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Insurance Pro Blog Podcast

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The Insurance Pro Blog Podcast releases new episodes each week that support professional life insurance agents and financial planners who seek to better understand how cash value life insurance, in particular, might work for the benefit of their clients.

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Inflating the Rate of Return on Cash Value Life...

Insurance Pro Blog Podcast ·

2022/04/17

Over the years we've seen our fair share of dubious sales practices used by "professionals" to sell the whiz bang awesomeness of cash value life insurance (both whole life and indexed universal life). But none as egregious as when we see financial professionals intentionally inflating the rate of return by plugging in an artificially high tax rate in the illustration software. It's done by using a taxable equivalent yield calculation that assumes a very high effective tax rate (north of 50% in

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30:33

Whole Life Still Gets Better with Age

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2022/04/11

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52:46

The Last Word on Ohio National's Demutualization

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2022/04/03

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36:03

Lock In Your Success With Life Insurance

Insurance Pro Blog Podcast ·

2022/03/27

We sell life insurance to a variety of people for a handful of reasons, and today I want to highlight one of the common themes involved when someone approaches us about a life insurance purchase. To be sure, there are several reasons why someone might want to buy life insurance. And when it comes to cash value life insurance, the motivations multiply and often overlap a bit. We have a specific example of one motivation that came up recently, and I think it explains the scenario really well. If

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39:32

Kale Steaks and Rental Property

Insurance Pro Blog Podcast ·

2022/03/21

The internet is rife with hot tips on how to beat inflation. Since a lot of supposed financial media outlets compete with each other for top billing on Google, the majority of these articles are an incestuous party of underwhelming originality--or even actionability if I'm being wholly honest with you. The free-lancers who dabble in finance rounded up the usual suspects and found someone with credentials to parrot something related to using them for the purpose of beating inflation. You'll find

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31:37

The Problem High Inflation Poses for Indexed...

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2022/03/14

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36:12

I Should Have Bought Stocks

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2022/03/06

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33:37

Should Savvy Business Owners Own Whole Life Insurance?

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2022/02/28

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40:02

Do We Hate Annuities?

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2022/02/20

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30:57

Will COVID Destroy Life Insurers Balance Sheets?

Insurance Pro Blog Podcast ·

2022/02/14

We're now well over a year since the COVID-19 Pandemic began, and this means we now have some data that gives us some insights into how the Pandemic is affecting life insurers. Not surprisingly, when the Pandemic began, we saw ample hand-wringing among life insurance companies. Many of them quickly put strict restrictions in place regarding COVID exposure as well as a multitude of limitations on new business that sought to reduce general risk exposure. Thankfully, with a little bit of distance

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34:31

The Life Insurance Product that Produces an Amazing...

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2022/02/06

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32:17

Will Rising Rates Mean More Expensive Life Insurance...

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2022/01/30

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35:14

Make the 4% Rule Better with the 4.7% Rule

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2022/01/23

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