Wow! $42.3 Billion, according to Bankrate; that is what 3 banks, JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, collected in fees during one year, $6 billion of those fees coming solely from ATM and overdraft fees alone.[i]  Of course, these are the same banks that we taxpayers bailed out in October of 2008 to the …

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When purchasing participating whole life insurance, many want to see the premium “disappear” as soon as possible. And if you have a limited source of funding to pay the premiums with, like an inheritance, a bonus, the sale of personal property, a settlement, or lottery winnings, it might make sense to have the premium “disappear” …

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Several years back, when giving a presentation for Nelson Nash’s Think Tank in Birmingham Alabama, I shared with the advisers and agents gathered there, that the Infinite Banking Concept wasn’t as much about the product, participating whole life insurance, as it was about the process. You see, even at that time, many advisers and agents …

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In a participating whole life insurance policy, the “Face Value” of the policy is the dollar value of the benefit that will be paid should the insured die while the policy is still in force. Part of the face value consists of paid-up insurance, which is insurance that is actually owned by the policyholder. The …

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Whole Life Insurance is the original permanent life insurance product that builds cash value.  Before whole life insurance existed, life insurance was something that was leased on a yearly basis and every year the lease payment, or premium, increased because the risk that the insurance company would have to pay out a death benefit became …

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According to the most recent Marist poll,[i] the most annoying phrase for Americans, for the ninth straight year in a row, is “whatever.”  Evidently “Que Sera, Sera, whatever will be, will be,’ is simply annoying to over one-third of the nation.[ii]  Yet, according to the Economic Policy Institute “Nearly half of American families have a …

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Recently an opportunity to review a participating whole life insurance policy which had been in force for 11- years came across our desk for a complimentary review.  The policy had been underwritten by a respected company that is known for good policies that can develop high guaranteed cash values as well as great dividends.  But …

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Advocating the ability to leverage your life insurance policy for needed cash flow or investment capital has become a common approach for the life insurance industry to promote and sell higher premium life insurance products.  Whether those products be some form of universal life or high cash value whole life, the novelty that you can …

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There are some really sordid tales about how Indexed Universal Life Insurance (IUL) is compared to Participating Whole Life Insurance (PWLI) as being almost her identical sister, merely because they can develop such high cash values and both have certain guarantees. But the poignant chronicles of those who have owned, and survived owning, an IUL …

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Nearly 12 years ago, when first looking into participating whole life insurance as a financial asset and tool to manage my own investments, it was difficult to find any information on what participating whole life insurance was. It was even more difficult to locate any life insurance companies that still sold participating whole life insurance …

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