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By Ed Hinerman on December 3, 2012
Over my career in life insurance I’ve run across some really sleazy things done by life insurance agents that in no way helped the client but definitely made the agent a great payday. Our industry has some checks and balances in place to try to hold down unscrupulous replacement practices, but the truth is if ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on November 7, 2012
Whether there is anything to the Mayan calendar that predicts the end of the world next month or not, there is one thing that is an absolute life insurance fact. Because of actions by the NAIC, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, with the strict enforcement and January 1 deadline to for life insurance companies to ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on July 11, 2012
A few years back I read an article in a trade publication and, well, I was much younger then and easily riled. I am still getting comments on the post I wrote about that article. In the life insurance business there is an organization called the Million Dollar Round Table, MDRT. MDRT is a kind ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on June 20, 2012
I received an update on new foreign national life insurance underwriting guidelines today from one of the country’s largest life insurance companies. They announced a liberalization of requirements for Mexican and Canadian citizens. From past posts you would have noted that while the criteria change from company to company, especially Mexico has been singled out ...read more
Posted in Foreign National Life Insurance, foreign nationals, high net worth, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, whole life | Tagged Canadian citizens, doesn't require business connection, foreign national life insurance, foreign national underwriting guidelines, high net worth, high net worth clients, insurance, large policies, liberal underwriting guidelines, life insurance, Mexican citizens, more liberal guidelines for Mexico, new underwriting guidelines, US life insurance companies |
By Ed Hinerman on April 3, 2012
If I’ve gone a month in the last three years without talking about conversion options and the mean spirited way some life insurance companies have treated it, forgive me. There is nothing I am quite so passionate about as beating the ugly truth completely to death. Starting with the West Coast Life fiasco now three ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on February 18, 2012
As promised I have been on a mission these past several months to prove the worth, or not, of the Infinite Banking system or the Be Your Own Banker concept, whichever title you subscribe to. I ordered and read my 5th edition “Becoming Your Own Banker” book by “Bestselling Author R Nelson Nash. I’ve actually ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on February 2, 2012
I’m on about my 15th drum now. I’ve beat so many of them to death about life insurance guarantees that I have a restraining order keeping me away from the local drum shop. Life insurance companies have been selling assumptions on whole life and universal life forever. What they say about assuming couldn’t hold more ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on January 19, 2012
As a business person I have become accustomed to wanting to deduct everything I can. If there was a way to deduct the air that is used in my office every day I would be installing an air gauge. Life insurance benefits are income tax free which is like the 8th wonder of the world ...read more
Posted in business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, Infinite banking, insurance, life insurance, whole life | Tagged business life insurance, CEO's, death benefit income tax free, Executive bonus plan, executives, fully tax deductible, infinite banking, insurance, key employees, life insurance, premium tax deductible as bonus, retirement, Section 162, selectivelly offered, supplement benefits, whole life
By Ed Hinerman on December 30, 2011
I was talking with a life insurance agent friend of mine the other day. He had called to ask me about my ongoing research and interest in the infinite banking or being your own banker concept. He thought there was another route I might want to look at. This agent suggest that instead of using ...read more
Posted in Infinite banking, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life | Tagged assumptions aren't sustainable, being your own banker concept, dividend paying whole life insurance, fund close to MEC, guaranteed basis test, indexed universal life, infinitte banking concept, insurance, life insurance, life insurance agent, modest compounding interest, over funding, UL with no term blend, whole life with term blend |
By Ed Hinerman on December 7, 2011
Big giant disclaimer. We have found several highly rated US life insurance companies that will write foreign nationals living in the US and foreign nationals living outside the US. I have kept this fairly low key until I worked through a few cases, one in Jamaica, one in India and one in Bermuda. This isn’t ...read more
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