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With a spousal lifetime access trust (SLAT), one spouse makes a gift to an irrevocable trust using the gift tax exemption. The SLAT names the other spouse as a current beneficiary, which allows the trustee to distribute funds to the beneficiary spouse during their life.
When your client’s objective is to increase future retirement cash flow, paying the highest possible premium into a cash-accumulating life insurance policy may make sense. However, before you recommend this strategy, make sure your client meets these five criteria.
With flexible funding options, uncapped indices and downside protection to eliminate market losses, IUL offers more than just a death benefit. Use this example to discover how to balance growth and protection for your clients through the power of indexing.
During the accumulation phase, assets invested in the market can often recover from losses by simply waiting for a market recovery. Losses are not "realized." But at retirement, even a few down-market years can have a dramatic effect on your clients' portfolios.
If your clients are ready to move from term insurance to a permanent policy, a term conversion might be the answer. This piece show you how to guide your clients through the process.
Although a deferred annuity is great for accumulating retirement funds, it's not an efficient vehicle to transfer wealth. Deferred income may be subject to income or estate taxes at death. Using annuity maximization, assets from the annuity can be repositioned to maximize value.
You may have clients holding on to a surprisingly large concentration of stock in a single company. At older ages, diversifying may be in their best interest. Life insurance can act as a noncorrelated asset, providing a natural hedge against the market risks of concentrated stock.
A company that routinely bids for large contracts needs to maintain a large pool of working capital, usually held in conservative assets. The cash value of life insurance can be counted as liquid working capital for bond underwriting and while providing a better return.
Like all high-income earners, highly paid employees of non-profits reach a point where they'd prefer to defer some of their current taxable income. In the summer of 2016, football coach Jim Harbaugh struck a split-dollar plan with the University of Michigan that's become legendary.
Business partners often own term life insurance policies on each other to fund a buy-sell agreement. They figure the buy-sell need is temporary and will go away once either partner retires, but there are problems that can be avoided by each partner owning their own policy.
Each business stage requires a different focus and set of tools and strategies to help business owners accomplish their goals. From startup, through growth, maturity and eventually business transfer, we can help you identify the issues you should be discussing with your client.
Discover four strategies to reposition money for ultra-wealthy clients. From classic leverage through premium financing or unique tax credits, to using BOLI or an innovative 1035 exchange with our No-Load IUL, you can capture more corporate AUM and keep the IRS out.