Case Design
#206 | A Practitioner’s Guide to Picking Product
Since the inception of our industry, we have been bedeviled by the question of whether or not life insurance is a commodity. It is a question core to what we do and why we exist. If life insurance is a…
James Christie | Be Aware or Beware Part II
In my previous article titled “Be Aware of Beware – Part 1” we discussed the importance of truly understanding the underlying defaults setup in a carrier’s illustration system. We explored the “Minimum Non-MEC” solve and uncovered how at times it…
James Christie | Be Aware or Beware – Part 1
In my previous article titled “Flip the Script-Solve for the Rate” I discussed a different way to go about illustrating and selling a non-guaranteed insurance product, specifically Indexed universal life for cash accumulation and income purposes. The steps to follow…
James Christie | Flip the Script – Solve for the Rate
The IUL marketplace is backwards, matter of fact, it is upside down. Frankly, the way products are being sold right now feels like we are a bunch of mouth-breathers. As I spoke about in the first post of this series,…
#160 | Policy Funding on the Margin
A couple of weeks ago, one of the subscribers to this site reached out about a curious calculation he’d run while reviewing a proposal for one of his clients. The basic crux of the question was why seemingly minor changes…
#63 | Managing a Shadow Account Conversation
A year or so ago, I worked on a case with a producer on an extremely successful financier with three degrees from Harvard, one of which was a JD. All went well and the producer placed a large Guaranteed SUL…
#62 | Managing a Conversation about Non-Guaranteed Elements
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#56 | Indexed UL and Illustrated Rates
Whenever I talk about Indexed UL, someone inevitably asks me what illustrated rate is best for Indexed UL. I have a love/hate relationship with this question because the answer is irrelevant. Illustrations of future performance are always inaccurate. Choosing the…
#52 | Maximizing Term Coverage Efficiency
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#51 | Anatomy of an Anomaly
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