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The Life Insurance Policy CrisisThe Life Insurance Policy Crisis

A new era of thinking is needed, and it starts with informed intervention

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Do you read, speak and understand “life insurance?” This seems like an awkward question, but life insurance is a financial asset foreign language that requires a problem-solving interpreter to understand. Consider:

• There’s a lapsing flexible premium life insurance policy crisis that’s been predicted for the past 25 years due to reasons that are easily understood and just as easy to avoid—why has nothing been done about it? After years of timely premium payments, why is lapse without value in the best interest of any policy owner? 

• Every week, informed media articles in major publications address the increasing cost of insurance (COI) charges applied to flexible premium non-guaranteed policy types, the resulting adverse impact on polici...

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About the Authors

E. Randolph Whitelaw

Managing Director, Trust Asset Consultants, LLC

E. Randolph Whitelaw is managing director of Trust Asset Consultants, LLC in St. Louis and co-author of The Life Insurance Policy Crisis - The Advisors’ and Trustees’ Guide To Managing Risks and Avoiding A Client Crisis published by the American Bar Association.  

Henry Montag

Principal, TOLI Center East

Henry Montag is an Independent Certified Financial Planner in practice since 1976. He is a principle and managing director of The TOLI Center East, which provides independent fee-based performance evaluation for trust owned life Insurance for private trustees & their advisers. He has had articles published in the NYSBA, NYSSCPA’s Tax Stringer & Trusts & Estates. He has lectured extensively on the proper utilization of financial products to protect and preserve assets to the NYSBA, the NYSSCPA’s, the ABA.  He is a source for the WSJ, Investor’s Business daily, Investment News, He Co-Authored a book for the American Bar Association, titled: “The Advisors’ & Trustees’ Guide to Managing Risk”.