If You’re Tellin’, You’re Not Sellin’: How to Close More Financial Sales Without Pushing Products
Why Your Clients Tune Out—And What to Do Instead If you’re spending most of your client meetings talking, rattling off features, explaining policies, and proving how much you know… I hate to break it to you, but you’re losing sales. Your clients don’t care about your encyclopedic knowledge of products. They care about their problems, […]
50% LESS COST, 100% MORE IMPACT: A New Era of Retirement Planning
Let’s face it—the retirement planning world has changed. The old rules? They no longer apply. Clients are living longer, spending more, and facing unpredictable markets. Things were different when pensions and social security covered the bulk of retirement expenses. But now things are different: market volatility can become a real problem with people trying to […]
Rescuing a Bank Loan from Rising Interest Rates
IUL AS A REFINANCING TOOL IN A RISING RATE ENVIRONMENT With the cost of capital increasing dramatically as interest rates have risen, many commercial loans now have terms that are far less favorable, if not punitive. Fortunately, clients with life insurance assets have access to a “refinancing” strategy that can provide relief from higher rates […]
ASSET ALLOCATION STRATEGY’S MISSING PIECE: ASSET LOCATION
Asset Allocation has been part of the investment professional’s asset management strategy for decades. More recently, a considerable amount of attention has been focused on a natural extension of that approach: Asset Location. KEY TAKEAWAYS Asset location is an investing strategy that has potential to lower your clients’ overall tax bill. There are taxable, tax-deferred, […]