Life Insurance Planning
Life Insurance Planning

Author: Stephan R. Leimberg

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 9780872189331

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This book covers all aspects of life insurance planning. Specifically, it covers how to estimate the need and choose the right policy and right company for a client, and it describes the different types of life insurance available and the different ways life insurance can be used to meet a clients planning goals. This book is designed to be highly useful to students, CPAs, attorneys, trust officers, and others whose professional task is to advise others. Because it carefully defines each new term, it will also be of immense use to the layperson searching for a reliable objective source of information and to the professional searching for perspective. Key Selling Points: describes the particular tool or technique, its advantages and disadvantages, alternatives, and frequently asked questions and answers, allowing quick comprehension and comparison of the tools and techniques; explains the income and transfer tax consequences of life insurance, ensuring that the solution chosen will accomplish the clients goals and objectives; discusses many different ways to use life insurance, from life insurance trusts to life insurance in qualified plans; and covers over 10 different types of policies, from term to variable universal life insurance. Discover proven methods for determining needs and close more sales than ever before with helpful hints throughout. Unique charts, checklists, and real-world examples help immediately apply skills and identify the impact of new regulations on existing paradigms.

The Tools and Techniques of Life Insurance Planning, 9th Edition
The Tools and Techniques of Life Insurance Planning, 9th Edition

Author: Stephan Leimberg

Publisher:

Published: 2023-02-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781954096943

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The ninth edition of The Tools & Techniques of Life Insurance Planning is written to help planners and advisors understand the tools needed to use life insurance as a part of a successful financial, business, or estate plan, and how to use these tools in the most effective ways. We had one major goal in mind when writing this book: "To create the single best source of up-to-date, pragmatic, and transferable information on the topics you need to help others." With the growing labyrinth of highly technical and interrelated tax and other laws that have an impact upon clients and their plans, our task--and yours has become exceedingly difficult. We believe The Tools & Techniques of Life Insurance Planning will be of significant help in this regard. Throughout the chapters of this book, you'll find unique charts, checklists, graphs, examples, and references to assist you in absorbing these highly complex concepts and product nuances. In turn you will be able to convey these to clients in a clear and simple manner. This title features: Detailed information about the entire range of life insurance products that can be used by estate and financial planners in a wide variety of circumstances Coverage of advanced topics, such as 103 exchanges, the transfer-for-value rule, and the use of life insurance products for charitable gift planning New in the Ninth Edition: Chapters have been reordered to provide an easier to comprehend progression of product design and complexity. Text has been updated to reflect recent changes to the regulatory environment. Product descriptions, illustrations and tables have been revised to include newer product designs. Discussions of Income and Estate Taxation of life insurance products have been consolidated in chapters devoted to taxes. Added new Techniques chapter 20 which highlights all the different advanced life insurance planning opportunities and serves as an introduction to the remaining Techniques chapters. Added new and enhanced discussion of planning techniques such as: Split premium bonus arrangements Life expectancy loan regime split dollar Generational split dollar Spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs) Life insurance retirement plan (LIRP) Insured controlled cross-purchase buy-sell arrangement Enhanced discussion of what constitutes a "top hat" plan for non-qualified deferred compensation plan purposes Topics Covered: Planning techniques for retirement income needs, estate and gift tax avoidance, estate liquidity needs, and long-term care planning Plain-language descriptions of the tax consequences of various life insurance products and strategies that plans can use to minimize tax liabilities And More! See the "Table of Contents" section for a full list of topics

Financial Planning Answer Book (2009)
Financial Planning Answer Book (2009)

Author: Jeffrey H. Rattiner

Publisher: CCH

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9780808092179

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Covering the five key areas of financial planning, this guide emphasizes its technical, tax, and regulatory aspects. The areas of discussion include investments, employee benefits and retirement plan assets, insurance, income tax and estate planning, and regulatory issues.

Essentials of Personal Financial Planning
Essentials of Personal Financial Planning

Author: Susan M. Tillery

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-09-21

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 1119421209

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ESSENTIALS OF PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING Essentials of Personal Financial Planning was written to challenge the status quo by promoting personal financial planning (PFP) as a profession, not as a sales tool to gather assets under management or facilitate sales of insurance products. The book takes a comprehensive and integrated approach to PFP for accounting students, allowing them to view the profession through the lens of a CPA – with integrity and objectivity. This book systematically introduces the essentials of all the major PFP topics (estate, retirement, investments, insurance, and tax), as well as: The PFP process, concepts and regulatory environment. Professional responsibilities of a CPA personal financial planner and the requirements of the Statement on Standards in PFP Services. Time value of money concepts. The book then builds on these foundational concepts, showing their interconnectivity and professional opportunities, to provide a deeper understanding of PFP and its application. After reading this book, students will be able to apply the knowledge and skills gained from this course to have an immediate and long-term positive impact for themselves and for the clients they serve.

How to Sell Life Insurance
How to Sell Life Insurance

Author: Michael A. Bonilla

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-04-15

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781545411506

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General and Specific Tips to help improve your life insurance sales knowledge. Ever wonder how some Agents are able to sell life insurance at seemingly astronomical rate? Every great Life Agent has a system and some of the techniques in this book might help you build one that works for you.

The Tools and Techniques of Estate Planning, 20th Edition
The Tools and Techniques of Estate Planning, 20th Edition

Author: Stephan Leimberg

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 1074

ISBN-13: 9781954096080

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The Tools & Techniques of Estate Planning covers all aspects of estate planning, from behavioral and ethical issues to estate and gift tax planning, to planning for nontraditional couples and the risk of health issues for aging clients. With topics that are applicable for both large and small estates, this title enables estate planners to: Help clients plan every aspect of their estate, including tax, investment, insurance, and estate administration decisions; Help clients effectively preserve their assets under current law; Handle a wide variety of estates and specific circumstances; and Save significant amounts of time with exclusive estate planning tools. This book features easy-to-understand, real-world examples from expert authors on which techniques are best suited for a wide variety of circumstances, and equally important advice on how to avoid future problems. New in the 20th Edition: There have been several updates in tax legislation since the release of the prior edition, many of which affect estate planning. When rules change, every estate planner must stay completely up-to-date with all the opportunities--and pitfalls--arising from the new legislation. This edition features: Updates resulting from the SECURE Act, affecting qualified retirement plans; New information on COVID-19 related tax changes for employee benefit plans; Employee retention credit under the CARES Act; Coverage of new IRS valuation tables in addition to the prior valuation tables; Updated ERISA compliance and reporting requirements; and Updated tax information, including the new 2021 COVID-19 stimulus and CAA bills. Topics Covered: Practice of estate planning Choosing the right professionals for estate planning Ownership and transfer of property Estate, gift, GST, and income tax considerations for estate planning The use of revocable and irrevocable trusts in estate planning The use of life insurance in estate planning Planning for incapacity and special needs Valuations issues Charitable giving Using employee benefits to meet estate planning goals Intra-family wealth transfers and business succession planning And more! See the "Table of Contents" section for a full list of topics As with all of the resources in the highly acclaimed Leimberg Library, every area covered in this book is accompanied by the tools, techniques, practice tips, and examples you can use to help your clients successfully navigate the complex course of estate planning and confidently meet their needs.