Premium Financing Leveraging Assets for Wealth Transfer Planning

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Premium Financing

Leveraging Assets for Wealth Transfer Planning


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The Voya® Life Companies and their agents and representatives do not give tax or legal advice. This information is general in nature and not comprehensive; the applicable laws change frequently and the strategies suggested may not be suitable for everyone. Each taxpayer should seek advice from his or her tax and legal advisors regarding their individual situation.

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There are risks involved with premium financing that you should consider. Loan interest rates may rise and may force you to liquidate assets to pay such rates, or be at risk of loan default. Similarly, the lender may require additional collateral if the value of posted collateral falls and/or if policy crediting rates drop. Finally, if you have failed to repay at loan maturity, perhaps because a planned exit strategy failed, the loan would default. If the loan defaults, the lender may foreclose on collateral, including the policy, and negatively affect your credit rating.


Are you planning to leave the full value of your estate as an inheritance to your children or grandchildren?

A Question


Are you planning to leave the full value of your estate as an inheritance to your children or grandchildren?

For many people, the answer is: “It Depends!”

A Question


Many things are uncertain:

• Growth of assets

• Taxes and expenses for estate

• Ability to create liquidity at death

How much will be left to pass on?

“It Depends!”


You’ve successfully accumulated enough wealth for financial independence.

Your success in business and investing may create even greater wealth before you die.

As your wealth grows, the potential cost of transferring that wealth to your heirs also grows.


You want to pass on your extra wealth to your children and grandchildren without reducing the value of their inheritance to pay taxes.

But not at the expense of reducing your ability to continue investing and growing your wealth.


Is there a way to potentially preserve the inheritance for your children without putting your own financial security at risk?


Is there a way to potentially leverage the value of your business or investments without giving up all control?


Yes!

Premium Financing could help you meet both objectives.


A Leveraging Tool to potentially: Identify a Source of Funding for Large Policies

Provide Estate Liquidity for High Net Worth Clients

Reduce Gift Taxes

Introducing Premium Financing


Premium Financing, simply stated, is borrowing money from a bank to pay premiums on a large life insurance policy designed to provide liquidity at death and preserve assets for your heirs.

Premium Financing is a strategy that uses a life insurance policy to potentially create or increase the amount of money you can pass on to your children and grandchildren.

Premium Financing can help you create funds to pass on to younger family members without giving up all control of your assets and can reduce annual gifting.

What Is Premium Financing?


Life insurance can be an effective tool to transfer assets to younger family members for two reasons:

Why Use Life Insurance?


Life insurance can be an efficient way to transfer assets to younger family members for two important reasons:

Reason #1–Potential For Growth

Policy death benefits generally exceed the total premiums paid.

The difference between the death benefit that is available at the insured’s death to be paid to the beneficiaries and the premiums paid represents additional assets.



Life insurance can be an efficient way to transfer assets to younger family members for two important reasons:

Reason #1–Potential For Growth

Policy death benefits usually exceed the total premiums paid.

The difference between total premiums and death benefits represents additional assets that are paid to policy beneficiaries.

Reason #2–Tax Benefits

Life insurance death benefits are generally income tax free.

Policy death benefits can also be structured to avoid estate taxes.



Premium Financing has five steps:

How Does the Strategy Work?


Premium Financing has five steps:1. Create an ILIT.




2. Apply for a loan from a Premium Financing Lender.

The ILIT trustee will pledge the life insurance policy and possibly other collateral for the loan.

Depending on the lender, the amount of the loan, and your financial status, other collateral may be required from you (e.g. a letter of credit, personal guarantee and/or other assets such as securities).





3. The Trustee of your ILIT uses the loan proceeds to purchase a life insurance policy insuring your life by:

Paying premiums from borrowed funds

Managing policy cash values as needed





3. The Trustee of your ILIT uses the loan proceeds to purchase a life insurance policy insuring your life.

4. Each year, depending on the arrangement, the Trustee either pays interest on the loan or the interest is accrued and added to the balance of the loan.





3. The Trustee of your ILIT uses the loan proceeds to purchase a life insurance policy insuring your life.

4. Each year, depending on the arrangement, the Trustee either pays interest on the loan or the interest is accrued and added to the balance of the loan.

5. At your death, the ILIT uses part of the policy proceeds to repay the remaining loan balance; all remaining proceeds go to the ILIT.



Policy premiums can grow into larger and generally income tax free death benefits.

The ILIT can be structured to protect policy death benefits from estate taxes.

You generally retain control of your assets (though you may have to pledge some assets as collateral); you do not have to liquidate assets to pay insurance premiums.

You may be able to avoid taxable gifts. If there are enough trust beneficiaries, you can potentially qualify an amount equal to the interest payments as annual exclusion gifts.

Potential Premium Financing Advantages


Interest Rate Risk–interest rates fluctuate over time; if interest rates become too high:

Additional collateral required

Possibility of default and surrender of the policy

Reduction of net death benefit to ILIT beneficiary

Collateral Requirements

A personal guarantee and/or the pledge of additional assets

Letter of Credit may be required

Arrangement Fees

Fees required to process loan

Fees cannot be financed

May require gift to ILIT

Some of the Premium Financing Disadvantages


David Dawkins is 50 years old and a Preferred non-smoker.

He has an estate worth $20 million.

Needs $5 million Death Benefit for Estate Liquidity.

He has a limited number of heirs to whom he wishes to gift.

Premium Financing in Action: David*

* These hypothetical results are based on current assumptions, are for illustrative purposes only and should not be deemed a representation of past or future results. The results would generally be lower using guaranteed assumptions, including earlier policy lapse and the inability to take any assumed policy loans or partial withdrawals. This example does not represent any specific product nor reflect sales charges or other expenses that may be required.


David has his attorney draft an irrevocable life insurance trust (“ILIT”).

David Dawkins*



David has his their attorney draft an irrevocable life insurance trust (“ILIT”).

Working with a bank, the ILIT Trustee arranges to borrow $284,202 a year ( for seven years) to finance the premiums.

David Dawkins*



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Working with a bank, the ILIT Trustee arranges to borrow $284,202 a year to finance the premiums.

The ILIT purchases a cash value life insurance policy with an initial death benefit of $5 million and an option 3 death benefit (face + premium).

David Dawkins*




Working with a bank, the ILIT Trustee arranges to borrow $284,202 to finance the premiums.

The ILIT purchases a cash value life insurance policy with an initial death benefit of $5 million and an option 3 death benefit (face + premium).

David makes a one time gift to the ILIT of the loan’s arrangement fees.

David Dawkins*





The ILIT purchases a second-to-die policy with an initial death benefit of $5 million and an option 3 death benefit (face + premium).


David will gift to the ILIT an amount equal to the annual interest due on the loan each year.

David Dawkins*





The ILIT purchases a second-to-die policy with an initial death benefit of $5 million and an option 3 death benefit (face + premium).


David will gift to the ILIT an amount equal to the annual interest due on the loan each year.

Upon his death, the loan balance is paid off and the net death benefit ($5 million or more) is paid out to the David’s ILIT.

David Dawkins*



By using the Premium Financing technique, David Dawkins has potentially been able to accomplish the following:

What Have We Accomplished?


By using the Premium Financing technique, David Dawkins has potentially been able to accomplish the following:

Created a large Death Benefit for Estate Liquidity;



By using the Premium Financing technique, David has potentially been able to accomplish the following:


Reduced the on-going tax costs of Annual Gifting;






Retained some control (through the ILIT terms) of how policy proceeds will be used after their deaths;






Retained some control (through the ILIT terms) of how policy proceeds will be used after his death;

Death benefits may be paid to the ILIT both estate-tax and income-tax free.



Your Voya representative can show how

this idea might work for you.

Ask for a proposal customized to fit your situation.

Premium Financing Leveraging Assets for Wealth Transfer Planning

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