{3:12 minutes to read} Today I want to talk about qualified plan accounts as an approach to purchasing life insurance as part of your retirement plan. Qualified plans include: 401(k); Profit-sharing; Money purchase; and Defined benefit plans. As people get older and accumulate wealth, these qualified plan accounts could potentially represent a very attractive way for
{1:20 minutes to read} Many people are trying to manage life insurance policies, whether they’re policies on their own life, or policies in a trust for which they are a trustee. You have to make the best policy decisions. The analogy that we like to use is one that involves people in a bathtub. The
{2:12 minutes to read} Some of our clients have expressed a desire to make one payment into a cash value life insurance policy and be guaranteed paid-up. For them, we have a concept called the Single Payment Plan. Putting one payment into a cash value life insurance policy is a preferred way to fund a
Sometimes when we look at things one way, we see the world with a certain landscape, but when we revisit it, we may see it very differently because of our experiences and perspective. I want to urge you to read the following article which is called "Nine Reasons You Should Take Another Look at Whole
One idea that we would like to share with the advisors we work with is a concept that many people have found to be worthwhile. We call it, Gift Of A Lifetime or GOAL. Gift of a Lifetime is a concept that you can share with clients who may be parents or grandparents on how
The world of long-term health care continues to rapidly evolve as people are living longer and longer, and retirees face challenges regarding how best to protect their wealth from the cost of long-term care. Many insurance companies are leaving the long-term care business, where traditional products are risky for their capital. Less and less of
For years, everybody asked me if I watched the TV show Breaking Bad, which I had not. Finally, I broke down, bought Netflix, and started watching the show. After a couple of episodes, I became aware of a theme that popped out at me; part of the reason the main character becomes a drug dealer
Over $200,000,000 of life insurance was sold recently to a billionaire in Silicon Valley. This is a record-setting life insurance policy. Prior to this, David Geffen was the person who bought the most amount of life insurance in 1990. It was a $100,000,000 policy. Click here to read a good article that talks about this
Our website explains why you should have whole life insurance. As a high-net-worth individual, you can be very good at developing a high return on your portfolio of investments, properties and business interests. You probably have a definite need for life insurance, but you don’t have the liquidity, or are reluctant to dip into your
Bathtub Test During a visit to my doctor, I asked him, “How do you determine whether or not an older person should be put in a nursing Home?” “Well,” he said, “we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the person ~ to empty the bathtub.” “Oh,
