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By Ed Hinerman on April 23, 2012
I thought it would be good to revisit some of the original posts on this forum. It’s been over 5 years and somewhere near a million words now and I wanted to see if I’m like a politician and flip flop on issues, or as I found in a few cases, the issues flip flopped ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on March 8, 2012
What do estate tax attorneys and financial planners have in common? Short,fat and bald? Maybe but not the answer I’m alluding to. They’re both working to keep the money you make in your family! Another good answer but still not quite where I was headed. It’s something that neither of them get, as in understand. ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on October 11, 2011
I know we’re American and believe that we not only ought to have our cake and eat it too, but it’s time the breadwinners of the country get a grip and allow that things don’t always go our way. I’ve talked before about what constitutes a need for life insurance, essentially being any time your ...read more
Posted in estate taxes, insurance, life insurance | Tagged estate attorney, estate tax, exemption limit, financial hardship, gifting, insurance, IRS 3 year look back, life isurance, need for life insurance, permanent life insurance policy, trust ownership |
By Ed Hinerman on September 28, 2011
All of the clients I have had who passed away and their families received death benefits really made good deals. They paid far less in premium than the pursuant death benefit. Just some examples would be a Colorado client who paid one annual premium of $800 and his family received $100,000 when he died of ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on September 15, 2011
I have a client that is 76, the kind of guy that I envy at 18 years his junior. He skis the Rockies every year and is still an instrument rated private pilot, and an active business owner. The last two business life insurance policies we got him at ages 70 and 71, we were ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on February 3, 2011
No, really!! That was the front page headline on and industry publication I get called Insurancenewsnet Magazine. Without even opening up the magazine I know where the rant is headed. Never in the history of estate planning has there been more opportunity to be as creative and accomplish as much. Articles are popping up left ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on February 1, 2011
I wrote an estate life insurance case 6 or so years ago that if you put a pencil to the numbers you would swear that the company had made a huge mistake. There was simply no feasible way for them to make a profit. The case was with Protective Life who, for a while, was ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on January 29, 2011
In a post yesterday I insinuated that we may be entering the greatest two years in history for estate wealth building, estate wealth protection and wealth transfer. That statement still stands, but…. I asked Kevin Cox with Lincoln Financial to review the post in relation to a couple of articles that I’ve been asked to ...read more
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By Ed Hinerman on January 28, 2011
So when all of the estate tax and gifting laws shook out and got signed, two things really stood out. There were some very generous changes and, unless extended, they will only last two years. This could make for the largest two years transfer of wealth in history There is an interesting twist in the ...read more
Posted in estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, second to die insurance | Tagged 2012, 2nd to die policy, Congress, estate tax, gifting laws, ILIT, insurance, irrevocable life insurance trust, leveraging, life insurance, Lincoln Financial, non taxable estate value, single premium life insurance, wealth transfer |
By Ed Hinerman on December 7, 2010
As of yesterday it appears that the President and Congress have reached a deal on a wide variety of tax issues. For the purposes of life insurance and estate tax the latest and most important news is the end to the repeal of estate tax and clear guidelines moving forward. I’ve been following this closely ...read more
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