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🗓️ 11 May 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Have you ever wondered if you should buy whole life or term insurance?
Tune in to this week's mini-episode of The Money Guy Show as we review the two different types of life insurance policies and what you need to know about them both.
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0:00.0 | Show about term or whole life insurance. |
0:30.0 | So life insurance. |
0:33.0 | I already feel the controversy stirring in the air right now. |
0:37.0 | Well, I also felt like I had to kick the energy up because life insurance is kind of like, |
0:42.0 | more big insurance. |
0:44.0 | It's not big. |
0:45.0 | It's sad to talk about it. |
0:46.0 | But it is going to be something that I think will get a lot of dialogue and a lot of comments on. |
0:50.0 | Because not only is the world of insurance changing, |
0:54.0 | just the world in general, the financial world is moving so fast. |
0:58.0 | And we're recording this show in 2018. |
1:02.0 | We just had brand new tax reform. |
1:04.0 | And one of the biggest components of that tax reform was the state exemption went from $5.5 million to $11 million. |
1:12.0 | So think about that. |
1:13.0 | A couple now could have $22 million in assets before they have a state taxes. |
1:19.0 | I got to tell you, that umbrella is pretty big that most people don't have a state tax issues anymore. |
1:25.0 | Whereas when I first started managing assets and doing financial planning, the number was in the 600. |
1:30.0 | So if you, you know, $600,000 range, you had a house and a retirement, a 401k or an IRA, you probably had an estate issue. |
1:37.0 | So it was very easy to say, well, if you want to fix that and you want to fix that immediately, go buy some life insurance. |
1:43.0 | Well, also life insurance is not only about a state planning. |
1:46.0 | It's more about replacing income and funding goals because let's face it, the big thing you're worried about if you left this planet tomorrow, |
1:54.0 | you got hit by that proverbial bus on Tuesday, right? |
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