You get the same tax-free benefit from a simple mutual fund. You can borrow against it, just like you can borrow against a whole life policy without any tax costs to that borrowing. When you die and what's left is given to your errors, that also passes tax-free. Another cool trick with the taxable account is to donate your appreciated shares to a charity. And then you don't even have to wait 30 days like with tax-loss harvesting. The two main ways are to either hire someone else to do it or to do it yourself.