The New Generation of Life Insurance Policies
Discover how life insurance can provide living benefits and safeguard your wealth.
Most people view life insurance as something that will only benefit someone else when the policyholder dies. What most people don’t know is that the latest generation of life policies provide living benefits that can pay for critical care needs if one were to have a heart attack or a stroke; be diagnosed with conditions like cancer or dementia; or need long-term care due to an accident. These new hybrid policies provide 100% tax-free funding for these and other medical needs as a debit from the face amount of the policy while you are alive.
We all know of someone who faced the financial challenge of having to pay for these expensive medical needs. Each of our insurance carriers provide for this important benefit at no additional cost.
Most people have never heard that specific life insurance policies can provide 100% tax-free retirement income. Even more, the government recently revised the tax code and made life insurance policies even more accessible for retirement income.
Life insurance has an unfair advantage over other asset classes such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, 401k’s and most IRA’s. With the exception of Roth IRA’s, these other asset classes all suffer from the same critical problem: the retirement distributions they create are all completely taxable (both federal and state) as ordinary/regular income.
When done correctly, our life insurance policies can actually provide several tax advantages:
Our strategies are not for everyone, but our strength is that we work with a team that includes taxation experts that help us create the exact type of policy to fit the needs of our clients.
For example: if you are a company owner that needs to retain key talent, our concepts allow for a discriminatory selection/funding for those selected executives. Often, but not always, the premium is deductible as a corporate expense.