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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 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
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By Ed Hinerman on January 11, 2012
A few days ago another agent took offense to my obviously uneducated view that indexed universal life is a poor excuse for a life insurance product, especially in the context of infinite banking. He commented on a post by starting with “I’m sure your completely well-intentioned, but you ought to be more careful of publically ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on December 12, 2011
I know that when I am shopping for something, for instance a car, I am very straight forward, even blunt, about what I want and how much I am willing to spend. I let the sales person know that it’s OK if they can’t meet my needs, but that changing anything I’ve told them is ...read more
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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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By Ed Hinerman on December 3, 2011
I know. It even showed up in my local paper. “Ed Hinerman Says Whole Life Insurance Without Gagging”! Well, the reflex is still there but I have been fighting it while I investigate whether there is a place in my universe for dividend paying whole life insurance that funds “infinite banking”. Is there another over ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on November 18, 2011
I have been dancing around the “Be your own banker” concept for the last month or so after learning more about infinite banking. I finally figured out what I have never liked about whole life insurance. People use it for life insurance. Let me tell you a story about myself and my wife and how ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on November 4, 2011
I confessed last week that I may have finally found something less than dreadful to say about whole life insurance. This day that no one ever saw coming, came through the back door a few weeks ago when I got a call asking specifically for a quote on a participating whole life insurance policy. I ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on October 27, 2011
Having spent a good deal of my career steering folks away from whole life insurance I found it fascinating to be talking to a customer that came to me and told me exactly what she wanted to buy. She wanted to do the business through me and it was whole life insurance and she simply ...read more
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