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The Ramsey Show Highlights

Dave Argues With a Whole Life Insurance Salesman

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today you know my name is

0:06.8

elliott i graduated from a top 20 you know business school and college after college i sold triple net

0:12.9

investment sales for about two years and then for the last years of for the last year i've been a

0:17.5

whole life agent uh that you know in in Louisville, we partner with many

0:21.6

different working class companies. For discussion purposes, you know, the average American

0:27.7

retires of about $5,000 in their bank account. Personally, I tell my friends and family, you know,

0:35.6

to cash out their whole life policies.

0:42.3

And the way I pitch whole life, it's not necessarily as an investment vehicle, but more so as a savings or a savings account, but simply as insurance that accumulates cash value

0:48.5

and a paid up coverage over time.

0:51.2

In my eyes, I believe I'm leaving my members better often before they talk to me,

0:56.4

but why am I doing something so horrible in your eyes? Well, because the product is crap,

1:04.1

not because you're a bad guy, but the product that you're selling, you're trying to do a good

1:09.1

thing, Elliot, and thank you for doing

1:10.8

that. And I appreciate your heart. But basically, I mean, it's a math problem. So if you take a $200

1:19.5

whole life premium per month, I can buy the same amount of term insurance on that 30-year-old

1:27.3

for about $10.

1:29.2

So the other $190 would go towards cash value in that typical policy, the top 10 stock

1:36.7

companies out there, okay?

1:38.2

That's the actual data that's out there in today's market.

1:41.6

And so if I'm paying $190 extra for the life insurance in order to create

1:47.9

a savings account, that's not the end of the world. But it's the rules of the savings account

1:53.4

that are the cash value. We'll call it savings. You said we're using it as a savings vehicle

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