Fee-only insurance advisors provide advice on insurance-buying decisions free of the potential conflicts posed by commissions. Fee-only advisors receive compensation through a fee you agree to pay them for their work. In exchange for their fee, these advisors will review the facts of your specific buying situation, insurance proposals you received from agents, and make …
Premium finance life insurance requires the policy owner to get a loan from a bank to pay the premiums on his/her policy. The strategy works to reduce the net cost of buying an extremely large life insurance policy, and wealthy Americans use premium financing for this very purpose. There are, however, times when unscrupulous insurance …
The guaranteed insurability riders, also known as the future purchase option, future increase option, guaranteed purchase option, or guaranteed increase option rider, allows the insured of a life or disability insurance policy to purchase additional coverage without going through a new medical exam. This rider can help an insured purchase additional amounts of insurance when …
When you retire, you have the option to continue paying for the life insurance you had while you were working or buying your own policy that is not connected to your employer at all. For most people, the type of group life insurance (offered at work) that costs almost nothing while working becomes very expensive …
The GameStop Reddit short squeeze shows us that it’s possible for a crowd of retail investors to perpetrate stock market manipulation similar to the allegations levied for years against hedge funds. It’s yet another example of the volatility stocks can possess that makes little practical sense and turns the capital markets from a funding source …
Life insurance loan interest causes a lot of misunderstanding. The interest is a charge assessed by the insurance company on any outstanding loan balance a policyholder has against an insurance policy’s cash value. That seems simple enough, but why does the insurance company charge interest? How much interest do you have to pay on a …
You should buy high early cash value life insurance if you have a need or desire to quickly accumulate cash value in your life insurance policy. After reading that, you may be asking yourself, “why wouldn’t everyone want to grow their cash value as quickly as possible?” That’s a fair question and one with a …
Modified life insurance, also commonly modified whole life insurance, is a unique form of permanent life insurance that offers a much lower premium for the first few policy years in exchange for a higher premium after an introductory period. The spirit of this type of life insurance is budget-friendliness. The target market is families where …
As the proverbial clock marched towards midnight in 2020 Congress fought over how to deliver a second round of stimulus in the U.S. The end result was a watered-down version of the legislation passed earlier in the year in terms of cash payments to certain Americans, but the bill contained numerous provisions that, like most …
What is a Modified Endowment Contract? A Modified Endowment Contract (MEC) is a life insurance policy that fails the 7-pay test established by the Tax and Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1988 (TAMRA). Failure of this test reclassified the life insurance policy, which comes with several changes to the taxation of the insurance contract. It’s important …
