A buy-sell agreement is a binding contract among a business’s owners that fixes in advance what happens to an owner’s share when they die, become disabled, divorce, retire, or leave. It obligates a sale at a preset price, and works only when it is funded ...
Whole Life Insurance vs. TIPS: An Inflation-Resilient Asset
Every so often the internet decides a financial product is the answer to a problem for one reason and one reason only — its name. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities are the textbook case. They have the word inflation right on the box, so the moment p ...
Cash Value Life Insurance for Business Owners: The Liquidity Problem It Solves
Business owners buy cash value life insurance at strikingly higher rates than everyone else, and the reason has almost nothing to do with the thing most people assume. It is not a tax dodge, and for most owners today it is not mainly about the estate tax. ...
What Is a Substandard Life Insurance Risk Class?
Insurance companies have to weigh a lot of factors when they are underwriting insurance policies. They must analyze all the factors of a particular case to determine the ultimate risk they are taking on by issuing the policy, which, in turn, determines th ...




