Instructions For Preparing Proposals

Here are the general instructions to guide the team preparing insurance proposals. The goal is to provide better performance for the clients while using conservative assumptions.

Inputs

  • client names: John Client and Jane Client (unless actual names provided)
  • health: standard (not preferred)
  • tobacco: nonsmoker
  • annual deposits
  • investments
    • realization rate for capital gains of 25%

Illustration output

  • show all years
  • export all columns to an Excel spreadsheet

Company-specific

Industrial Alliance

  1. In the illustration output, suppress the Investor Profile page
  2. Investment Bonus
    • use no bonus (Low Fees option)
  3. Alternative Investment
    • use a realization rate on capital gains of 25% (the default of 100% makes the tax sheltered growth inside insurance look better than in real life)
  4. Shuttle Account
    • lowest possible interest rate (ideally 0%)
    • results after tax

Wealth Maximizer

  • use Superior Minimization (not the Face+Fund with Wealth Maximizer option, which inflates the death benefit and insurance charges)
  • When running a Wealth Maximizer, set the minimum death benefit to the premiums (e.g., for deposits of $200,000/yr for 3 years, set the floor to $600,000)

Level Cost of Insurance

  • use the option with surrender charges (and lower cost of insurance)

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