In this video, the speaker discusses the benefits and misconceptions surrounding life insurance. They explain that life insurance should be viewed as a multi-dimensional asset that allows money to grow tax-free, be used tax-free, and be passed on tax-free. They compare life insurance to other types of savings and investment vehicles, highlighting its advantages such as safety, leverageability, tax benefits, and creditor protection. The speaker also discusses overfunding life insurance policies, which allows for more cash value and flexibility. They emphasize the importance of understanding how different contracts and companies can affect the overall performance and benefits of life insurance. Finally, they discuss the concept of borrowing against a life insurance policy as a way to access funds without interrupting the compounding growth.
Key Insights:
- Overfunding a life insurance policy allows for more cash value and greater flexibility.
- Life insurance should be viewed as a short to medium-term storage of cash, not as an investment.
- Permanent life insurance policies with cash value can be a stable and tax-advantaged savings vehicle.
- Mutual life insurance companies are often more favorable than stock companies as they prioritize policyholders‘ interests.
- Life insurance contracts and companies should be carefully chosen based on ratings, stability, and track record.
- Life insurance policies can be designed differently, with high base premiums but higher face value or overfunded policies with lower death benefits but greater cash value.
- Internal rate of return (IRR) and compounding should be considered when comparing different financial assets.
- Life insurance provides benefits like safety, leverage, tax advantages, creditor protection, and flexibility in using and passing on the wealth.
- Borrowing against a life insurance policy can allow for the utilization of cash flow, control of assets, and potential investment opportunities.
- Life insurance policies can be a multi-dimensional asset, offering long-term growth, protection, and opportunity for additional financial benefits.
Transcript
So overfunding is essentially where you are putting as much cash in as possible and getting as little insurance as possible. If something happened to me, I want my family to live the same lifestyle. Sometimes that might be like you lose flexibility being just minimum funded and that’s a risk. Which insurance should you buy? I’m talking life insurance, and there’s so many videos and philosophies from variable life to Universal Life to index universal life to whole life to term and invest the difference. Some gurus and people on TV say you should never buy anything but term insurance. Other people think there’s no reason to have insurance at all. Who’s right? Who’s wrong? Why don’t we actually dive in and look at some of the numbers? I brought a youngster with me, let’s look at some of these numbers and check this out. A lot of people misclassify life insurance. They think they’re comparing it to investing. I don’t look at my life insurance as an investment yet, I might consider it as short to medium-term storage of my cash. It’s like my short to medium-term storage of my cash that’s available when I have an opportunity. Some people say, „I don’t want to pay tax,“ so they use municipal bonds. But in today’s interest rate environment, that lowers the value of municipal bonds if you’re already holding them. Other places people put money as a CD, but that’s taxable. I feel much more comfortable with Mutual Life Insurance companies than with a bank right now, especially in a higher interest rate environment. let’s just take a look at this as a savings vehicle and the multitude of benefits that come along with it.
