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Blog #12 – Whole Life and Paid-up Additions
When purchasing a whole life insurance policy, even if it is not going to be used for banking purposes, be sure that a substantial amount of paid-up additions is included in your policy. There are two main reasons for our advice. The paid-up additions increase the efficiency of your policy in the sense that you … Read more
Blog #11 – Paid Up Additions Are Awesome
Yes, they are, but let me give some introduction before explaining why Paid-Up Additions are so great. A properly-designed Infinite Banking Concept (IBC) or banking policy originally maximizes the cash value that you obtain for a given premium while the death benefit eventually increases to be higher than in a traditionally-designed policy. This type of … Read more
Blog #10 – Every Business Owner Is Plagued By Wealth Transfers
First of all, let me explain what wealth transfers are. This is money that is being spent and can never be recovered. The major wealth transfers are: • Taxes • Interest paid to others • Investment losses Here is how a Dentist, one of our Infinite Banking clients, dealt with these wealth transfers through the use of his … Read more
Blog #9 – Comparing an IBC Policy to a 401-k Plan
Since 401-k plans are the most common option for Americans to accumulate funds for retirement, I would like to compare them to an IBC policy on four key elements. A) Taking a loan. When you take a loan from a 401-k plan, it involves liquidating assets from your plan and therefore, you will immediately stop … Read more
Blog #8 – Why Dave Ramsey Is Wrong About Whole Life Insurance
By: Dr. Robert P. Murphy Radio talk show host Dave Ramsey has made a national name for himself guiding people out of debt. I occasionally listen to his show (Ramsey and I both live in Nashville), and I applaud much of what he tells his listeners. In particular, Ramsey stresses the importance of having a … Read more
Blog #7 – Guaranteed Access To Credit Through Your Banking Policy
As we all know, capital purchases are unavoidable expenses and we define capital purchases as those that we cannot accommodate through our weekly or monthly cash flow. A typical capital purchase may be a car, a college education, a wedding, or an exotic vacation.One of the greatest living benefits of a properly-designed IBC or banking … Read more
Blog #6 – Tax-Free Retirement Income
A traditionally-designed whole life policy originally maximizes the death benefit that you obtain for a given premium while the cash value is originally very small or non-existent. This type of design is encouraged by most insurance agents and broker-dealers because it generates better commissions for them, but it doesn’t do much for you as a … Read more
Blog #5 – Money Velocity
By: L. Carlos Lara Becoming Your Own Banker, by author R. Nelson Nash is an extraordinary book. And yet, it’s not actually a book as much as it is a book-let. A mere one hundred and seven pages in its entirety, it dispenses wisdom and logic of a kind that only an individual who has … Read more
Blog #4 – Direct Recognition and Non-Direct Recognition Insurance Companies
The terminology of direct recognition and non-direct recognition refers to the method that the insurance company uses in treating dividends when there is an outstanding policy loan. As we explained in a previous blog, when you take a policy loan, you are borrowing against your cash value, using it as collateral for your loan. The … Read more
Blog #3 – Why IBC Works
By: Dr. Robert Murphy When people first hear about the advantages of the Infinite Banking Concept (IBC), a typical reaction is to say, “That’s too good to be true.”For example, the IBC agent might tell his or her client that in order to take out a loan against the cash values in a whole life … Read more
Blog #2 – Whole Life Policy Loans: How They Work
One of the best “living benefits” of a whole life policy is the ability to borrow against its cash value. As the cash value accumulates, you can access from 85 to 90% of it in the form of policy loans at any time, for any reason, with no questions asked. The reasons to obtain policy … Read more
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