Speaking to Clients About Premium Financed IUL Policies
It’s important to understand the details and risks. This sample letter may help clients and advisors alike.
Dear Ms. Prospect:
It was good to speak with you yesterday morning about the proposed supplemental retirement plan, and I thought I would follow up with a couple of comments. As we discussed, I’m very familiar with indexed products and premium financing. I believe there are appropriate times and places to use the product and strategy, and there are times when it’s not.
Prospective consumers need to fully understand what they’re getting into on both the product and the strategy side. They need to intimately understand the variety of risks. A general rule of thumb is that they should be able to pay the full premium out of pocket but choose to finance it because they’re comfortable with the risks and have the ability to buy themselves out of trouble if trouble shows up (and it does too often). Finally, they need the policy meticulously managed until the day they die.
The proposed product is a newer policy design, and some feel it’s too aggressive. I have access to a tremendous amount of analysis regarding the policy that I’d be happy to share. One reason it’s popular in the premium financing world is because it was created to illustrate very strongly and to win the illustration wars. This doesn’t mean it’ll actually perform successfully. For full post, click here…
