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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: Whole Life’s Turbocharger

Paid-up Additions are mini single-premium Whole Life policies that can only be purchased as an add-on to a larger ordinary policy. They are purchased either by dividends or a PUA rider and then stacked onto the base Whole Life insurance policy, accelerating its overall performance for Infinite Banking and retirement planning.

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Infinite banking is a system of cash flows through a permanent life insurance policy to become your own banker

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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With infinite banking life insurance you can do reduced paid up or premium offset

Reduced Paid-Up Insurance (RPU): What It Is & When to Use It

Whole Life’s “Reduced Paid-Up” (RPU) non-forfeiture option is a guaranteed policy provision meant to be used as safety measure. However, doing an RPU can also maximize cash value growth whenever you are ready to cease paying premiums on your Whole Life policy. This article compares doing an RPU vs. a premium offset where you use dividends to achieve “vanishing premiums”

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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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10 Red Flags With Infinite Banking

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?

Critics say Whole Life is expensive, even when using term & PUA riders for infinite banking. In this video, Hutch dispels the myths by showing a true cost/benefit analysis of IBC.

Hutch also examines this scarcity mindset further by comparing becoming your own banker with IBC to real estate investing and entrepreneurship (both of which take time to be profitable).

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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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