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Whole Life Product Articles & Videos

Whole Life insurance is one of the most misunderstood financial products in existence. So often is it criticized by biased competitors and also misused and inefficiently designed by its practitioners. Yet it remains the most stable and versatile assets when used as the ultimate cash equivalent and private banking hub. Explore our vast library of articles & videos on the crux of Whole Life as a product.
John "Hutch" Hutchinson
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PUA Rider increase your Whole Life cash value's guaranteed cash value growth curve by adding Paid-Up Additions

Paid-Up Additions (PUA) Rider: The Secret to Accelerating Whole Life Insurance

Paid-Up Additions (PUA) are mini chunks of whole life insurance stacked onto an ordinary whole life policy acting like a turbo-charger of sorts. Because paid-up additions are completely paid-up in one shot, a PUA increases your Whole Life’s policy’s guaranteed cash value & death benefit. Paid-Up Additions can be added via a PUA rider or by electing it as the primary dividend option.

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Infinite Banking Concept Explained: How to Become Your Own Banker

Infinite Banking is a cash flow management system using the cash value in a life insurance policy rather than traditional bank accounts. By borrowing against their policies cash value, users of the Infinite Banking keep their liquidity compounding inside a tax sheltered environment and end up at a higher place in line when they pay down the loans.

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Whole Life acts like a swiss army knife in retirement

Whole Life Insurance For Retirement

Whole Life insurance is meant to complement not replace your retirement portfolio. Its protected growth & tax-exemption make Whole Life an ideal retirement buffer, not to mention its death benefit can allow you to spend more of your portfolio while you’re alive.

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VIDEOS

Whole Life’s Riders and Growth Components Explained

Confused by all Whole Life’s moving parts? This video explains the the conceptual interplay between all of Whole Life’s riders & growth components using a race car analogy. Then we put numbers to these concepts so you can learn the optimal way to design a Whole Life policy for infinite banking and why.

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Is Whole Life Expensive for IBC?

This video goes back in time to look at the fickle & fluctuating interest rates on high-yield savings vs. deploying that money into a 10-pay Whole Life policy. You’ll find that the smoother & steadier growth of Whole Life plus its immunity to taxation makes it a more attractive option.

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Are Big 1st Year Premium Dump-ins Good with Whole Life 4 IBC?

What if you have extra cash to dump-in a HUGE 1st year premium into a Whole Life insurance policy for infinite banking. Certain carriers even have a special to add a big first year premium. But is this optimal? Hutch explores how the extra death benefit needed for this rider may not be the optimal design and shows some other customized alternatives.

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Whole Life 4 Kids?

Is Whole Life insurance better for children or their parents when using whole life insurance for infinite banking or tax-free retirement income? This video takes an in-depth look at a juvenile whole life policy and compares it to a similar policy on the parents. The results are shocking!

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Whole Life Can Be Flexible Too

This video explores how Whole Life insurance can be designed to have a range of flexibility. Explore how you can pause overfunding or stop premiums altogether after 7 years, or continue funding for multiple decades.

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Two Ways Whole Life Pays Income

This video discusses the 2 distinct ways that Whole Life insurance policy can provide income in retirement. See the effect of bleeding down a policy with withdrawals then loans, as well as how the policy behaves when taking only dividends in cash.

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Cash Value + Death Benefit – Do I Get Both?

This video answers the age-old question of whether you get both the cash value and the death benefit from a life insurance policy when you die, or just the cash value. The truth of the matter is, you get to choose whether you want both or not. Life insurance is similar to everything else in life, you get what you pay for.

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