Life Insurance is a powerful retirement income planning tool. A Life Insurance Retirement Plan can provide tax-free income for life. Not only that, but it is important to understand that Maximum Over-funded Life Insurance can provide 2 to 3 times the after-tax income of traditional retirement planning assets.
This means that you don’t need as much money to generate the same amount of income from a Life Insurance Retirement Plan. Alternatively, you can get 2 to 3 times the income from the same amount of savings.
- You can retire on half as much savings, or
- You can get 2 to 3 times the income from the same amount of savings.
Why would you want a Life Insurance Retirement Plan?
Lower Risk
A Life Insurance Retirement Plan will be the safest part of your retirement portfolio. And since a Policy can meet multiple objectives:
- Death Benefit Protection
- Emergency Fund
- Tax-free Income
It should be the first thing you start when you are young. The policy will grow with you throughout your life.
Life Insurance Cash Value is inherently safe. The Company’s goal is not investment income. The goal of the Cash Value is for the Policy Owner to essentially save up the Death Benefit themselves. Since we can get 2 to 3 times the income from the same amount of savings, we also don’t need to take on as much risk to get the same income.
Life insurance companies invest their assets in the Debt Markets. They buy Bonds, Treasuries, Mortgage-backed Securities, Preferred Stocks and make other debt investments. Life Insurance companies are conservative by nature. They don’t need to hit the ball out of the park. They just need slow steady growth
It’s important to realize that an Indexed Universal Life is an even more powerful retirement planning tool. An Indexed Universal Life policy uses the earnings from the insurance company’s investments to hedge in the index options markets. This hedging allows the Insurance Company to capture a premium over the return in the debt markets. You should realize that there is nothing quite like an Indexed Universal Life on a risk-adjusted basis. There is no market risk to principal and the returns are better than debt-market rates of return. And unlike your financial advisor, the insurance company has an incentive for the Cash Value to grow as quickly as possible.
More Tax-free Income
You need to realize that your investment account statements don’t pay bills. That statement is just a piece of paper with numbers printed on it. You need CASH to pay bills. Your statements only show the value of your portfolio. You need to convert that savings into income that will last through retirement.
Most financial advisors use the “4%-Rule” to determine the safe withdrawal rate from your retirement savings. Don’t take my word for it! Google it.
The Rule of Thumb for Life Insurance is 8%.
It’s important to point out that most people will get more bang-for-the-buck with a LIRP than with Traditional Retirement assets. This means that despite higher growth rates for most of their saving years, even a person in their twenties today would be better off with a LIRP than traditional assets. The LIRP would generate more tax-free income.
Additional Resources
Free eBook – How Does Life Insurance Work?
How can the cash value earn more than the borrowing rate?
Click Here for a great article explaining why Life Insurance Policy Loans are so powerful.
Minimum and Maximum Over-funded Life Insurance Policies
Here’s a table comparing a Traditional IRA to a LIRP. Both are starting retirement with the same amount of savings.
Watch this video for an explanation of the table…
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The sole purpose of life insurance is for the death benefit protection. Any other benefit is ancillary.