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June 26, 1998
Dear Strategic Group Variable Universal Life Policyowner:
The information below supplements Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's
Strategic Group Variable Universal Life Prospectus dated May 1, 1998. Please
place this supplement with your Prospectus, and retain it for future reference.
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STRATEGIC GROUP VARIABLE UNIVERSAL LIFE
Supplement dated June 26, 1998
to the Prospectus dated May 1, 1998
The Strategic Group Variable Universal Life Prospectus is amended as follows:
1. The following paragraph is added after the last sentence in the first
paragraph of the "Commissions Schedule" provision on page 34:
If a selling broker, agent or General Agent produces $1,000,000 of excess
premium from the sale of a Strategic Group Variable Universal Life
Insurance Policy during any calendar year, MassMutual will pay that
selling broker, agent or General Agent additional compensation equal to 1%
of the excess premium received during that calendar year in which the
production goal was met. Excess premium is defined as premium received in
excess of the Policy's Modal Term Premium.
June 26, 1998
