Not Your Average Financial Podcast™

Not Your Average Financial Podcast™


Episode 286: Policy Loan Interest Rates are Rising… Party at My House!

February 24, 2023

In this episode, we ask:


  • Who needs to hear this?
  • Where else can you get an asset that grows every single year?
  • What did Pamela Yellen say?
  • Would you like to take her up on the challenge?
  • Where is the loan coming from?
  • What are the benefits?
  • What about getting the money out tax free?
  • Why does the insurance company charge interest in the first place?
  • How much interest do you have to pay on a policy loan?
  • When do you owe the interest to the insurance company?
  • What are the tax benefits of loan interest?
  • When you take out a loan against a life insurance policy, don’t you have to pay the interest back?
  • What about taking out your very first policy loan?
  • Why are rising interest rates a good thing for policy holders?
  • What is the difference between simple and compound interest?
  • What about calculating loan interest in arrears?
  • What about an example?
  • How is this different from an annual percentage rate or APR?
  • What is the actual cost of the loan?
  • What really matters?
  • What is the cause?
  • What is the effect?
  • What about another example?
  • How did Mark get that number?!
  • Is your policy continuing to grow?
  • What can you reasonably expect?
  • How are Bank on Yourself® type life insurance policies designed differently from other life insurance policies?
  • Who can properly design Bank on Yourself® type life insurance policies?
  • Are your policies designed properly?
  • Is the devil in the details?
  • What about non-direct recognition policy loans?
  • Who is breaking compound growth?
  • Would you like to meet with Mark or a colleague of Mark’s?
  • Who charges us interest?
  • Who gets access?
  • What grows?
  • What is the insurance company doing?
  • What is going on with loan interest rates?
  • What are the responsibilities of the insurer?
  • Would you like to hear Episode 128?
  • How might the insurers make the best choices for their owners?
  • What does the contract state about policy loan interest rates?
  • How is the rate calculated?
  • What is the actual APR?
  • What about variable rates?
  • How are life insurance policy loans different from other types of loans?
  • What are the key differences for life insurance policy loan rates?
  • Will the policy lapse?
  • What happens when the rates rise?
  • Why is Mark thrilled?
  • Will your policy grow faster, too?
  • What about a hypothetical scenario?
  • Does this translate into higher profit distributions?
  • How does this affect cash value?
  • Does a Bank on Yourself® type life insurance policy still work if you don’t take policy loans?
  • What are the benefits?
  • What do policy owners receive?
  • What happens when you pay down a policy loan?
  • What options do you have?
  • What happens with an outstanding policy loan balance upon the insured’s death?
  • How is your policy helping to add security and confidence to your future?