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Why don’t more Financial Advisors Sell Life Insurance?
Why don’t more Financial Advisors Sell Life Insurance?

The holiday season now firmly has its grip around many of us and since we opted not to produce an end of the year podcast that answered questions we receive from various readers and listeners, I figured I’d entertain a question that came up recently...

Posted: Dec 20, 2018

Questions About Dividends, Direct Recognition, and IRA Liquidation to Fund Whole Life Insurance
Questions About Dividends, Direct Recognition, and IRA Liquidation to Fund Whole Life Insurance

The post Questions About Dividends, Direct Recognition, and IRA Liquidation to Fund Whole Life Insurance appeared first on The Insurance Pro Blog.

Posted: Dec 13, 2018

Whole Life Insurance Rates: What’s the Cost of Waiting to Buy?
Whole Life Insurance Rates: What’s the Cost of Waiting to Buy?

You are never going to pay less for whole life insurance than the amount you will pay this year.  Whole life insurance rates become dramatically more expensive (actual dollar cost and the cost of lost opportunity) but all of this will become much mor...

Posted: Dec 06, 2018

2019 Whole Life Insurance Dividend Announcements
2019 Whole Life Insurance Dividend Announcements

It's November and that means it's time for most major U.S. life insurer who have any significant focus on whole life insurance sales to announce anticipated dividends for next year.  We've already heard from a few life insurers and we are awaiting an...

Posted: Nov 15, 2018

Should You Intentionally UNDERfund Whole Life Insurance?
Should You Intentionally UNDERfund Whole Life Insurance?

Last week I was having an email conversation with a member of our audience. As part of an email that I sent out (to those lucky enough to be on our subscriber list), I asked a question and I got quite a few responses. It's a very nice thing to have a...

Posted: Nov 08, 2018

Is Universal Life Insurance Collapsing?
Is Universal Life Insurance Collapsing?

Universal life insurance is really not that interesting, but you'd never guess that by reading pretty much anything that gets published about it in the mainstream press. In fact, it has been featured in the WSJ more than a couple times in the last se...

Posted: Nov 01, 2018

Working With Bad Life Insurance Companies
Working With Bad Life Insurance Companies

Today's episode is all about the evils of working with companies that turn out to be major disappointments. Who are we talking about specifically? Well, we're not gonna name names here. Not today. Really our plan here is just to sort of weave togethe...

Posted: Oct 25, 2018

The Key to Selling More Whole Life Insurance
The Key to Selling More Whole Life Insurance

What would it mean to your business if you could find a better way of selling more whole life insurance? Over the past 7 years, we've figured out how The post The Key to Selling More Whole Life Insurance appeared first on The Insurance Pro Blog.

Posted: Oct 18, 2018

Whole Life Insurance Pros and Cons
Whole Life Insurance Pros and Cons

First, I feel the need to provide context for this post. 99% of our clients want to use cash value life insurance as an asset class. Which means people need to distinguish whole life insurance from indexed universal life insurance. Yes, there are oth...

Posted: Oct 04, 2018

Whole Life Insurance Dividend Rates Exposed
Whole Life Insurance Dividend Rates Exposed

Every year, usually sometime in November, life insurance companies that sell participating whole life insurance report their plans to pay dividends to policyholders. When the insurance companies talk about it, they often refer to as their whole life...

Posted: Sep 27, 2018