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Blog #31 – The Infinite Banking Concept and Financial Independence
You can become financially independent if you have sufficient personal wealth to live indefinitely without having to work actively for basic necessities.
Blog #30 – How Our Client Solved His Retirement Problem
A couple of years ago, a long-time client called and said he wanted to talk to us about his retirement. The problem was that he was sixty-four years old and had nothing saved for his retirement. Since we had known him for many years, we knew that during the prior ten years he had ridden … Read more
Blog #29 – Modified Endowment Contract: Should You Be Concerned?
Anyone who has any type of banking policy has probably come across the term Modified Endowment Contract, or MEC. You may have noticed a portion of your whole life policy illustration or contract stipulating whether or not it is a MEC. You may have even seen numbers indicating the additional amount of Paid-Up Additions that … Read more
Blog #28 – Position Your Assets To Maximize Retirement Income
Traditional financial planning pays much more attention to accumulating assets for retirement than to the reposition and distribution of assets during retirement. It is not surprising since most financial advisors are compensated based on the amount of assets under management. Let us be clear; the reason for savings/investing is to generate future passive income when … Read more
Blog #27 – How Do We Generate Passive Income?
As you are probably aware, traditional financial planning tells you of three sources from which you could generate passive income when you could no longer generate active income for yourself: 1) a pension or defined benefit plan, 2) social security and 3) a defined contribution plan (a 401(k), 403(b) or IRA). Since the late 1970s, Wall Street and … Read more
Blog #26 – Banking Policies and Policy Loans
Although there are different ways to handle policy loans from your banking policies, the process described below provides you greater control and better tracking at tax preparation time from those loans that might have tax implications. You should follow these steps when taking out a policy loan from a banking policy: Contact us and let … Read more
Blog #25 – What’s Wrong With Qualified Plans? Practically Everything
If you make contributions to any type of qualified plans like a 401(k), a 403(b), or an IRA you should know the following facts: These programs are not tax-free but tax-deferred, which means that although you enjoy the immediate gratification of not paying taxes now, you will be most likely paying higher taxes on a … Read more
Blog #24 – Why Whole Life As a Savings Vehicle Makes Sense
The money stored in your properly-structured whole life insurance contract is guaranteed to grow every year by an increasing amount; in other words, the increase in cash value between years 3 and 4 is larger than the increase between years 2 and 3. So your cash value cannot go down; it is always increasing and … Read more
Blog #23 – Savings vs. Investing: Can You Afford The Risk
When you save your money, you have access to all or part of it at any time without penalties, it is not subject to losses, and if saved in the appropriate financial instrument, it grows continuously over time. When you invest your money, you may have to pay penalties and/or taxes to access it at … Read more
Blog #22 – Never Fall From The Compounding Curve
The following quote is attributed to Albert Einstein: “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.” Understanding the power of compound interest is key to increasing your wealth. To represent graphically how compound interest works, take a piece of paper and … Read more
Blog #21 – Building Wealth The Way Bankers Do
If you need money to invest, where will the money come from? It will almost always come from your savings account. So why can’t it come from your Banking Policy? It can! Let’s see how you can profit from it. Assume that your brother, who doesn’t have a good credit score, asks you for a … Read more
Blog #20 – A Banking Policy-An Amazing Financial System
Margaret Thatcher once said: “The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money”. As a result of Socialist policies, we are experiencing the worst economic conditions for America’s Middle Class since the 1960s. With high unemployment and underemployment, unfair taxation, and increasing Government intervention in our lives, how can the … Read more
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