Not Your Average Financial Podcast™
Episode 432: Why Does the SEC Chair Paul Atkins Have 54 Life Insurance Policies?
In this episode, we ask:
- What does he know, that we don’t?
- What is his net worth?
- What does the SEC chair do?
- What is the cornerstone of his wealth?
- Is this a quiet vote of confidence in life insurance over volatile securities?
- What protections does life insurance offer that stocks don’t?
- What is a state insurance department?
- What are consumer protections?
- What reserves are the insurance companies required to hold?
- What about reinsurance companies?
- What is a state guarantee association?
- Why 54 policies? Is this overkill?
- Is he diversifying?
- What is a life settlement?
- What’s the importance of having multiple policies?
- What are the benefits?
- What gives you tax-free access to cash?
- Did you know you are forced to take money out of qualified government accounts by a certain age?
- Do required minimum distributions (RMDs) exist in life insurance?
- What do retirement researchers like Roger Ibbotson, David Blanchett, and Wade Pfau say about life insurance?
- What is the efficient market frontier?
- What about the volatility buffer?
- What about taking distributions from the life insurance cash value during crashing stock values?
- How can a policy be “overfunded”?
- How many policies will be enough to buffer volatility?
- How about an example?
- If one policy is good, are 54 policies better?
- What is a modern tool for building resilience?
- What is the purpose of each policy?
- What about policies with various carriers?
- What about different terms on paid up additions (PUAs)?
- What about guarantees?
- Do you want to meet one-on-one?
- What about policy loan rates?
- How do the rates vary by company?
- What is a 1035 exchange?
- Would you like to subscribe to this podcast?
- Who needs to hear this?
- Would you like to meet with Mark or one of Mark’s associates?





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