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Maximizing Retirement Income with Whole Life Insurance – Dr. Wade Pfau

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Life Insurance

Life insurance companies have premiums coming in every month, so they have new capital to purchase newer bonds. If i get poor returns early on, good returns later on, the average might look great, but i've already dug a hole for my portfolio. And so sequence risk, it amplifies investment risk. The other way life insurance can be incorporated into retirement income is as a buffer asset. It's this resource that's outside the portfolio, and that it's not correlated with a portfolio. So then rather than having to sell from the portfolio at a loss during bad market times, you temporarily take distributions from your buffer asset to build a bridge of cash.

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