Richard CanfieldPodcast Host and IBC Advisor, Ascendant Financial · Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner | Author of 4 Books

Benefits of Whole Life Policies

29 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video titled "Benefits of Whole Life Policies" (creator: Richard Canfield). The speaker explains that whole life insurance covers the insured for their entire life, with premiums priced across the insured lifespan to build cash value that ultimately funds the death benefit. The speaker emphasizes that premiums are pooled among policyholders and that long-lived insureds (example: living to 100) effectively pay into their own coverage while accumulating cash value.

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So a whole life policy is going to be there for you no matter what, no matter how long you live. And so the way that we price for this is to look at the entire lifespan and set a premium that will effectively build up over time to cover the death benefit. Again, this isn't a lottery. And so the money is coming from the policyholders and going back to the policyholders. So if you live to be 100, for example, you've paid for yourself, you've been able to contribute and be protected for all that time. And so what we've done is built up a cash value, and that's really what you've put into the policy after accounting for the risk that you've been sharing along the way.