Life insurance

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Your clients have worked long and hard their entire adult lives to secure a comfortable retirement, so make certain they don't make one of the most common mistakes as they contemplate their options.

The decisions indicated that justices will use far stricter scrutiny of government regulations moving forward, and some cases dealt a direct impact right away.

A decision backing the surviving shareholder in a family business could have carried major tax implications to succession plans. Instead, SCOTUS backed the IRS.

When a small company holds a life insurance policy, estate planning gets complicated — which is why assigning it to an individual or a family may be the better choice.

Some financial advisors and tax professionals with high net worth clients could find big advantages before the expiration of provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The report casts a skeptical eye on the PPLI industry, claiming it functions as a tax shelter for a few thousand millionaires and billionaires.

What you don't know can hurt you as it pertains to your clients as well as your own life insurance portfolio.

Don’t get stuck doing ‘a quick review’ or checking what clients have already bought.

These policies create an excellent source for the payment of estate and other transfer taxes, as well as the augmentation of family income and wealth after the death of the senior generation.