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How to Use Life Insurance to Build Wealth

Life insurance can be used to build wealth across generations by providing a benefit to your surviving loved ones. The life insurance death benefit can pay estate taxes and preserve remaining assets. In this sense, life insurance as an estate-planning tool is designed more to protect wealth than to build it.

Permanent policies also have a cash value component, so you can borrow against that value if enough has accumulated. In this case, you are technically borrowing from the insurance company, so your cash value continues earning interest. It is important to note that any outstanding loan will be deducted from the death benefit if you die before repaying it. This means your beneficiaries would receive less money.

It is generally good practice to consult a financial planner and, eventually, a wealth manager to develop a financial strategy that meets your needs for building and preserving wealth.