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There’s an insurance product that can fund intergenerational trust wealth for next to nothing.  It’s a tax-advantaged instrument that:

  • is historically safer than banks;
  • offers tax-advantaged compounding of dividend and distributions;
  • the trust gets to use the premiums it paid to fund its other investments through low cost guaranteed borrowing
  • the borrowing interest rate is historically lower than the dividend distribution paid out, and you're borrowing against the death benefits while your policy’s cash value compounds unhindered by your guaranteed loan
  • and it provides life-changing payouts upon family members’ deaths, guaranteeing a massive influx of wealth at the end of each generation to refund or expand the trust for upcoming generations.  
The smartest investment brains on the planet work for life insurance companies.  Banks invest a substantial amount of their reserves in life insurance policies - in the billions!  This investment is so good it’s not uncommon for bank balance sheets to show holdings of twice as much life insurance than real estate.

Because of their significant social benefit life insurance dividends are tax-sheltered making their compounding superior to other forms of “risk-off” investments like US Treasuries, bank CDs or bonds. 

Also, and significantly, death benefits are entirely tax-free.

Life insurance companies hedge their investments to maximize returns while taking minimal risks.  They have superior century-long investment records of steady, reliable returns. 

Whole life policies from mutual insurance companies offer guaranteed tax-free growth rates of 2-3% and pay tax-free non-guaranteed, but reliable annual dividends on top of that.  Albert Einstein said that compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world.  Those who know get it.  Those who don’t pay it.  Making interest on interest tax free in this investment snowballs your trust funds into a family fortune in the safest and most reliable manner possible.

There is no safer, more reliable way to compound a risk-off investment than a fine tuned, whole life mutual insurance policy.  It’s no wonder why they’re banks' investment vehicles of choice, not to mention a strategy of capital formation for industry titans like Disineyland, McDonalds, JC Penney,  Foster Farms, the Pampered Chef, and much more. 

Whole-life mutual insurance policy investments may be a DST staple for guaranteeing intergenerational family wealth.

There are several insurance companies that are wholly owned by policyholders directly, called mutual life insurance companies.  These are advantageous because all the gains these companies make go directly to policyholders as opposed to profits being siphoned out to stockholders.

These mutual life insurance companies offer their shareholders a guaranteed tax-free multi-million dynastic wealth option at very marginal opportunity cost.

Here’s how they work:

Choose a mutual life insurance company so that dividends paid on your policy are not diluted by public shareholder dividends.
Max out the cash value of whole life insurance on yourself, and/or your family members with paid-up additions and term insurance riders which offers cash value as high and as close to your paid premiums as possible.
Borrow back your premiums for reinvestments against the policy’s large death benefits, up to (as near as is possible to) the cash value availability created by your paid-up premiums.
You will be charged an interest rate for your loan, but it will be historically more than offset by the tax-free distributions your mutual insurance company pays on your policy.
Pay off any of your life insurance loans with the cash flow from your policy and reinvestments (do not let it cannibalize the death benefit);
In about a month (insurance loan processing time) after you make premium payments, you’ll have a very significant portion of the cost of this policy returned to you in cost-free loans, so you can reinvest how you would have had you skipped this dynastic wealth building strategy altogether.  Or you can just let your life insurance cash value policy compound, if you feel you have no better investment alternatives.
Generational wealth will flood into your family trust in the form of death benefits as one generation passes, and another one flourishes nearly cost-free every generation thanks to the compounding investment results of these world-class investment geniuses of centuries old whole-life mutual insurance companies.

In this strategy you get to employ the best minds in the investment world working for returns on your paid premiums.  You get a return on your policy which is not reduced by policy loans - rather, they’re colateralized by the policy’s death benefits.  And you get guaranteed loans with interest rates less than the growth and dividend value of the policy whereby you can reinvest the money you paid for premiums into any other investment your DST chooses.  You’re getting two returns on two investment vehicles (the policy and your reinvestment of policy loans) for the cost and capital layout of one!  Where else (other than Lloyds of London insurance writing) can you double dip ROI on one investment?

The loans used to reinvest (if you chose) are also drawn tax-free.  They can be repaid with policy dividends, so they are largely cost free as well.  Because of this loan option your trust premium investments are only temporarily diverting your capital from working its own magic on your own trust investment portfolio.

And while your whole life mutual insurance distributions pay off your loans, you're left with a small positive delta between your mutual life insurance cash value compounding growth (thanks to your mutual life insurance whole life policy ROI) and your life insurance loan repayment.  All the while, your DST reinvestments are hardly hindered by a temporary diversion of investment funds to front run these whole life mutual insurance premiums.

In the end your family can gain multi-million dollar payouts every generation at nearly no opportunity cost because of the investing brilliance of your (in every sense of the word) mutual life insurance company.

The DST can own policies paid for by the trust.  Having the seller as insured doesn’t violate trust rules, since the seller is not the insurance beneficiary.  The DST can be the beneficiary of the payout of these policies to protect against irresponsible fortune squandering by wayward nouveau rich family members who would otherwise take the death benefit windfall.  And the generational death benefit payouts will more than replenish the DST investments in family members in a way that empowers instead of corrupts. 

Each generation can educate, train, and, when ready, hand over family trustee responsibilities to a family member, or investment professional, or a cohort of family members of the next generation who have the investment curiosity and character to learn how to shepard the family trust into each successive generation.

This strategy of using whole life insurance from mutual insurance companies in generational estate planning goes by many names. So - why wouldn’t you front run your capital through whole life mutual insurance policies first, before borrowing the same funds against death benefits at a net ROI gain, just to turn around and reinvest policy loans in the investments you plan to make in any event, and collect millions in death benefits every generation to boot?  What’s the downside?  The upside is millions in additional trust fund assets that would otherwise be lost. 

Be that guy in your family that walks out of the financial stone age and establishes constructive generational wealth for all your successive lineage through this risk-off no-brainer strategy.

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