost by calling 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.) or by sending an email request to life-service@equitable.com.

You may cancel your policy within 10 days of receiving it without paying fees or penalties. In some states, this cancellation period may be longer. In most states, we will refund the policy account value calculated, plus any charges that were deducted from premiums that were paid and from the policy account value, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. In other states, we will refund the premiums that were paid, less any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest. You should review the prospectus, or consult with your investment professional, for additional information about the specific cancellation terms that apply.

The policy provides life insurance coverage, plus the opportunity for you to earn a return in (i) our guaranteed interest option, (ii) an investment option we refer to as the Market Stabilizer Option^®, if available, which is described in the separate Market Stabilizer Option® prospectus and/or (iii) one or more variable investment options set forth in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to the Prospectus. The MSO gives you the opportunity to earn interest that we will credit based in part on the performance of the S&P 500 Price Return Index, excluding dividends, over approximately a one year period, although you could also experience a negative return and a significant loss of principal and previously credited interest. See MSO prospectus for more information. If you did not receive an MSO prospectus and wish to obtain one, please call us at 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.).

Additional general information about certain investment products, including variable life insurance contracts, has been prepared by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s staff and is available at Investor.gov.

Electronic delivery of shareholder reports (pursuant to Rule 30e-3). Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the shareholder reports for portfolio companies available under your policy will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports from the Company or from your financial intermediary. Instead, the reports will be made available on a website, and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a website link to access the report.

If you already elected to receive shareholder reports electronically, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may elect to receive shareholder reports and other communications electronically from the Company by calling 1-800-777-6510 or by calling your financial intermediary.

You may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. You can inform the Company that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports by calling 1-877-522-5035, by sending an email request to EquitableFunds@dfinsolutions.com, or by calling your financial intermediary. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all portfolio companies available under your contract.

Table of Contents

Important Information You Should Consider About the Policy	3
Overview of the Policy	6
Brief Description of the Policy	6
Premiums	6
Contract Features	6
Standard Death Benefits Under the Policy	8
Other Benefits Available Under the Policy	10
Buying the Policy	12
How Your Policy Can Lapse	13
Making Withdrawals: Accessing the Money in Your Policy	14
Making Withdrawals From Your Policy	14
Surrendering Your Policy for its Net Cash Surrender Value	14
Additional Information About Fees	15
Appendix: Investment options available under the policy	18
Back Cover Page	21

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FEES AND EXPENSES
Charges for Early Withdrawals	We will not deduct a charge for making a partial withdrawal from your policy, however, if you surrender the policy in its first 10 years, you’ll be subject to a surrender charge of up to 5.59% of face amount. For example, if you surrender your policy in the first year and the policy face amount was $100,000, you could pay a surrender charge of up to $5,587. There is also an MSO Early Distribution Adjustment on amounts withdrawn before segment maturity which could result in a 90% loss of Segment Account Value. See MSO prospectus for more information. For more information on the impacts of withdrawals, please refer to “Making withdrawals from your policy” in the Prospectus. For more information on surrender charges, please refer to “Deducting policy charges” in the Prospectus.
Transaction Charges	In addition to certain surrender charges, you may be subject to other transaction charges, including charges on each premium paid under the policy, charges in connection with requests to decrease your policy’s face amount, transfer fees, and other special service charges (e.g., wire transfer charges, express mail charges, policy illustration charges, duplicate policy charges, policy history charges, and charges for returned payments). For more information on transaction charges, please refer to the “Fee Table” in the Prospectus.
Ongoing Fees and Expenses (annual charges)	In addition to surrender charges and transaction charges, an investment in the policy is subject to certain ongoing fees and expenses, including fees and expenses covering the cost of insurance under the policy, administration and and mortality risks, MSO and loan charges, and the cost of optional benefits available under the policy. Such fees and expenses may be based on characteristics of the insured (e.g., age, sex, risk class and particular health, occupational or vocational risks). You should view the information pages of your policy for rates applicable to your policy. You will also bear expenses associated with the variable investment options (the “Portfolios”) under the policy, as shown in the following table:
	Annual Fee	Minimum	Maximum
	Portfolios	0.58%	3.01%
	Portfolio expenses are for the year ended December 31, 2020 and may be based, in part, on estimated amounts of such expenses and may change from year to year. For more information on ongoing fees and expenses, please refer to the “Fee Table” and Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” in the Prospectus.
	The Investment Expense Reduction may apply to the calculation of daily unit values of the variable investment options. The Investment Expense Reduction is described in further detail in “More information about policy charges” in the Prospectus.
RISKS
Risk of Loss	You may lose money by investing in the policy.
Not a Short-Term Investment	The policy is not a short-term investment and is not appropriate for an investor who needs ready access to cash. The policy is designed to provide benefits on a long-term basis. Consequently, you should not use the policy as a short-term investment or savings vehicle. Because of the long-term nature of the policy, you should consider whether purchasing the policy is consistent with the purpose for which it is being considered.
Risks Associated with Investment Options	An investment in the policy is subject to the risk of poor investment performance and can vary depending on the performance of the Portfolios and the MSO and the guaranteed investment option (GIO) available under the policy, each of which has its own unique risks. For more information, see the MSO prospectus and the “Guaranteed Interest Option” section in “Investment options within your policy” in the Prospectus. You should review the Portfolios’ prospectuses before making an investment decision. Portfolio prospectuses are available at www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162725. For more information on the Portfolios, please refer to Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” in the Prospectus.

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Insurance Company Risks	An investment in the policy is subject to the risks related to the Company. Any policy obligations (including under the fixed rate option and under the MSO), guarantees, or benefits are subject to the claims-paying ability of the Company. More information about the Company, including its financial strength ratings, is available at https://equitable.com/selling-life-insurance/financial-strength-ratings. More information about the Company’s general account can be found in “About our general account” in the Prospectus.
Policy Lapse	Death benefits will not be paid if the policy has lapsed. Your policy may lapse due to insufficient premium payments, poor investment performance, withdrawals, unpaid loans or loan interest, your policy account value will not cover policy charges. If your policy is in default, you will be notified in writing and given an opportunity to make an additional payment to keep your policy in force and prevent it from lapsing. The grace period you have to make said additional payment will be 61 days long. If your policy lapses, you will be notified in writing and you may be able make additional payments to restore your policy’s benefits. In this case, additional requirements must also be met to restore your policy. If your policy provides for a no-lapse guarantee, you may have to pay more premiums to have the benefits of the no-lapse guarantee. If your policy provides for a policy continuation feature, and the conditions of the Rider are satisfied, including that there is sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge, then the policy will not lapse. For more information on how to prevent your policy from lapsing, please refer to “The minimum amount of premiums you must pay” and “You can guarantee that your policy will not terminate before a certain date” in the Prospectus.
RESTRICTIONS
Investments	You may allocate your premiums to any of the Portfolios set forth in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” or to the GIO or the MSO of the Prospectus. We reserve the right to remove or substitute Portfolios as investment options under the policy. Currently, the total of all transfers of variable investment options you make on the same day must be at least $500; except that you may transfer your entire balance in a single Portfolio, even if it is less than $500. We may limit transfers you can make into the GIO, if the current (non-guaranteed) interest crediting rate on the GIO is equal to the guaranteed minimum interest crediting rate of 1.0% (annual rate). For more information, please refer to “Guaranteed Interest Option” in “Investment options within your policy” in the Prospectus. There may be restrictions upon transfers into and out of the MSO. For more information, see the MSO prospectus. We allow only one request for transfers each day (although that request can cover multiple transfers). Only written transfer requests submitted to our Administrative Office may be processed for policies that are jointly owned or assigned. We reserve the right to limit policy transfers if we determine that you are engaged in a disruptive transfer activity, such as “market timing.” For more information, please refer to “Variable investment options” and “Transfers you can make” in the Prospectus.
Optional Benefits	As a policy owner, you may be able to obtain extra benefits, which may require additional charges. These optional benefits are described in what is known as a “rider” to the policy. Optional benefits are subject to additional charges and payments made under these benefits are generally subject to the same transaction fees as other premium payments but may be treated differently for other purposes (e.g., certain death benefit minimums). Optional benefits are not available for all ages (or may terminate at certain ages) and underwriting classifications. We may stop offering an optional benefit at any time. For more information on optional benefits and other limitations under the policy, please refer to “Other benefits you can add by rider,” “Nonforfeiture Benefit” and “Suicide and certain misstatements” in the Prospectus.

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TAXES
Tax Implications	You should consult with a tax professional to determine the tax implications of an investment in and payments received under the policy. There is no additional tax benefit to the investor if the policy is purchased through a tax-qualified plan or individual retirement account (IRA). Withdrawals will be subject to ordinary income tax, and may be subject to tax penalties.
	For more information on tax implications relating to policy investments, please refer to “Tax information” in the Prospectus.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Investment Professional Compensation	Some financial professionals may receive compensation for selling the policy to you, both in the form of commissions or in the form of contribution-based compensation. Financial professionals may also receive additional compensation for enhanced marketing opportunities and other services (commonly referred to as “marketing allowances”). This conflict of interest may influence the financial professional to recommend this policy over another investment. For more information on investment professional compensation, please refer to “Distribution of the policies” in the Prospectus.
Exchanges	Some investment professionals may have a financial incentive to offer you a new policy in place of the one you already own. You should only exchange your policy if you determine, after comparing the features, fees, and risks of both policies, that it is preferable to purchase the new policy, rather than continue to own your current policy. For more information on exchanges, please refer to the paragraph titled “Section 1035 exchanges of policies with outstanding loans” under “How you can pay for and contribute to your policy” in the Prospectus, as well as the section titled “Future policy changes” in the Prospectus.

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Overview of the Policy

The following summaries provide a brief overview of the more significant aspects of the policy. We provide more complete and detailed information in the subsequent sections of this summary prospectus, the policy’s prospectus and statement of additional information, and the policy contract.

Brief Description of the Policy

The policy is a form of variable life insurance, the primary purpose of which is to provide a death benefit which is paid upon the death of the insured person. The policy provides life insurance coverage, plus the opportunity for you to earn a return in (i) our guaranteed interest option, (ii) an investment option we refer to as the Market Stabilizer Option^®(“MSO”), if available, which is described in a separate prospectus and/or (iii) one or more of the Portfolios, which are listed in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to the Prospectus. The policy may be appropriate if you have a long-term investment horizon and is not intended for short-term investment, and is therefore not appropriate for people who may need to make early or frequent withdrawals or who intend to engage in frequent trading. You have considerable flexibility to tailor the policy to meet your needs.

Some policy forms, features and/or riders described in this summary prospectus may be subject to state variations or may not be available in all states. See Appendix: “State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits” in the Prospectus for state availability and a description of all material variations to features and riders that differ from the description contained in the Prospectus. Some policy forms, features, and/or Portfolios described in this summary prospectus may not be available through all brokers. The form number for this policy is ICC21-21-100. A state and/or other code may follow the form number. Your policy’s form number is located in the lower left hand corner of the first page of your policy.

Premiums

The policy offers flexibility in paying premiums. With certain exceptions, you choose the timing and the amount of premium payments. Payment of insufficient premiums may result in a lapse of the policy.

A policy must satisfy the cash value accumulation test to qualify as a life insurance contract for tax purposes under Section 7702 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”).

If at any time your policy account value is high enough that the alternative higher death benefit would apply, we reserve the right to limit the amount of any premiums that you pay, unless the insured person provides us with evidence of insurability satisfactory to us.

You can allocate your policy’s value to the Portfolios, to the guaranteed interest option or to the MSO, if available. The available Portfolios are listed in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy” to this summary prospectus. The guaranteed interest option pays a fixed rate of interest that we declare periodically with a 1.0% minimum. The MSO rider, if available under your policy, provides you with the opportunity to earn interest that we will credit based in part on the performance of the S&P 500 Price Return Index subject to the possibility of negative returns and significant loss of principal and previously credited interest. Different procedures and additional restrictions on withdrawals, loans, surrender and right to cancel apply to the MSO. For additional information see the MSO prospectus.

Contract Features

Standard Death Benefit — If the insured dies, we pay a life insurance benefit to the “beneficiary” you have named.

The death benefit is the policy’s face amount on the date of the insured’s death. The amount of this death benefit doesn’t change over time, unless you take any action that changes the policy’s face amount.

There is also an alternative higher death benefit paid in certain circumstances. For additional detail regarding the calculation and payment of death benefits, refer to “Death benefits and accessing your money” in the Prospectus.

Loans — You may borrow money from your policy, subject to certain limitations. Interest charges will apply.

Withdrawals — Subject to certain conditions, you may withdraw a part of your policy’s cash surrender value without surrendering the policy.

Surrendering the Policy — A policy may be surrendered for its net cash surrender value while the insured is living. Surrender charges and/or tax penalties may apply.

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Riders — You may be able to obtain extra fixed benefits under the policy, which may require additional charges. These optional insurance benefits are referenced herein as “riders” to the policy.

You may be eligible for the following riders:

• Charitable Legacy Rider: An optional rider may be elected at issue that provides an additional death benefit of 1% of the base policy face amount to the qualified charitable organization(s) chosen by the policy owner at no additional cost.

• Living Benefits Rider: This feature enables you to receive a portion (generally the lesser of 75% or $250,000) of the policy’s death benefit (excluding death benefits payable under certain other policy riders), if the insured person has a terminal illness (as defined in the rider). We make no additional charge for the rider, but we will deduct a one-time administrative charge of up to $250 from any living benefit we pay. This rider will automatically be included at issue if you apply for a face amount of at least $100,000. There will be a $100 administrative charge if this rider is not added at issue.

• No-Lapse Guarantee Rider: This rider provides you with a guarantee against policy termination for a specific period of time. This rider is automatically added to policies.

• Policy Continuation Rider: Your policy offers an additional feature against policy termination due to an outstanding loan if the criteria for the Rider are satisfied, called “policy continuation.” If this rider is exercised, there is a one-time charge. See “Policy Continuation Charge” in the Prospectus. This rider is automatically included in your policy.

Depending on when your policy was purchased, certain variations may apply which differ from the information contained in this section. In addition, depending on where your policy was issued, certain features or benefits may not be available or vary from the policy’s features and benefits described in this summary prospectus. Please see Appendix: “State policy availability and/or variations of certain features and benefits” in the Prospectus for more information.

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Standard Death Benefits Under the Policy

As long as your incontestable policy is in force, we will pay the death benefit to your beneficiary or beneficiaries once we receive at our Administrative Office satisfactory proof of the Insured’s death. The death benefit is determined as of the date of death and generally paid within 7 days after proof of death and any other required documents are received.

Commencement of insurance coverage. You must give the full minimum initial premium to your financial professional on or before the day the policy and all amendments are delivered to you. No insurance under your policy will take effect unless (1) the insured person is still living at the time such payment and all delivery requirements are completed and (2) the information in the application continues to be true and complete, without material change, as of the date the policy and all amendments are delivered to you and all delivery requirements have been completed and the full minimum initial premium is paid.

Your policy’s face amount. In your application to buy a policy, you tell us how much insurance coverage you want on the life of the insured person. We call this the “face amount” of the base policy. Generally, $100,000 is the minimum amount of coverage you can request. If you have elected the Charitable Legacy Rider, the minimum face amount is $1 million.

If the insured person dies, we pay a life insurance benefit to the “beneficiary” you have named once we have received satisfactory proof of the insured’s death at our Administrative Office.

Your policy’s “death benefit”.

The policy’s face amount on the date of the insured person’s death. The amount of this death benefit doesn’t change over time, unless you take any action that changes the policy face amount.

Alternative higher death benefit in certain cases. Your policy is designed to always provide a minimum level of insurance protection relative to your policy account value, in part to meet the Code’s definition of “life insurance.”

We will automatically pay an alternative death benefit if it is higher than the standard death benefit.

The alternative death benefit is computed by multiplying your policy account value on the insured person’s date of death by a percentage specified in your policy. At ages greater than 99, this percentage is equal to 101%. At ages less than 100, this percentage is equal to the reciprocal of the net single premium per dollar of insurance calculated using the prevailing interest rate and mortality charges based upon the 2017 Commissioner’s Standard Ordinary Mortality Tables, and varies based upon the insured person’s age, sex and risk class.

The death benefit is designed to be greater than the amount necessary to ensure that the policy’s cash surrender value does not at any time exceed the net single premium needed to fund future policy benefits under the contract, with all such terms as defined in section 7702 of the Code. Refer to the Prospectus for additional information on how alternative death benefits are calculated.

Each policy owner receives an annual statement showing various policy values. The annual statement shows the death benefit amount as of the policy anniversary, and that amount would reflect the alternative higher death benefit amount, if applicable at that time. This annual statement also reflects the monthly cost of insurance charge for the policy year, reflecting a higher net amount at risk in those months when the higher alternative death benefit is in effect.

Other adjustments to death benefit. We will increase the death benefit proceeds by the amount of any other benefits we owe upon the insured person’s death under any optional riders which are in effect.

We will reduce the death benefit proceeds by the amount of any outstanding policy loan and unpaid loan interest, as well as any amount of monthly charges under the policy that remain unpaid because the insured person died during a grace period. We also reduce the death benefit if we have already paid part of it under a Living Benefits Rider. We reduce it by the amount of the living benefits payment plus interest. Refer to “Your option to receive a terminal illness living benefit under the Living Benefits Rider” in the Prospectus.

Death benefit if your policy is on policy continuation. Your policy offers an additional feature against policy termination due to an outstanding loan, called “policy continuation.” Availability of this feature is subject to certain terms and conditions, including that you have had your policy in force for at least 15 years. If your policy is on policy continuation, the death benefit payable under the policy will be determined differently. For more information on policy continuation, see “Policy Continuation Rider” under “More information about policy features and benefits” in the Prospectus.

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Standard Death Benefits Under the Policy

Beneficiary of death benefit. You designate your policy’s beneficiary in your policy application. You can change the beneficiary at any other time during the insured person’s life. If no beneficiary is living when the insured person dies, we will pay the death benefit proceeds in equal shares to the insured person’s surviving children. If there are no surviving children, we will instead pay the insured person’s estate.

Payment of death benefit. We will pay any death benefit in a single sum. If the beneficiary is a natural person (i.e., not an entity such as a corporation) and so elects, death benefit proceeds can be paid through the “Access Account”, which is a draft account that works in certain respects like an interest-bearing checking account. Additional information on the Access Account can be found in “Payment of death benefit” in the Prospectus.

You can decrease your insurance coverage

You may request a decrease in your policy’s face amount any time after the second year of your policy but before the policy year in which the insured person reaches age 121. The requested decrease must be at least $10,000. Please refer to “Tax information” for certain possible tax consequences and limitations of changing the face amount of your policy.

We can refuse or limit any requested decrease. We will not approve any decrease if your policy is in a grace period.

Certain policy changes, including decreases in your insurance coverage, may also affect the guarantee premiums under the policy.

The following additional conditions also apply:

Face amount decreases.  You may not reduce the face amount below the minimum stated in your policy. Nor will we permit a decrease that would cause your policy to fail the Internal Revenue Code’s definition of life insurance. Guarantee premiums, as well as our monthly deductions for the cost of insurance coverage, will generally decrease from the time you reduce the face amount.

If you reduce the face amount during the first 10 years of your policy, we will deduct all or part of the remaining surrender charge from your policy account value. Assuming you have not previously changed the face amount, the amount of the surrender charge we will deduct will be determined by dividing the amount of the decrease by the initial face amount and multiplying that fraction by the total amount of surrender charge that still remains applicable to your policy. We deduct the charge from the same investment options as if it were part of a regular monthly deduction under your policy.

In some cases, we may have to make a distribution to you from your policy at the time we decrease your policy’s face amount. This may be necessary in order to preserve your policy’s status as life insurance under the Internal Revenue Code. We may also be required to make such distribution to you in the future on account of a prior decrease in face amount. The distribution may be taxable.

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Other Benefits Available Under the Policy

In addition to the standard death benefit(s) associated with your policy, other standard and/or optional benefits may also be available to you. The following table summarizes information about those benefits. Information about the fees associated with each benefit included in the table may be found in the “Fee Table” in this summary prospectus.

Name of Benefit	Purpose	Is Benefit Standard or Optional	Brief Description of Restrictions/Limitation
Charitable Legacy Rider	Provides an additional death benefit of 1% of the base policy face amount to the qualified charitable organization(s) chosen by the policy owner.	Optional	•  Only available at issue, and an accredited charitable beneficiary must be named at that time. •  Available for base policy face amounts of $1 million and above, where the minimum benefit would be $10,000 and the maximum benefit would be $100,000 (i.e., for face amounts of $10 million and above). •  If the base policy face amount is reduced after issue for any reason, the benefit will be payable on the face amount at the time of the insured’s death, provided the face amount is at least $1 million. •  If the base policy face amount has been decreased below $1 million at the time of death, then no benefit is payable.
Living Benefits Rider	Enables you to receive a portion of the policy’s death benefit (with certain exclusions), if the insured person has a terminal illness.	Optional	•  May be elected either at policy issue or after policy issue. If elected after issue, we will deduct $100 from your policy account value at the time of the transaction. •  Subject to underwriting guidelines and state availability, your policy will automatically include this rider if you apply for a face amount of at least $100,000. •  The maximum aggregate amount of payments that will be paid under this rider for all policies issued by the Company or an affiliate company on the life of the same insured person is $500,000.
No-Lapse Guarantee Rider	Generally guarantees that your policy will not terminate for a number of years.	Standard	•  Subject to the payment of certain specified amounts of premiums. •  Rider will not prevent the policy from entering a grace period if the amount of your outstanding policy loans and accrued loan interest is greater than your policy account value. •  Subject to certain conditions, provides a guarantee against policy lapse for 15 years.

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Name of Benefit	Purpose	Is Benefit Standard or Optional	Brief Description of Restrictions/Limitation
Policy Continuation Rider	Protects against the lapse of your policy in certain circumstances.	Optional	•  You can exercise the rider and be placed on “policy continuation,” if at the beginning of any policy month on or following the policy anniversary nearest the insured person’s 75th birthday, but not earlier than the 15th policy anniversary, all of the following conditions apply: •   The amount of any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest equals or exceed the policy account value multiplied by the Policy Continuation Trigger Percentage as provided in your policy; •   There must be sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge; •   The policy must not be a Modified Endowment Contract as defined in section 7702A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exercising the rider must not cause the policy to become a Modified Endowment Contract. •   The amount of any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest is greater than the current base policy face amount; •   The policy is not in a grace period; and •   No current or future distributions will be required to be paid from the policy to maintain its qualification as “life insurance” under the Internal Revenue Code.

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Other Benefits Available Under the Policy

Buying the Policy

Premium payments. We call the amounts you contribute to your policy “premiums” or “premium payments.” The amount we require as your first premium varies depending on the specifics of your policy and the insured person. Each subsequent premium payment must be at least $50, although we can increase this minimum if we give you advance notice. Otherwise, with a few exceptions mentioned below, you can make premium payments at any time and in any amount.

For information on the commencement of insurance coverage, please see “Policy issuance” under “More information about procedures that apply to your policy” in the Prospectus.

Section  1035 exchanges of policies with outstanding loans. If we approve, you may purchase a policy through an assignment and exchange of another life insurance policy with a cash surrender value pursuant to a valid exchange under Section 1035 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). If such other policy is subject to a policy loan, we may permit you to carry over all or a portion of such loan to the policy, subject to our administrative rules then in effect. In this case, we will treat any cash paid, plus any loaned amount carried over to the policy, as premium received in consideration of our issuing the policy. If we allow you to carry over all or a portion of any such outstanding loan, then we will hold amounts securing such loan in the same manner as the collateral for any other policy loan, and your policy also will be subject to all our other rules regarding loans (refer to “Borrowing from your policy” in the Prospectus).

You can generally pay premiums at such times and in such amounts as you like before the policy anniversary nearest to the insured’s 121st birthday, so long as you don’t exceed certain limits determined by the federal income tax laws applicable to life insurance.

The cash value accumulation test and limits on premium payments. This policy must satisfy the cash value accumulation test to qualify as a life insurance for tax purposes under Section 7702 of the Code.

If your premium payments exceed certain other amounts specified under the Code, your policy will become a “modified endowment contract,” which may subject you to additional taxes and penalties on any distributions from your policy. See “Tax information” in the Prospectus. We may return any premium payments that would cause your policy to become a modified endowment contract if we have not received a satisfactory modified endowment contract acknowledgment from you.

You can ask your financial professional to provide you with an illustration of policy benefits that shows you the amount of premiums you can pay, based on various assumptions, without exceeding applicable tax law limits. The tax law limits can change as a result of certain changes you make to your policy. For example, a reduction in the face amount of your policy may reduce the amount of premiums that you can pay and may impact whether your policy is a modified endowment contract.

You should discuss possible limitations on policy premiums with your financial professional and tax advisor before purchasing the policy.

Planned periodic premiums. Page 3 of your policy will specify a “planned periodic premium.” This is the amount that you request us to bill you. However, payment of these or any other specific amounts of premiums is not mandatory. You need to pay only the amount of premiums (if any) necessary to keep your policy from lapsing and terminating as discussed below.

Additional premium payments to prevent lapse. Your policy may lapse due to insufficient premium payments, poor investment performance, withdrawals, unpaid loans or loan interest, your policy account value will not cover policy charges. If your policy is in default, you will be notified in writing and given an opportunity to make additional payments to keep your policy in force. You will have a 61-day grace period to pay at least an amount prescribed in your policy which would be enough to keep your policy in force for approximately three months (without regard to investment performance). If we do not receive your payment by the end of the grace period, your policy (and all riders to the policy) will terminate without value and all coverage under your policy will cease. We will mail an additional notice to you if your policy terminates.

If the insured person dies during a grace period, we will pay the death benefit, less any overdue charges (but not more than the guarantee premium amount required to keep the no-lapse guarantee in effect), policy loans or liens and accrued loan or lien interest, to the beneficiary you have named. Additional information about the grace period is contained in “The minimum amount of premiums you must pay” in “Payment of premiums and determining your policy’s value” in the Prospectus.

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How Your Policy Can Lapse

Policy “lapse” and termination. Your policy will lapse (also referred to in your policy as “default”) if your “net policy account value” is not enough to pay your policy’s monthly charges due to insufficient premium payments, poor investment performance, withdrawals, policy charges, unpaid loans or loan interest, when due unless:

• you have paid sufficient premiums to keep the no-lapse guarantee in effect, the no-lapse guarantee is still in effect and any outstanding loan and accrued loan interest does not exceed the policy account value (refer to “You can guarantee that your policy will not terminate before a certain date” in the Prospectus); or

• you satisfy the requirements of the Policy Continuation Rider including that there is sufficient net policy account value to cover the Policy Continuation Charge (see “Policy Continuation Rider” in “Other benefits available under the policy”).

We will mail a notice to you at your last known address if your policy is in default. You will have a 61-day grace period to pay at least an amount prescribed in your policy which would be enough to keep your policy in force for approximately three months (without regard to investment performance). You may not make any transfers or request any other policy changes during a grace period. If we receive the requested amount before the end of the grace period, it will be treated as a loan repayment to the extent it is less than or equal to any outstanding policy loan and accrued loan interest. The remainder of the payment, if any, will be treated as a premium payment. If your policy account value is still insufficient to cover total monthly deductions, we will send a written notice that a new 61-day grace period has begun and request an additional payment. If we do not receive your payment by the end of the grace period, your policy (and all riders to the policy) will terminate without value and all coverage under your policy will cease. We will mail an additional notice to you if your policy terminates.

If the insured person dies during a grace period, we will pay the death benefit, less any overdue charges (but not more than the guarantee premium amount required to keep the no-lapse guarantee in effect), policy loans or liens and accrued loan or lien interest, to the beneficiary you have named.

Your policy will terminate if you don’t pay enough premiums (i) to pay the charges we deduct, or (ii) to maintain the no-lapse guarantee that can keep your policy from terminating. However, we will first send you a notice and give you the opportunity to pay any shortfall.

You may owe taxes if your policy terminates while you have a loan outstanding, even though you receive no additional money from your policy at that time. Refer to “Tax information” in the Prospectus.

Restoring a terminated policy. To have your policy “restored” (put back in force), you must apply within three years after the date of termination. You must also (i) present evidence of insurability satisfactory to us and (ii) pay at least the amount of premium that we require. The amount of payment will not be more than an amount sufficient to cover total monthly deductions for 3 months, calculated from the effective date of restoration, and the premium charge. We will determine the amount of this required payment as if no interest or investment performance were credited to or charged against your policy account. Your policy contains additional information about the minimum amount of this premium and about the values and terms of the policy after it is restored and the effective date of such restoration. You may only restore your policy if it has terminated without value. You may not restore a policy that was given up for its net cash surrender value. Any no-lapse guarantee also terminates and cannot be restored after the policy terminates.

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Buying the Policy

Making Withdrawals: Accessing the Money in Your Policy

Making Withdrawals From Your Policy

You may make a partial withdrawal of your net cash surrender value at any time after the first year of your policy and before the policy anniversary nearest to the insured’s attained age 121, provided the policy is not on policy continuation. The request must be for at least $500, however, and we have discretion to decline any request. If you do not tell us from which investment options you wish us to take the withdrawal, we will use the same allocation that then applies for the monthly deductions we make for charges; and, if that is not possible, we will take the withdrawal from all of your investment options in proportion to your value in each. We will not deduct a charge for making a partial withdrawal.

You can withdraw all or part of your policy’s net cash surrender value, although you may incur tax consequences by doing so.

Effect of partial withdrawals on insurance coverage. A partial withdrawal will result in a reduction in the cash surrender value and in your policy account value equal to the amount withdrawn as well as a reduction in your death benefit.

The death benefit after the withdrawal will be determined as described in this summary prospectus, based on the policy account value and the base policy face amount after the withdrawal.

A partial withdrawal reduces the amount of your premium payments that counts toward maintaining the no-lapse guarantee. A partial withdrawal may increase the chance that your policy could lapse because of insufficient value to pay policy charges as they fall due or failure to pass the guarantee premium test for the no-lapse guarantee. There will be no proportionate surrender charge due to a decrease in base policy face amount resulting from a partial withdrawal.

We will not permit a partial withdrawal that would reduce the face amount below the minimum stated in your policy, or that would cause the policy to no longer be treated as life insurance for federal income tax purposes.

Refer to “Tax information” in the Prospectus for information about possible tax consequences of partial withdrawals and any associated reduction in policy benefits.

Surrendering Your Policy for its Net Cash Surrender Value

Upon written request satisfactory to us, you can surrender (give us back) your policy for its “net cash surrender value” at any time. The net cash surrender value equals your policy account value, minus any outstanding loan and unpaid loan interest, minus any amount of your policy account value that is “restricted” as a result of previously distributed terminal illness living benefits, and minus any surrender charge that then remains applicable. The surrender charge is described in “Charges and expenses you will pay” in the Prospectus.

Refer to “Tax information” in the Prospectus for the possible tax consequences of surrendering your policy.

Date of Transaction

Policy loans, partial withdrawals and surrenders occur as of the date we receive your request in complete and proper form and are generally payable within 7 days of receipt. See “More information about procedures that apply to your policy” in the Prospectus for more information.

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Additional Information About Fees

The following tables describe the fees and expenses that you will pay when buying, owning, and surrendering or making withdrawals from the policy. Please refer to your policy’s information pages for information about the specific fees you will pay each year based on the options you have elected.

The first table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay at the time that you buy the policy, surrender or make withdrawals from the policy, or transfer cash value between Portfolios.

Transaction Fees
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
Premium charge	Upon each premium payment	5% of each premium(1)
Surrender (turning in) of your policy during its first 10 years(2)	Upon surrender	6% of each premium(3), not to exceed an amount per $1,000 of initial base policy face amount Highest: $55.87 Lowest: $20.63
Charge for a Representative Investor (male age 35 at issue in the preferred elite non-tobacco user risk class)	Upon surrender	Representative: $28.26
Request a decrease in your policy’s face amount during its first 10 years(2)	Effective date of the decrease	A pro rata portion of the charge that would apply to a full surrender at the time of the decrease.
MSO Early Distribution Adjustment	On surrender or other distribution (including loan) from an MSO Segment prior to its Segment Maturity Date	90% of Segment Account Value(4)
Transfer Fees	Upon transfer	$25 per transfer(5)
Special Services Charges •  Wire Transfer Charge(6) •  Express Mail Charge(6) •  Policy Illustration Charge(7) •  Duplicate Policy Charge(8) •  Policy History Charge(8)(9) •  Charge for Returned Payments(8)	At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction At the time of the transaction	Charge: $90 Charge: $35 Maximum Charge: $25 Charge: $35 Maximum Charge: $50 Charge: $25

(1) Currently, we reduce this charge to 4% in year 1 after an amount equal to one sales load “target premium” has been paid. In years 2+, this charge is 4% for all premium paid. The “target premium” is actuarially determined for each policy, based on that policy’s specific characteristics, including the policy’s face amount, among other factors.

(2) This charge varies based on individual characteristics of the insured, and may not be representative of the charge that you will pay. In particular, the initial amount of the surrender charge depends on each insured’s specific characteristics. Your financial professional can provide you with more information about these charges as they relate to the insured’s particular characteristics. See “Deducting policy charges” under “More information about policy charges” in the policy prospectus.

(3) The surrender charge percentage of premium we use is determined by the policy year in which you surrender your contract to receive its cash value, or reduce the face amount of your policy as provided in the following table:

Table of Premium Based Surrender Charges
Policy Year of Premium Payment	Policy Year of Surrender
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11 +
1	6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
2		6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
3			6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%
4				6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%	0%
5					6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%	0%
6						6%	5%	4%	3%	2%	0%
7							6%	5%	4%	3%	0%
8+								0%	0%	0%	0%

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(4) The actual amount of Early Distribution Adjustment is determined by a formula that depends on, among other things, how a specified widely published stock market index has performed since the Segment Start Date. The maximum amount of the adjustment would occur if there is a total distribution at a time when that index had declined to zero. Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for more information about the index and Early Distribution Adjustment.

(5) No charge, however, will ever apply to a transfer of all of your variable investment option amounts to our guaranteed interest option, or to any transfer pursuant to our automatic transfer service or asset rebalancing service as discussed in the policy prospectus. Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for more information about transfer charges.

(6) Unless you specify otherwise, this charge will be deducted from the amount you request.

(7) We do not currently charge for this fee, but reserve the right to in the future.

(8) The charge for this service must be paid using funds outside of your policy. Please see “Deducting policy charges” under “More Information about policy charges” in the policy prospectus for more information.

(9) The charge for this service may be less depending on the policy history you request. Please see “Deducting policy charges” under “More Information about policy charges” in the policy prospectus for more information.

The next table describes the fees and expenses that you will pay periodically during the time that you own the policy, not including Portfolio fees and expenses.

Periodic Charges Other Than Annual Portfolio Company Expenses
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
Base Contract Charge:
Administrative Expenses(1)(2)	Monthly	(1)	Policy         Amount Year           Deducted
			1                 $15 2+               $10
		plus
		(2)	Charge per $1,000 of the initial base policy face amount Highest: $1.60 Lowest: $0.33
Charge for Representative Investor (guaranteed rate for a male age 35 at issue in the preferred elite non-tobacco user risk class)	Monthly		Representative: $0.37
Cost of Insurance(1)(2)(3): Minimum and Maximum Charge	Monthly	Charge per $1,000 of the amount for which we are at risk:(4) Highest: $83.34 Lowest: $0.03
Charge for a Representative Investor (male age 35 at issue; preferred elite non-tobacco user risk class)	Monthly	Representative: $0.12
Mortality and Expense Risk Fees	Monthly		Annual % of your       value in our variable       investment options       and the MSO (if       applicable)(5)
		Policy Year
		1-10	1.00%
		11+	0.50%
Loan Interest Spread(6)	On each policy anniversary (or on loan termination, if earlier)	1% of loan amount.
Optional Benefit Charges:
Charitable Legacy Rider	N/A	No additional charge.
Market Stabilizer Option® (MSO)(7)
MSO Variable Index Segment Account Charge	At the beginning of each policy month during the MSO Segment Term	1.65% calculated as an annual % of your Segment Account Value(8)

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Periodic Charges Other Than Annual Portfolio Company Expenses
Charge	When Charge is Deducted	Amount Deducted
MSO loan spread(9) for Amounts of Policy Loans Allocated to MSO Segment	On each policy anniversary (or on loan termination, if earlier)	5%
Policy Continuation Rider	Once - on the date the rider is exercised.	The charge is equal to the policy account value on the date of exercise, multiplied by the Policy Continuation Charge Rate: Maximum rate: 13.10%(10)
Adding Living Benefits Rider	Once - on the date the rider is exercised	$100 (if elected after policy issue)
Exercising Living Benefits Rider	At the time of the transaction	$250

(1) This charge varies based on individual characteristics of the insured, and may not be representative of the charge that you will pay. Your financial professional can provide you with more information about these charges as they relate to the insured’s particular characteristics. See “Deducting policy charges” under “More information about policy charges” in the policy prospectus.

(2) Not applicable after the insured person reaches age 121.

(3) Insured persons who present particular health, occupational or vocational risks may be charged other additional charges as specified in their policies.

(4) Our amount “at risk” is the difference between the amount of death benefit and the policy account value as of the deduction date.

(5) For more information about the MSO, please refer to the separate MSO prospectus.

(6) We charge interest on policy loans but credit you with interest on the amount of the policy account value we hold as collateral for the loan. The rate is the greater of (a) 2.0% or (b) the “Monthly Average Corporate” yield published by Moody’s Corporate Bond Yield Averages for the month that ends two months before the interest rate is set. The loan interest spread is the excess of the interest rate we charge over the interest rate we credit, which will not exceed 1%. For more information on the maximum rate see “Borrowing from your policy — Loan interest we charge” in “Accessing your money” in the policy prospectus.

(7) Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for information about the MSO and related charges and deductions, as well as the meaning of special terms that are relevant to the MSO (such as “Segment,” “Segment Term,” “Segment Start Date,” “Segment Account Value” and “Early Distribution Adjustment”).

(8) Currently we deduct this charge at a 0.40% annual rate, rather than at the maximum rate shown.

(9) We charge interest on policy loans but credit you with interest on the amount of the policy account value we hold as collateral for the loan. The “spread” is the difference between the interest rate we charge you on a policy loan and the interest rate we credit to you on the amount of your policy account value that we hold as collateral for the loan. Please refer to the MSO Prospectus for more information.

(10) This is the maximum rate for an insured person who has attained age 75. The rate declines each year based on attained age.

The next item shows the minimum and maximum total operating expenses charged by the Portfolios that you may pay periodically during the time that you own the Policy. A complete list of Portfolios available under the Policy, including their annual expenses, may be found in Appendix: “Investment options available under the policy”.

Annual Portfolio Company Expenses	Minimum	Maximum
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses before the effect of Expense Limitation Arrangements (expenses that are deducted from Portfolio asset, including management fees, distribution and/or service (12b-1) fee, and other expenses)(1)	0.58%	3.01%
Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses after the effect of Expense Limitation Arrangements(1)	0.55%	1.65%

(1) “Total Annual Portfolio Operating Expenses” are for the year ended December 31, 2020 and may be based, in part, on estimated amounts of such expenses. Pursuant to a contract, Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC has agreed to make payments or waive its management, administrative and other fees to limit the expenses of certain affiliated Portfolios through April 30, 2022 (“Expense Limitation Arrangement”) (unless the Trust’s Board of Trustees consents to an earlier revision or termination of this agreement). The Expense Limitation Arrangement may be terminated by Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC at any time after April 30, 2022. The Expense Limitation Arrangement does not apply to unaffiliated Portfolios.

Investment Expense Reduction Applied to the Calculation of Daily Unit Values

We will apply an expense reduction in the calculation of the daily unit values of each variable investment option of our separate account (the “Investment Expense Reduction”). More information on the Investment Expense Reduction is provided in “More information about policy charges” in the Prospectus.

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Appendix: Investment options available under the policy

The following is a list of variable investment options available under the policy. More information about the variable investment options is available in the prospectuses for the Investment Options, which may be amended from time to time and can be found online at www.equitable.com/ICSR#EQH162725. You can request this information at no cost by calling 1-877-522-5035 or by sending an email request to EquitableFunds@dfinsolutions.com.

The current expenses and performance information below reflects fees and expenses of the variable investment options, but do not reflect the other fees and expenses that your policy may charge. Expenses would be higher and performance would be lower if these charges were included. Each variable investment option’s past performance is not necessarily an indication of future performance.

Affiliated Variable Investment Options:

Type	Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub-Adviser(s), as applicable			Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/2020)
		Current   Expenses		1 year		5 year		10 year
Specialty	1290 VT Convertible Securities - Equitable Investment Management Group, LLC (“EIMG”); SSgA Funds Management, Inc.		0.90%^		39.08%		18.19%		15.22%
Asset Allocation	1290 VT DoubleLine Dynamic Allocation - EIMG; DoubleLine Capital LP		1.20%^		13.10%		8.61%		8.80%
Fixed Income	1290 VT DoubleLine Opportunistic Bond - EIMG; DoubleLine Capital LP		0.95%^		4.26%		3.76%		4.01%
Equity	1290 VT Equity Income - EIMG; Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss LLC		0.95%^		-4.52%		1.55%		6.50%
Specialty	1290 VT GAMCO Mergers & Acquisitions - EIMG; GAMCO Asset Management, Inc.		1.30%^		-1.33%		0.66%		3.12%
Equity	1290 VT GAMCO Small Company Value - EIMG; GAMCO Asset Management, Inc.		1.07%		9.51%		4.48%		10.29%
Equity	1290 VT Low Volatility Global Equity - EIMG		0.91%^		-1.33%		4.51%		7.99%
Specialty	1290 VT Multi-Alternative Strategies - EIMG		1.65%^		4.54%		2.61%		—
Specialty	1290 VT Natural Resources - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.90%^		-15.65%		-6.96%		3.17%
Specialty	1290 VT Real Estate - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.90%^		-8.98%		1.57%		3.86%
Equity	1290 VT Small Cap Value - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Horizon Kinetics Asset Management, LLC		1.15%^		-1.51%		3.15%		8.99%
Equity	1290 VT SmartBeta Equity - EIMG; AXA Rosenberg Investment Management, LLC		1.10%^		10.95%		9.78%		11.26%
Equity	1290 VT Socially Responsible - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC		0.93%		20.01%		14.33%		14.62%
Equity	EQ/AB Small Cap Growth - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.92%		36.05%		17.01%		17.21%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Aggressive Allocation* - EIMG		1.16%		15.41%		9.45%		11.17%
Asset Allocation	EQ/All Asset Growth Allocation - EIMG		1.25%		12.29%		7.33%		9.44%
Equity	EQ/American Century Mid Cap Value - EIMG; American Century Investment Management, Inc.		1.00%^		1.32%		—		—
Equity	EQ/ClearBridge Large Cap Growth - EIMG; ClearBridge Investment, LLC		1.00%^		30.85%		19.85%		16.87%
Equity	EQ/Common Stock Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.68%^		19.76%		13.68%		14.61%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Conservative Allocation* - EIMG		1.00%^		7.35%		4.90%		4.51%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Conservative Plus Allocation* - EIMG		1.09%		9.96%		6.33%		6.51%
Fixed Income	EQ/Core Bond Index - EIMG; SSgA Funds Management, Inc.		0.65%^		6.09%		4.17%		3.06%
Equity	EQ/Emerging Markets Equity PLUS - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.; EARNST Partners, LLC		1.29%^		14.10%		4.53%		10.91%
Equity	EQ/Equity 500 Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.55%^		17.76%		13.53%		14.52%
Equity	EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends - EIMG; Franklin Advisers, Inc.		0.87%^		16.19%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/Franklin Strategic Income - EIMG; Franklin Advisers, Inc.		0.93%^		4.99%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Goldman Sachs Mid Cap Value - EIMG; Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.		1.09%^		8.46%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/Intermediate Government Bond - EIMG; SSGA Funds Management, Inc.		0.65%^		4.34%		3.08%		2.00%

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Type	Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub-Adviser(s), as applicable			Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/2020)
		Current   Expenses		1 year		5 year		10 year
Equity	EQ/International Core Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; EARNST Partners, LLC; Federated Global Investment Management Corp.; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.06%		8.45%		4.18%		7.44%
Equity	EQ/International Equity Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.79%^		3.89%		2.47%		6.26%
Equity	EQ/International Value Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Harris Associates L.P.		1.06%		4.20%		2.18%		5.81%
Equity	EQ/Invesco Comstock - EIMG; Invesco Advisers, Inc.		1.00%^		-0.77%		2.81%		8.52%
Equity	EQ/Invesco Global - EIMG; Invesco Advisers, Inc.		1.15%^		27.01%		12.95%		14.35%
Specialty	EQ/Invesco Global Real Assets - EIMG; Invesco Advisers, Inc.; Invesco Asset Management Ltd.		1.20%^		-12.22%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Janus Enterprise - EIMG; Janus Capital Management LLC		1.05%^		18.81%		16.77%		14.27%
Equity	EQ/JPMorgan Value Opportunities - EIMG; J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.		0.98%		11.09%		6.23%		11.39%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Core Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Capital International, Inc.; GQG Partners LLC.; Vaugh Nelson Investment Management		0.91%		16.36%		12.27%		13.63%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Growth Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.73%		37.36%		22.03%		20.08%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Growth Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; HS Management Partners, LLC; Loomis Sayles & Company, L.P.; Polen Capital Management, LLC; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		0.86%		31.99%		19.65%		18.48%
Equity	EQ/Large Cap Value Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.75%		2.23%		5.39%		9.02%
Equity	EQ/Loomis Sayles Growth - EIMG; Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.		1.05%^		30.86%		18.60%		19.11%
Equity	EQ/MFS International Growth - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/ b/a MFS Investment Management		1.10%^		15.41%		10.01%		12.38%
Equity	EQ/MFS International Intrinsic Value - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.15%^		20.03%		—		—
Equity	EQ/MFS Mid Cap Focused Growth - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.10%^		29.76%		—		—
Specialty	EQ/MFS Technology - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.13%		46.83%		—		—
Specialty	EQ/MFS Utilities Series - EIMG; Massachusetts Financial Services Company d/b/a MFS Investment Management		1.05%^		5.55%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Mid Cap Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.72%		12.84%		7.71%		11.59%
Equity	EQ/Mid Cap Value Managed Volatility* - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Diamond Hill Capital Management, Inc.; Wellington Management Company, LLP		0.97%		4.99%		4.83%		8.77%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Moderate Allocation* - EIMG		1.08%		11.27%		6.98%		7.45%
Asset Allocation	EQ/Moderate Plus Allocation* - EIMG		1.12%		14.13%		8.47%		9.48%
Money Market	EQ/Money Market** - EIMG; BNY Mellon Investment Advisers, Inc.		0.71%		0.20%		1.00%		0.68%
Equity	EQ/Morgan Stanley Small Cap Growth - EIMG; BlackRock Investment Management, LLC; Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.		1.15%^		95.74%		35.80%		27.59%
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Global Real Return - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.98%^		10.33%		5.59%		5.97%
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Real Return - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.84%^		11.28%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Total Return - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.75%^		8.58%		—		—
Fixed Income	EQ/PIMCO Ultra Short Bond - EIMG; Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		0.80%^		1.17%		1.56%		1.70%
Equity	EQ/Small Company Index - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.		0.64%		19.73%		9.95%		12.81%
Equity	EQ/T. Rowe Price Growth Stock - EIMG; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		1.00%^		36.57%		20.77%		18.94%
Specialty	EQ/T. Rowe Price Health Sciences - EIMG; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		1.20%^		26.91%		—		—
Equity	EQ/Value Equity - EIMG; Aristotle Capital Management, LLC		0.92%		2.81%		5.30%		8.29%
Equity	Multimanager Aggressive Equity - EIMG; 1832 Asset Management U.S. Inc.; AllianceBernstein L.P.; ClearBridge Investments, LLC; T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.; Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P.		0.98%		38.82%		22.70%		20.02%

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Type	Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub-Adviser(s), as applicable			Average Annual Total Returns (as of 12/31/2020)
		Current   Expenses		1 year		5 year		10 year
Specialty	Multimanager Technology - EIMG; AllianceBernstein L.P.; Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC; Wellington Management Company, LLC		1.25%^		53.26%		29.30%		26.79%

* EQ Managed Volatility Portfolios that include the EQ volatility management strategy as part of their investment objective and/or principal investment strategy, and the EQ/affiliated Fund of Fund Portfolios that invest in Portfolios that use the EQ volatility management strategy, are identified in the chart by a “†“. See “About the Portfolios of the Trusts” for more information regarding volatility management.

** The Portfolio operates as a “government money market fund.” The Portfolio will invest at least 99.5% of its total assets in U.S. government securities, cash, and/or repurchase agreements that are fully collateralized by U.S. government securities or cash.

^ This Portfolio’s annual expenses reflect temporary fee reductions.

Unaffiliated Variable Investment Options:

Type	Portfolio Company - Investment Adviser; Sub - Adviser(s), as applicable	Current   Expenses		Average Annual Total Returns     (as of 12/31/2020)
				1 year		5 year		10 year
Asset Allocation	American Funds Insurance Series® Asset Allocation Fund - Capital Research and Management CompanySM		0.80%		12.16%		10.31%		9.68%
Equity	American Funds Insurance Series® Global Small Capitalization Fund - Capital Research and Management CompanySM		1.24%		29.39%		14.15%		9.17%
Equity	American Funds Insurance Series® New World Fund® - Capital Research and Management CompanySM		1.09%^		23.29%		13.05%		6.28%
Asset Allocation	BlackRock Global Allocation V.I. - BlackRock Advisors, LLC		1.01%^		20.79%		9.17%		6.61%
Equity	ClearBridge Variable Mid Cap - Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC; ClearBridge Investments, LLC		1.10%		15.10%		10.33%		10.76%
Fixed Income	Delaware Ivy VIP High Income(1) - Delaware Management Company; Macquarie Investment Management Austria Kapitalanlage AG; Macquarie Investment Management Europe Limited; Macquarie Investment Management Global Limited		0.97%		6.03%		7.42%		6.52%
Equity	Delaware Ivy VIP Small Cap Growth(2) - Delaware Management Company; Macquarie Funds Management Hong Kong Limited; Macquarie Investment Management Global Limited		1.15%^		37.66%		15.59%		11.15%
Asset Allocation	Fidelity® VIP Asset Manager: Growth Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.94%		16.95%		9.82%		8.27%
Equity	Fidelity® VIP Growth & Income Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)	��	0.79%		7.59%		11.34%		11.37%
Equity	Fidelity® VIP Mid Cap Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.87%		17.87%		10.79%		9.22%
Equity	Fidelity® VIP Value Portfolio - Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR)		0.92%		6.02%		9.13%		10.20%
Equity	Franklin Small Cap Value VIP Fund - Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC		0.93%		5.19%		10.77%		9.20%
Equity	Invesco V.I. Diversified Dividend Fund - Invesco Advisers, Inc.		0.96%		-0.13%		7.35%		9.71%
Asset Allocation	Janus Henderson Balanced Portfolio - Janus Capital Management LLC		0.87%		14.03%		11.53%		9.95%
Fixed Income	Lord Abbett Bond Debenture Portfolio (VC) - Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC		0.91%		7.30%		7.41%		6.44%
Specialty	PIMCO CommodityRealReturn® Strategy Portfolio - Pacific Investment Management Company LLC		1.34%^		1.23%		2.54%		-5.49%
Equity	T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio II - T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.		0.99%^		0.96%		9.59%		8.94%
Equity	Templeton Developing Markets VIP Fund - Templeton Asset Management Ltd.		1.44%		17.18%		15.57%		3.66%
Specialty	Templeton Global Bond VIP Fund - Franklin Advisers, Inc.		0.74%^		-5.28%		0.66%		1.56%
Specialty	VanEck VIP Global Resources Fund - Van Eck Associates Corporation		1.38%		18.83%		5.93%		-3.83%

^ This Portfolio’s annual expenses reflect temporary fee reductions.

⁽¹⁾  This is the variable investment option’s new name. The variable investment option’s former name is Ivy VIP High Income which may continue to be used in certain documents for a period of time after the date of this Prospectus.

⁽²⁾  This is the variable investment option’s new name. The variable investment option’s former name is Ivy VIP Small Cap Growth which may continue to be used in certain documents for a period of time after the date of this Prospectus.

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Equitable Advantage^SM

Issued by

Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America

525 Washington Boulevard

Jersey City, NJ 07310

(212) 554-1234

We have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Prospectus and a Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) dated August 20, 2021 that include additional information about the policy, the Company and Variable Account K. The Prospectus and SAI are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus. The Prospectus and SAI are available free of charge. To request a copy of either document, to ask about your contract, or to make other investor inquiries, please call 1-800-777-6510 (for U.S. residents) or 1-704-341-7000 (outside of the U.S.). The Prospectus and SAI are also available at our website, www.equitable.com.

SEC Contract Identifier: C000229054

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