{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
{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
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
Today I want to introduce our 3-part video series called, Retirement Risks. These videos go into depth on some of the planning that we think is critically important for generating a sustainable retirement income that you can enjoy for the rest of your life. I hope you find these videos useful. Retirement Risks Part
Life insurance is protected, unlike most other assets. Let’s compare – if I had a policy that had a $200,000 cash value in it, versus if I had $200,000 in a bank account in my name. Those two assets, depending upon the state that I live in, could be treated very differently. A creditor might
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
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,
Today I want to introduce you to a kind of graphic illustration of how whole life insurance works. It’s kind of a somewhat misunderstood product by many advisors out there and it really has some tremendously good features and attributes. I have three illustrations I wanted to introduce to everybody today. The first one shows the
Today, most people are saving money for college, using 529 plans. 529 plans have some nice tax benefits and some great advantages. These plans have become the most popular way people save money for college. Today we want to introduce to you an alternate way to save for college. Though 529 plans have potential growth
