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Life insurance is such a versatile tool. It can be used as collateral to secure a loan, protect your partnership or your business, ease wealth transfer and help your legacy to live on long after you are gone. But so many of these Life Insurance applications are focused on entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship comes with its fair share of uncertainty. One bad…
I love this question, especially when it comes to me from my high and ultra-high-net-worth clients: But Rickson, do I really NEED Life Insurance? You see, for the ultra-high net worth individual ‘need’ is evaluated differently. It’s not an affordability conversation. There is no opportunity cost because when you’ve got unending means and resources, tapping into one opportunity doesn’t mean…
When I get asked what I do, I tell people I’m a Life Insurance Advisor to High and Ultra High Net Worth Entrepreneurs. A common follow-up question is: Do entrepreneurs use Life Insurance differently? After having specifically served this segment for over 10 years now, I can confirm that entrepreneurs, especially High Net Worth entrepreneurs do indeed use Life Insurance…
I’ll go straight into a short but rather unfortunate case study. In 2003, I got introduced to Ritesh, a businessman who needed to procure Life Insurance cover worth US$ 2-3 million. The bank had asked Ritesh to provide some form of collateral to be able to continue extending the credit facility that they had been extending to him for the…
After years of sharing my content across different platforms, there’s one thing I never tire of hearing. And that is the phrase: I didn’t know THAT about Life Insurance! So, I thought I’d compile a short list of all the things you don’t know you don’t know about Life Insurance. Some of these Life Insurance nuggets might help you to…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the C-suite Dilemma. The article focused on the major personal finance challenges that C-suite executives face when they are ready to step down from the upper echelons of the corporate world. The article led to a few executives in my network reaching out to me to discuss their particular situations in closer detail.…
