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Making Compound Interest Work For You

 

“It’s really the best of both worlds when you’re a wealth creator.”

 

Albert Einstein once referred to compound interest as the eighth wonder of the world. Here’s the problem. Most people are so focused on not paying interest that their eye is completely taken off the ball. They completely ignore the concept of continually earning interest on their money. But there’s one foundational principle that we need to come to grips with and that is, we finance everything we buy. What does that mean? It means this, you’re either going to finance and pay interest to a bank or somebody else for the privilege of using their money or we’re going to pay cash and therefore give up interest that we could have earned, had we not paid cash. 

That’s the secret. We either pay up or give up. If you’re looking to realize true financial freedom for yourself, keep this in mind. It’s not what you buy, but it’s how you pay for it that really matters. You know, most people think there’s two ways to pay for something. Either finance or pay cash. Well, there’s actually three ways. So let’s take a look at them. If you finance your debtor, you’re working to spend, you have no savings. You earn no interest and you pay interest. Most people recognize or realize that that’s a bad thing. Maybe they were taught by their parents that if you didn’t have enough money to pay cash, you didn’t need the item. Or they saw their parents struggle to get out of debt. Either way, they move to paying cash. So they save, they avoid paying interest, but they earn no interest. And then they pay cash. 

There’s actually a third way, the wealth creator. This is where true financial freedom is really located. You save, you’re using other people’s money to maximize the efficiency of your money. You’re putting leverage to work for you. You save, you continuously earn compound interest. Then, when it’s time to buy something, you collateralize the purchase. Notice the key here in all three areas and all three methods. You still get the purchase. 

It’s really the best of both worlds when you’re a wealth creator. Let’s take a look at what that looks like. Let’s say you finally graduated college and you have your first real job. Everyone at work has new cars and you finally have the income to qualify for a loan. So what do you do? You buy a car, you go to the dealer, you get a loan. 30 days later, you get a coupon booklet. What you did is, you bought a car and now you have payments. So you dug a hole and you filled it up. Five years later, you got a five-year-old car. You don’t have a payment, time to buy another car. You just keep digging a hole and fill it back up. But notice over time, you never get above the financial line of zero. So what’s the alternative? Well, the alternative is to pay cash. Paying cash takes tremendous discipline because in order to pay cash, you have to save first. So you delay the gratification of a new car until you have enough money to pay cash. Then when it’s time to pay cash, you drain down the tank, you spend your savings and then you got to start over. 

Here’s the problem with paying cash. You still have payments because if you want to pay cash for the next car, you have to begin saving the day you bought the car. Then when you have enough money saved for another new car, five years later, then you drain down the tank. Again, notice over time, you don’t get too far above the financial line of zero. In fact, you’re not much better off than the spender. The only difference is, you lost interest along the way. 

The way that we teach our clients is to become the wealth creator. When you’re a wealth creator, you’re saving. Your money is continuously earning compound interest, but then when it’s time to buy something, you collateralize your purchase. What does that mean? You’re using your savings as security against the loan. You’re pledging it as collateral and you still have a payment, but understand, if you finance, you have a payment. If you pay cash, you have a payment. If you’re the wealth creator, your money never stops earning compound interest. That’s the key to true financial freedom. 

It’s like your money is literally in two places at one time because you’re able to make the purchase. You also are still able to earn interest on your savings because you’re never actually touching it. You’re using other people’s money. There are two main variables to compound interest, money and time. Every single time we drain the tank, we’re saying, “don’t worry, I could replenish that cash later.” What we often forget is that, time is a variable that we will never get back. 

Let’s take a look at an example. Let’s say you’re saving $5,000 per year. You’re earning 5% interest on that money. We’re going to look at this over a 30 year period. We’re going to drain the tank down four times by paying cash and we’re going to refill it every five years. So here’s what happens. We go and we buy a car. Now had we not drain down the tank, our money could have continuously earn compound interest for us. And at the end we would have $353,804. But because we decided to pay cash, and we did this four times. And then we finally realized it wasn’t the amount of income that we were earning that was holding us back. It was how we were using our money that was holding us back. We started to continuously earn compound interest on our money. Notice we only have $71,034. That’s a difference of $282,770. Keep in mind, this person figured it out. After 20 years, most people never figure it out. 

Here’s the problem with traditional financial planning. They completely ignore time. They’re so focused on earning a higher rate of return that they completely ignored the two factors of compound interest, time and money. Most people come to us thinking if only I could earn a higher rate of return, I could finally be financially free, but that’s not necessarily the case. 

Let’s say you could earn 7% on your money. If you go through this same pattern of delaying compounding interest, now you’re out $431,000. That’s still a big number but let’s take a look at what happens. If you could earn 3% on your money, that’s a big number. Keep in mind, we made six purchases over a 30 year period of $30,000. That’s $180,000. You’re losing just as much if you caught onto this 20 years down the road in lost opportunity. 

You see, it’s not what you buy, it’s how you pay for it that really matters. What is most important is to never jump off the compound interest curve. The key is to get on the compound interest curve as soon as possible and never jump off. That includes market losses. Although, financial advisors could promise a high rate of return, every time you experience a market loss, you’re jumping off the compound interest curve. We could see here just how detrimental that could be to your financial wealth.

 

 

 

 

How do I pay off my debt?

 

“Our mission as a company is to show people how to regain control of their money.”

 

The problem with getting in the debt cycle is that once you take on that first debt, it becomes difficult to save your income. In the case of an emergency, you’re forced to take on more debt and tie up even more of your income and make it even harder to save. In his bestselling book “Rich dad, poor dad,” Robert Kiyosaki’s foundational principle is to pay yourself first. But if you’re working that hard to pay off your debt, how in the world are you going to be able to pay yourself first? 

So here are some of the problems with consumer debt. First, it places an obligation on your future earnings. You lose the capital to purchases and the financing costs forever. As in, you’re giving up opportunity costs. When you make these purchases, you become a debtor to the creditor. Most importantly, you’re losing control. 

Our mission as a company is to show people how to regain control of their money. With this simple concept, showing them how to regain control of the financing function in their lives. We could make significant progress in showing you how to regain control of not only your money, but your financial future. 

If there’s only one thing you take out of this video, please let it be that “ It’s not what you buy, It’s how you pay for it that really matters.”  Because let’s face it,  every purchase we make is financed. You could either be a debtor, a saver, or wealth creator. Let’s go over the differences. 

This is what a debtor looks like. They have no money. So when they have to buy something, they have to finance it. They have no choice. They dig a hole and then they fill it up and then they dig another hole and they fill that up too. But notice, they never get above the financial line of zero. So what a lot of people do, is they save money in order to spend. They save, save, save, and then when it’s time to buy something, wipe out their savings in order to make the purchase. They keep doing this again and again. Over time they don’t stay above the financial line of zero. 

Then there’s the wealth creator. This is what we help our clients to become. They save as a matter of course. Then, when it’s time to make a purchase, they borrow against their money. They use other people’s money to make their money more efficient, but notice they never interrupt the compounding of interest on their money. Their money is always working for them and they are no longer working for money. That’s the power of becoming a wealth creator and that’s the power of controlling the finance function in your life. 

 

Interview With Brian Peters

 

 

 

“We just want to make people sleep better at night so that when they wake up in the morning, they can take a breath knowing that they’re going to be okay.”

 

 

Brian Peters:

Hi, my name is Brian Peters and I’m the CEO of Brian Peters consulting. I work with the top advisors around the world in all countries. Today I have the privilege and the pleasure of chatting with Tim Yurek of Tier 1 Capital in Pennsylvania. Now, Tim is a 35-year veteran in this industry and is really at the top of his game. We’re going to learn some great secrets and insights into financial services and the world today by speaking with Tim. So Tim, great to have you on. Thank you very much for joining and welcome.

Tim Yurek:

Well thank you, Brian. I appreciate the opportunity to chat with you.

Brian Peters:

I’m going to be asking you a number of questions. Some, that people have actually written in because they knew that we’d be speaking. So I’m going to start with question one, Tim. There’s so many different types of advisors. You’ve got advisor firms, investment firms, you got banks, you’ve got credit unions. You’ve got all sorts of types of advisors. So let me ask what makes you so unique or different?

Tim Yurek:

Well, you know, Brian, that’s a good question. What I found is, when you encounter a financial advisor, when you meet with them for the first time, they ask to see everything you have, and then the conversation usually goes somewhere to this point. “Well, everything you have needs improvement and my stuff is the best.” That’s because they’re focused on the product. What makes me different is when we sit down, we’re going to talk about how you’re using your money. We’re going to look for inefficiencies in how you’re using your money. To give you an analogy, let’s say you want to get better at golf, this is how the other guys would approach it. “Show me your golf clubs, your golf clubs stink. Come to my pro shop. I’ll sell you a new set of golf clubs.” My analogy is, “Hey, Brian, I don’t know if you need clubs, but I know the best way to improve your swing in golf is to take a look at the swing. So let’s go down to the range, take a look at how you can swing the club and then we can maybe make some recommendations.” What we do is we look for any inefficiencies in how you’re using your money and then make recommendations on how you can improve yourself financially.

Brian Peters:

Wow. That sounds much different than everybody else. So, what can you really help your clients achieve?

Tim Yurek:

Well, Brian, first and foremost, what we help our clients to achieve is having access to their money. That is the center of our planning because when you don’t have access to money, you have stress, you have frustration, you have anxiety, you can’t take advantage of opportunities. If a financial or a health emergency occurs, you don’t have access to money. That creates more stress and anxiety. Additionally, people come to us looking for confidence. You know, they’re rich on paper. They have a lot of money going through their hands, but they feel like failures because they don’t have access to their money. Our process shows them how to create greater access to their money. What they don’t realize is they have it within their power to achieve the freedom and the confidence that they want. They just don’t know how to do it.

Brian Peters:

That sounds great. That sounds like a real problem solver. So Tim, tell me, how did you come up with this process?

Tim Yurek:

Well, you know, Brian, I realized that following conventional financial wisdom doesn’t work for the client, it works for the financial institution. It works for the financial advisor, but it leaves your money inaccessible when you need it most. So I realized something had to change.

Brian Peters:

So, the change was, instead of taking on more things, the change was to use what they were currently using more efficiently. Is that right?

Tim Yurek:

Yeah, exactly. So, all we do is help people to analyze what they’re doing with their money and then determine whether or not it’s leaving their money accessible or inaccessible. Then if their money was inaccessible, we looked at a different way of doing things. So that their money can be accessible to them. Now, the financial institutions don’t like that, but it’s better for the client.

Brian Peters:

Now I’m going to ask you the $64,000 question. Why did you even bother trying to come up with this process? Why do it like this?

Tim Yurek:

I mentioned earlier that our clients come to us frustrated, stuck financially, and full of anxiety. Well, back in 1993, I was in the same spot. I was making good income. I was following conventional wisdom to the book and I didn’t have any access to money. I was stuck financially, and I was frustrated. I thought it was my fault because I wasn’t making enough money. The problem wasn’t that I wasn’t making enough money. How I was using my money was the problem.

Brian Peters:

Oh, that makes total sense. Do you think that today it’s mostly in America, or do you think that a lot of people are in that similar situation?

Tim Yurek:

Brian, it’s amazing. Every day we see people who are in the same boat. I just met with a client out in California. We did a virtual meeting and they were in the same boat. The husband said, “I’m making more money now than I’ve ever dreamed and yet I can’t pay my bills on a monthly basis. What’s going on, what’s wrong?” See that’s where people come to us. They don’t have confidence because they think it’s their fault. It’s not their fault, to a degree. It is because they’re following conventional wisdom, but they think they’re doing everything right by the book. They are, but it’s not in their best interest. That’s why they’re stuck, frustrated and full of anxiety.

Brian Peters:

I can tell you’re really passionate about fixing that for people too. That’s great, Tim, it’s all sort of sounding so simple and obvious and straightforward. So if that’s the case, why isn’t everyone doing it?

Tim Yurek:

You know, Brian that’s a great question. You know, the American actor Will Rogers has a quote. He says “The problem in America, isn’t what people don’t know. The problem in America is what they think they know that just ain’t so.” You know, what I found is when I meet with clients, they’re doing the best they can with the money they have, based on the information that they have. The problem is they don’t have all the information. So, one of the questions I ask my clients when I first meet them is, “What if what you thought to be true about finances turned out not to be true, when would you want to know?” They all say immediately. So, the problem is they don’t have all the information.

I met with a client and his wife the other day, he’s a business owner. He said to me during the meeting, why isn’t everybody doing this? I said, well, they haven’t met me yet. So we put this plan together for them and I just got a text the other day and he said, “Hey, we’re going to move forward with that plan and I just want you to know, last night was the best night’s sleep I’ve had in months.” That just gives me such pleasure to see that I’m making an impact for people on a daily basis.

Brian Peters:

Wow. That’s fantastic. That must’ve made you feel really, really great. That’s great.

Tim Yurek:

Absolutely.

Brian Peters:

So Tim, I can tell you’re really passionate about what you do. So when you wake up in the morning, what’s your mission statement?

Tim Yurek:

Well, Brian, it’s real simple. We just want to make people sleep better at night so that when they wake up in the morning, they can take a breath knowing that they’re going to be okay. They don’t have the stress of thinking that they’re living pay to pay or week to week. They don’t have the pressure of having to make a sale. We help our clients sleep better and we give them that confidence.

Brian Peters:

Great, fantastic. So Tim, I can tell you’re really passionate about what you do and you really do like helping people. Now, the world’s in a bit of a tough place at the moment for business people and everyday families. So I understand that you’ve got a special offer for any business owners who would like to chat with you over the next 30 days. Would you share that with us?

Tim Yurek:

Brian we’re going to offer a free, no cost, no obligation cashflow analysis for business owners to see if we can help them to free up some cashflow coming out of this pandemic. Additionally, for families, we’ll offer a free 30-minute phone conversation to answer any questions that they might have about their finances.

Brian Peters:

Great. So, anybody who’s really interested in a no obligation free 30-minute chat, just get in touch with Tim, and he’ll be more than happy to help you. So, Tim, it’s been really great chatting with you and great learning all about what you do. We wish you very well and continued success.

Tim Yurek:

Thanks, Brian. I appreciate it. Thanks for your time. You’re very welcome

 

 

How do I protect my money from inflation?

“As long as you keep your money in the whole life insurance policy, your money’s going to grow on a tax deferred basis.”

 

 

Inflation is a rise in prices of goods and services. Inflation reduces the purchasing power of our dollars. The problem is, the longer we hold onto our money, the less it can buy for us. Here’s an example. If you were to go into your backyard and dig a hole and bury $1,000 and leave it there for 10 years and after 10 years you go back and dig it up, what will you have? Well, it’ll be something that looks like a thousand dollars, but at 3% inflation over those 10 years, that $1,000 will actually only have the purchasing power of $744. The problem is not only will you have lost $256 of purchasing power, but you will have lost 10 years of time that you can never recapture. The government is destroying the purchasing power of our dollars every time they print money. Do you think our government will need more money in the future? If our government needs more money, there’s only two ways they can get that money. Number one is taxes. Number two is they can print more money.

There are six ways that whole life insurance can help protect your money against the effects of inflation. The first way is buying dollars for future delivery for pennies. Which means the premium you’re paying is pennies compared to the dollars you’re buying in a death benefit. What better way to protect your net worth than to buy discounted dollars for future delivery?

The second way is that your premium stays the same, but because of inflation over time, it’ll feel like less. For example, if you have a thousand-dollar premium at 3% inflation and 10 years, it’s only going to feel like $744. In this instance, you have inflation working for you rather than against you.

The third way that whole life insurance can help protect your money against the effects of inflation is what we refer to as multiple duty dollars. A lot of times clients will ask us, “Hey, I want to start saving, but I have to pay down my debt first.” We actually show them how to start saving today and how to pay their debt off quicker. How we do that is through whole life insurance. We take $1 that was just going to perform debt reduction and use it to reduce debt, to create an asset, to create a death benefit, to create a disability benefit, to create a long-term care benefit and provide retirement supplement. We took $1, that was previously doing one job, and got it to perform the job of 6 multiple duty dollars.

The fourth way whole life insurance can protect against inflation is dividends. Although dividends aren’t guaranteed, dividends typically increase as the policy matures. That’s an addition to the guaranteed growth within the policy. As interest rates rise in the market, the dividends in the policy typically increase. All other safe money products, as interest rates rise, the value of the product decreases because of the inverse relationship between interest rates and price.

The fifth way that whole life insurance can protect your money against inflation is through collateralization.  The loan feature, your loan against a life insurance policy, is actually a collateralized loan against your cash value. So literally your money could be in two places at once because you’re borrowing against your cash value and getting a separate loan from the insurance company. Our clients have found that this can help them to take advantage of tremendous opportunities that are created when the market crashes because they can borrow against their cash value. When the market is down, they can buy into the market and then sell when the market rises. They can then put the money back into their policy and then use the money the profits gained from that transaction to supplement their income or to buy another policy. Our clients have found this to be a tremendous tool to show them how to take advantage of downturns in the market rather than become victims of market volatility.

The sixth way that whole life insurance can help protect against inflation is taxes. As long as you keep your money in the whole life insurance policy, your money’s going to grow on a tax deferred basis. Additionally, you’re able to access your cash on a tax-favored basis. This is a huge advantage over other financial products.

In summary, life insurance can help protect your money against inflation by reducing or eliminating taxation. It also makes your money more efficient, think multiple duty dollars. Thus putting you in a position to take advantage of market volatility, rather than becoming a victim of market volatility.

 

 

Which is better- A 15yr or 30yr mortgage?

 

 

 

How often do we think about what will happen if we get sick, hurt, disabled, or lose our job?
These are just some of the factors that we need to consider when investing in real estate. Buying a house is an exciting but stressful time. With so many options out there, how do you know which one is right for you? In this week’s video, we dive in to explore the pros and cons of a 15-year mortgage vs. a 30-year mortgage. We also explain the difference between a bank’s equity and your own, and other factors to consider. Remember, if you need approval to access your equity, is it really yours?

“It’s important to choose the option that gives you the most liquidity, use, and control of your money.”

 

Which is better a 15- or 30-year mortgage? When shopping for a mortgage, it can be so confusing because there are so many options. Buying a home is one of the largest purchases you’re going to make, and many people get hung up on interest rates. Well, interest rates are important. It’s not the only factor you should consider when choosing the right mortgage for you.

One thing to consider that’s often overlooked is inflation. When you buy a house today, you get a mortgage, the dollars have more purchasing power today than the dollars that you’re going to use to repay the bank. So the longer you can take to pay back the bank, the less purchasing power the dollars are going to have at the time of repayment.

Let me give you an example. When I was younger, my parents would send me down to the bank to pay the mortgage. The mortgage was $52.80 and at the same time, they would send me over to the local hardware store to pay the utility bills. Our electric bill at the time was about $45 or $50 and I remember asking my parents, “how much was the electric bill was when we bought the house? ” And they said it was about $4 or $5 per month.

Think about what happened over 15 years. The electric bill increased by about five times, but the mortgage stayed the same. So my parents were negatively affected by inflation on the electric bill, but they were positively affected on the mortgage because the mortgage stayed the same and they were paying that mortgage back with dollars that had less and less value over time.

Conventional wisdom tells us debt is bad, so Americans want to get their house paid off as soon as possible. You think you’re making your position safer, but the fact of the matter is you’re actually making the bank’s position stronger. Let me give you an example. If you have a $250,000 house with a $200,000 mortgage balance, if the bank had to foreclose, it might be difficult for them to break even if they had to sell that house. But if you have a $250,000 house with a $125,000 mortgage balance, it’d be very easy for the bank to break even if they had to foreclose.

Don’t get us wrong, both you and the bank are building equity, but the nature of those equities are quite different. The bank has full liquidity use and control of their equity. Whereas you would need to qualify to access the equity in your real estate. The bank’s equity is cash and your equity is real estate equity, which requires bank approval in order for you to access your equity. So, basically if you need approval to access your equity, is it really yours? The next thing to consider when choosing a mortgage is control. Think about it. If your goal is to regain control of your money, then you should not be giving up your discretionary income to the bank. That’s money that you could be using for your lifestyle or savings.

You’re taking money that you have complete liquidity, use and control over and giving it to the bank and now they own and control that money. Which brings us to our third point. What happens if you become sick, hurt, disabled, or lose your job? You may have a lot of money in real estate equity, but now you have to apply to the bank in order to access that money and make no mistake. Banks are not loaning you money because you have equity in your real estate. They’re loaning you money on the premise that you’re going to be able to repay them. Anytime you want to tap into your real estate equity, you need to go to the bank, apply and prove that you could repay the bank.

It doesn’t matter if you had a great payment history on your previous mortgages. They don’t care if you actually paid extra on your previous mortgages. They have to consider whether or not you can pay back this new wealth. Let me give you an example. We have clients who had a $175,000 house with a $50,000 mortgage balance. The husband got sick and couldn’t work. They figured they could tap into their equity when they applied to do a refinance, even though the monthly payment was going to be lower, the bank declined them because they couldn’t prove that they could pay back the new loan.

So, all along the way, while this family was building their home equity, making their mortgage payments, they believed that they were making their financial position stronger and safer. But at the end of the day, it ended up hindering them. If you need to get approval from somebody else to get your money, is it really your money?

The fourth thing to consider when choosing a mortgage is what happens if the economic climate changes. For example, interest rates can go up or down. If interest rates go down and you’re locked in for 30 years, you could always refinance if it makes sense for you. But what happens if interest rates rise? Well, this happened actually in the early 1980s people who had money outside of real estate equity were able to take advantage of interest rates on CDs and money market accounts that were 15% or 16%. If you have money tied up in real estate equity and the CD rates go to 15% or 16% you can’t tap into your equity because the bank is going to charge you more than the 15% or 16% if you’re borrowing.

It’s really going to put you in a situation where you can’t take advantage of opportunities if those opportunities arise. This brings us to our fifth point when choosing a mortgage tax deduction. Not everyone will qualify for the mortgage interest deduction, but if you do, do you want all of it, none of it or some of it.
Most people want as much as they can get. With the 15-year mortgage, there’s less opportunity for tax deductions.

In conclusion, we’ve been trained to shop for mortgages using one criterion only, interest rates. While interest rates are an important factor, they’re not the only factor you should consider when choosing a mortgage. Let’s face it, if the banks made the same amount on all the mortgages, there would only be one option. It’s important to choose the option that gives you the most liquidity, use, and control of your money. Again, if the point is to regain control of your money, does it make sense to give that money to the bank and then still have to get approval to access your money?

 

 

How to save money without reducing your lifestyle!

 

 

 

Want to know how to save money without reducing your lifestyle? In today’s video, we offer tips on how you can tell if you’ve lost control over your money. An example is, needing permission or approval in order to access your money. How you use your money is more important than were your money resides. Watch the full video for 5 areas on where you should check to see if your money is leaving your control.

Our process shows them how to start saving now and pay off their debt in an efficient manner. “

 

You want to save more money but can’t afford to reduce your current lifestyle? Before we get started, let’s identify how you’ll know you’re not in control of your money. A lot of people have money on paper, but when it comes to accessing their cash, they have no liquidity use or control of that money. Here’s some examples. You’ll know you’re not in control of your money when you have to get permission or approval in order to access your money. For things like home equity, you’ll know you’re not in control of your money when you have to pay a penalty in order to access your money.

For accessing your retirement plans before age 59 and a half, you’ll know you’re not in control of your money when you have to pay a tax on the annual growth or gains of your savings or investments. For things like stocks and mutual funds, I think of capital gains and 1099 is a carrying charge for the privilege of owning those investments. Finally, you’ll know you’re not in control of your money when you move money from one account to the other and it doesn’t increase your net worth.

This occurs when you pay extra on debts for cars, installment loans, or credit cards. When searching for money that’s leaving your control, you should look at five areas. If you optimize these five areas, you’ll increase your access to cash, reduce your debt, and increase your net worth all without having to reduce your current lifestyle.

There are only three places where you can put your money.  Number one is tax deferred, but when you take the money out, it’s taxable in the future. Number two is currently taxable where you get a 1099 or a capital gains tax at the end of the year, and number three is tax-free, where you never pay tax on your money. Because you have a choice as to where you save your money. Paying taxes on your savings and investments is optional. Most Americans are saving any of their tax deferred or currently taxable accounts.

Let’s face it, the safest and sure way to maximize the efficiency of your money is to eliminate taxes. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep that really matters. We’re trained by wall street to focus on rate of return instead of control and efficiency. The problem with the wall street model is that it leaves your money at risk to market volatility and ever-changing tax rates and laws.

The second area we look at is how you choose to fund your retirement plan. Conventional wisdom tells us that from the day we start working until the day we retire, we should maximize contributions to our qualified retirement plans. The problem with this is it leaves our money inaccessible and in order to access it, we need to pay taxes, penalties, and sometimes fees. Also, we don’t know what the final cost is going to be to get our money in retirement so we don’t have access to our money now and we don’t know what it’s going to cost to get our money in the future.

The third area is mortgages. When buying a house, it may seem appealing to get a 15 year mortgage because the interest rates are lower, but by doing so, you’re giving up control of more of your monthly income to the bank and true, you’re building more home equity, but remember, you need to qualify in order to access that equity. By extending the term of your mortgage, you’re giving up less control to the bank, less control of your monthly income and less control of your net worth. We suggest you save in a place that you own and control, such as a specially designed whole life insurance policy built for cash accumulation rather than death benefit. For more information on how to choose the best mortgage for you, check out our video in the description box below.

The fourth area is paying for college funding. Tuition could cost more than a house, in some cases. It’s important to build a plan that not only pays for your children’s college, but keeps you on track for your retirement lifestyle. Nobody should have to choose between paying for their children’s college and funding their own retirement.

The fifth and final area where you give up control of your cash flow is how you choose to fund major capital purchases. A major capital purchase is anything you can’t fund using monthly cash flow. Things like cars, vacation or even a home. We finance everything we buy. By that I mean we either pay interest to a bank for the privilege of using their money or we pay cash and give up interest on our own money so we either pay up or give up. We teach our clients how to use whole life insurance to continually earn interest even after they make major capital purchases.

By using the policy loan provision, our clients are able to access their money, no questions asked in order to make the major capital purchase. By doing it this way, their money enjoys the benefits of uninterrupted compounding. Many people come to us and ask, should I pay off my debt before I start saving? Our process shows them how to start saving now and pay off their debt in an efficient manner.

By looking at the five areas, we’re able to help our clients find money within their current cashflow to begin saving now without having to reduce their current lifestyle. In order to do so, how you use your money is more important than where your money resides. Think of it in terms of golf. Where your money resides is the equivalent of the golf club. How you use your money is the equivalent of the golf swing. If you wanted to improve in golf, doesn’t it make sense to focus on the golf swing rather than the golf club? Regaining control of the money you’re losing to these five areas will leave you in a safer financial position where you’ll have more control, more access to capital, and less dependence on banks.

 

Are you too old to start using the infinite banking concept?

 

 

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.”     – Chinese Proverb

Do you find yourself wondering if you’re too old to start using the infinite banking concept? Well, unless you’re done buying things, you’re not too old to start. What you’re really wondering is whether or not the cost of insurance is going to be too high for you. While this is inevitable once you reach a certain age, this video will analyze just what that means and why it isn’t a bad thing.

You can’t regain control of your cash flow unless you control the banking function.”

 

Are you too old to start a policy to use for the infinite banking concept? We get asked this question every day and it’s really relative. People in their forties say, I should have started this 20 years ago. People in their sixties say, I should have started this 30-40 years ago. Well, the fact of the matter is, unless you’re done buying things, you’re not too old to start using the infinite banking concept. Why? Because the infinite banking concept puts you in control of your money. It eliminates the banks and puts you in control, meaning that you make the profits that the banks would have made. It’s like the old ancient Chinese proverb. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, but the second-best time is today, so therefore you’re never too old to start the infinite banking concept.

When someone comes to us and asks if they’re too old to start an IBC policy, what they’re really asking is, is the cost of insurance too high for me? They associate being older with a higher cost of insurance, which is absolutely correct. Understand this, yes, the older person is going to pay more per thousand of life insurance coverage than the younger person. There’s no way around that. However, because that person is older, the insurance company has to reserve more money sooner in order to make sure that they’re able to pay the claim. So those two issues cancel each other out. The higher premium is canceled out with a higher reserve, which by the way, infinite banking is all about the reserve or the cash value.

There’s a third piece going on that makes infinite banking actually more attractive for older people and that is the fact that they’re more likely to die. Because they’re more likely to die, there’s a probability that the cashflow management tool that you use to buy things is now going to pay off in a tax-free death benefit. Think of it this way, the life insurance company reserves more for an older person. They’re willing to pay more to the older person to surrender their policy. Let’s look at a practical example that’s comparing insurance policy’s on Olivia and me. So, Olivia’s 29 and I’m 57, let’s say we wanted to buy $50,000 of insurance paid up at age 100. The premium for Olivia is going to be much lower than the premium for me, but the amount that the insurance company has to reserve for every annual that’s paid is going to be greater for me than it will be for her. Why? Because they have 71 years to reserve for Olivia and only 43 years to reserve for me.

Let’s take a look at how Nelson Nash, the author of Becoming Your Own Banker, addressed the very question. Am I too old to start this? Nelson Nash was 52 years old when he discovered this concept and his situation was such that he was buried in debt and he was looking for a solution to the problem that he had created for himself with the banks at that time. He also knew that he was paying state farm insurance company about $400 per year on a whole life insurance policy. His cash value was growing by over $800 per year. It was then that he realized the solution to his problem. He needed to get his premiums as large as his mortgage. If he did, he’d be in a great position financially. It was at that point that he started to get as much insurance as he can on himself, his family members and anybody else whom he had an insurable interest. At one point he had over 44 life insurance policies.

You see, Nelson knew that owning cash value in those policies was as close as he could get to owning his own bank. Life insurance is not an investment, but it is a vehicle that you can use to become your own bank. It is a vehicle that you can use to manage your cash flows and pay the profits that you would a bank back to yourself. It took 14 years to get rid of the need for a bank in his life. After those 14 years, he borrowed against the cash value in his life insurance policies and never needed to borrow from a bank again.

Remember, life insurance is not an investment, but it is a great tool to be used to become your own bank. It is a great cash management tool where you can manage your cash flows to rid yourself of the need and the control that banks put on us. Basically the question is, do you want to be controlled by the banks or do you want to be in control of the banking function? You can’t regain control of your cash flow unless you control the banking function. Either you control the banking or the banks control you.Whole life insurance is the ideal cashflow management tool.

Let me give you a practical example. We have clients that started a business 20 years ago. At that time, they borrowed $2 million to capitalize their business. They use that capital to generate profits. They used the profits to pay back the loan. 10 years after they started the business, the loan was paid off and they decided to expand their business. They went back to the bank to borrow another $2 million, but the question becomes, whose money did the bank give them for the second loan? The bank gave them back their $2 million and charged them interest and a fee to do so.

They were not in control of the process, but understand with infinite banking, you are in control of the process and therefore in control of the profits. They broke the debt cycle which was borrow from a bank, capitalize their business, generate profits, and then use those profits to pay back loans. Now they’re borrowing against their cash value, capitalizing their business, generating profits and using those profits to pay back to their policy, their bank to generate profits for themselves.

In conclusion, you’re never too old to start using the infinite banking concept. You may not be able to get a policy on yourself, but there are certainly people in your life who you could insure, and you could own that policy and control the cash flow in that policy.

Why Are We So Passionate About Helping Our Clients?

What makes us so passionate about helping our clients become financially independent?

 

With over 35 years of experience in the financial services industry, we have seen how following conventional wisdom can lead you astray. What makes us so passionate about helping our clients become financially independent? Growing up in a family that lived paycheck to paycheck really changed Tim’s perspective on life. After following some great advice from Don Blanton and Nelson Nash, Tim realized, maintaining the efficiency of your money and maintaining the liquidity use and control of your money, will let you have financial freedom. It is our goal now to help as many people as we can, become financially independent.

 

“It’s become our mission to help our clients become financially independent by using these concepts so that they could release the financial stress and pressure and maintain or attain financial engines”

 

 

At tier one capital, our mission is to help our clients become financially free. We believe that you should be in control of your money, not the banks, not the financial institutions, and certainly not the government. Today we’re going to tell you a little bit about why we’re so passionate about helping our clients to become financially independent and why liquidity use, and control of your money is the key to becoming financially independent.

 

A lot of times when we meet with clients, they say, this is so simple and so different, how did you guys come up with this process? Let me tell you a little bit about my journey over the past 35 years in the financial services industry and in order to do so, I want to take you back to my childhood. Growing up in Wyoming, Pennsylvania in a blue-collar family, my dad worked in the coal mines and Thursday night was pay day. On Thursday nights my mom would get my dad’s pay, go to the grocery store and cash the check to pay bills for the next day. Sometimes, however, my dad would come home on a Thursday night and he didn’t have his pay.

 

So now let’s fast forward to the Christmas of 1993, sitting around my parents kitchen table with my family, reminiscing about the good old days. It certainly came up about the few times where my dad would come home without his pay. It was those times when my mom would load my brother, sister, and I into the car and sit in front of my dad’s boss’s house waiting for him to come home, to get my dad’s pay. Now, as a kid, I had no idea why we were there. I asked my mom, what were we doing there? She said, waiting for dad’s pay. I asked, why didn’t you just wait until the next day? She replied, we lived pay to pay, we needed that money to pay bills. It was at that point that I realized that I was living pay to pay, despite the fact that I was making 10 times what my dad had ever made, despite the fact that I had no dependence. I had a 15-year mortgage, and I was maxing out my 401k. 

 

Yes, embarrassingly, I had credit cards and there were even times when I had to go to my dad and borrow money to pay my mortgage. Why? Because I didn’t have any access to money. It was at that point that I realized that I was living pay to pay, despite the fact that I was making good money and I was following conventional wisdom by the book. I knew at that point that things had to change. It became, from that point forward, my mission to find ways to help people to become financially independent. I was able to figure some things out on own and then in 1995, I was introduced to a guy by the name of Don Blanton, who developed a whole financial planning system around making your money more efficient. 

 

With this system, we’re able to identify where our clients are giving up control of their money, unknowingly and unnecessarily. We look at the five areas of wealth transfer; taxes, mortgages, how you fund your retirement plan, how you fund college tuition for your children and how you make major capital purchases. It was Don’s system that proved that the process of how you use your money is way more important than where your money is. Then in July of 1997, I met a gentleman by the name of Nelson Nash. Nelson taught me that the importance of having access to capital when opportunities come about. Being in a position to take advantage of opportunities only comes to those people who have access to their money. Nelson taught me the importance of being in control of the financing function in your life. 

 

Think about conventional wisdom. It tells us to max out our 401k’s and put extra on our mortgage. But by doing those things, it only makes you look financially free on paper. You don’t actually have access to that capital. When opportunities or emergencies arise, our clients come to us, they look good on paper, they’re making great income, but they’re financially stuck because they don’t have access to capital when they need it most. 

 

It’s in the combination of maximizing the efficiency of your money and maintaining the liquidity use, and control of your money so you have control of your cashflow. You have access when you really need it. Then financial freedom can emerge. It’s become our mission to help our clients become financially independent by using these concepts so that they could release the financial stress and pressure and maintain or attain financial engines.

 

Tier 1 Capital knows there is another way to save for retirement – a system that pays you.

Using plans designed for heavy cash accumulation, Tier 1 will help you find where you are giving your cash away and teach you how to keep that cash at the tips of your fingers.

Our method creates a “pool of cash” that can be used to finance a home purchase, a business venture or a lifestyle through retirement. Using permanent life insurance, that pays dividends, you’ll be able to capitalize on privatized infinite banking. Using available savings and cash flow to build your own private bank can help you recover the funds you’ve “lost” paying interest to financial institutions.