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Strategies and Products
How many of the strategies or products listed below do you currently have as part of your financial life? If you are like most people, you may have several. There are many advantages and disadvantages of each strategy or product listed below. You deserve a complete and comprehensive evaluation of these strategies and products in order to assess their value to you and your family. What you may not be aware of is that you could be unnecessarily losing a significant amount of money and protection over your lifetime if the strategies and products listed below are not properly coordinated and integrated to enhance the advantages and minimize the disadvantages.
Through a comprehensive LEAP® evaluation these financial strategies and products will be shown either to be appropriate or inappropriate in your own financial situation.
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Taxable Compound Interest
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Here is an interesting comparison of three different customers of a local bank.
A 35-year old person has $50,000 in a Roth IRA at their bank earning 6%. Assuming they are in a 40% marginal income tax bracket and the Roth IRA continues to earn the same interest rate throughout, how much money will this person have at age 65?
The account would compound to $287,175 over the 30-year time period. And if it is cashed in at age 65, no tax would be due because qualified distributions such as this from Roth IRAs are income tax-free.
Another 35-year old customer at the same bank puts $50,000 in a tax-deferred fixed annuity appreciating in value at the same 6% crediting rate. Assuming this customer is in the same 40% marginal income tax bracket and the annuity continues to earn the same rate throughout the 30-year holding period, how much money would they have at age 65?
This person would have accumulated $287,175 as well. But if the annuity were to be cashed in at 65, $94,870 would have to be paid in income taxes (40% of the taxable gain above the initial $50,000 after-tax premium paid into the annuity).
Yet another 35-year old person opened an ordinary Certificate of Deposit at this bank (commonly referred to as a CD) with a $50,000 deposit, compounding the 6% interest in the account each time it renewed until age 65 without making any withdrawals. Assuming the same 40% marginal income tax bracket and a level interest rate throughout, how much money would this person have in the account at age 65?
This person would have accumulated $287,175, too. But there are more factors to consider than might appear at first glance. Taxes would have had to be paid annually along the way each year at the same 40% marginal rate, but this bank customer would have had to pay another cost perhaps without even being aware.
Although the three people above have the same amount of money at age 65, their individual costs to acquire the $287,175 in their respective accounts were quite different.
- The person with the Roth IRA faired the best. That’s because income taxes neither had to be paid during the accumulation period nor upon distribution at 65. This customer netted the full $287,175.
- The second person with the fixed annuity faired second best. After paying $94,870 in income taxes upon the lump sum distribution, this customer would be able to keep $192,305.
- The third bank customer with the ordinary CD compounding the interest experienced the highest cost. While paying $94,870 in income taxes, unlike the annuity owner, they were not paid out in one sum at age 65. Rather, taxes were paid out incrementally each year as the interest was earned. So this customer not only paid the tax each year but also had to pay the price associated with what that tax could have grown in value if it were allowed to grow in value throughout the remainder of the 30-year time horizon. Using the time value of money to calculate total true costs and assuming an after-tax investment rate of 6%, this person would lose an additional $111,896 in potential lost earnings on those taxes. In other words, since this person pays income taxes sooner than later, they experience a higher cost than the other customers. The true cost of this compounding strategy is actually $206,766. While having an account statement that indicates a balance of $287,175, this bank customer’s net financial position would really be $80,409, a gain of only $30,409 over this 30-year time horizon!
- One might ask, “What if the third bank customer paid income taxes out of CD account itself each year (netting for taxes) instead of compounding the interest?” They would have faired far better. While they would have accumulated $144,465 at age 65, they would have avoided the time value of money cost described above. Therefore, of the four possible ways to accumulate long-term savings, tax-free, tax-deferred, and netting for taxes out of the same account are all less costly than compounding interest in a taxable account. This fact is generally true regardless of the interest rate and tax rate assumptions used.
The LEAP SYSTEM® may help you eliminate some or all of the financial costs associated with owning a taxable compound interest account while still maintaining its benefits. LEAP uses a unique cash flow money strategy to help accomplish these goals.
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Dollar Cost Averaging
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Dollar cost averaging is a popular way for people to average out the cost of their investments over time. When prices are high, they buy fewer shares. When prices are lower, they buy more shares. However, one must recognize that a "dollar-cost-averaging" strategy does not, by itself, provide for risk management of the assets against market risk, death, disability or creditor protection. Therefore, one may need to protect the "dollar cost averaging" assets from these potential eroding factors. By using the cash flow money concepts and strategies utilized in the LEAP SYSTEM®, one may build in these most important protection elements.
Note: Any periodic investment plan does not assume a profit or protect against losses in declining markets. Dollar cost averaging involves continuous investment in securities regardless of the fluctuation price of such securities. Investors should carefully consider their financial ability to continue their investments during periods of low price levels.
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Dividend/Capital Gain Reinvesting
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Dividend and Capital Gain reinvesting is a popular method used by many consumers to build wealth overtime. However, dividend and capital gain reinvestment plans may experience income taxes, lost opportunity cost on those taxes, inflation, estate taxes, and management expenses. When having dividends and capital gains reinvested, consumers should look at strategies to protect those assets from these potential financial erosionary factors. This may be accomplished with little or no-additional-out-of-pocket outlay when using the LEAP SYSTEM® strategies.
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Prepaying a Mortgage
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It is true that prepaying a mortgage can save loan interest costs over time. What is not widely understood is that this savings may come at the expense of paying more income taxes and experiencing lost opportunity costs on the extra payments which may result in costs greater than the loan interest savings. The estimated total cost to the consumer is rarely explained or calculated by many financial institutions while the interest saved is always shown. Consumers should be careful to obtain a complete and proper analysis before spending their hard earned money on paying down their mortgage faster. The LEAP® process provides helpful information for you to review with your mortgage broker.
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Low Deductible on Insurance
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For auto, home, health and liability insurance, it is generally recognized as the best strategy in the long-run not to have low deductibles. Since premiums are generally higher for the low deductible coverage, this increased premium cost may result in funding your own insurance coverage in the long run, especially if you do not experience many claims. You should check with your properly licensed casuality broker or insurance carrier to assess the appropriate premium rates for various deductibles on your insurance policies.
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Gifts to Minors
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LEAP SYSTEMS, Inc. has found that special gifting accounts for minors may not be the best overall strategy for funding college education capital. For the few dollars it may save in income taxes, the restrictions and lost opportunity costs can potentially be significant. Restrictions on the availability of money and the loss of protection against death, disability and future income taxes make this strategy a weaker choice for most consumers than other more productive choices. A program that pays little or no income taxes, maintains control over the assets, potentially keeps the assets out of the hands of creditors, and completes the plan in the event of death or disability would be superior. Consumers should consider all of the alternatives for funding college tuition and other costs before selecting special gifting accounts for minors.
The LEAP® process provides a complete and comprehensive approach to college education funding techniques that provide a full range of benefits for consumers.
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Tax Deferral Strategies
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The LEAP® process can show you why, in many cases, a tax-deferral strategy may be ineffective for wealth building and protection opportunities. Tax-deferral strategies may not avoid income taxes, but only postpone them, or actually cause a larger tax later if one's marginal tax bracket increases. One should also consider reducing or avoiding income taxes as an effective financial strategy than just postponing taxes. In addition, many consumers are never provided any information about the potential estate distribution and estate conservation problems of a tax-deferred asset strategy or program.
All of the benefits and potential disadvantages of a tax-deferral strategy or product should be evaluated before its implementation. Every consumer needs to review other alternatves with the same outlay before allocating any dollars to a tax-deferral program. It may be that a tax-deferral program makes sense and is the best alternative, but until a comparison with a fully intergated program is provided, one may not come to the conclusion that a tax-deferred program is always best.
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Buy Term and Invest the Difference
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Term life insurance plays an important role in protecting individuals, businesses and families from the premature death of a breadwinner or key person. In many instances, term life insurance is chosen because of its apparent low cost. Like most things in life, if something is low cost, there usually is a reason. Contrary to the public understanding, a long-term strategy of "buy term and invest the difference" can have significant costs to the insured and the ultimate beneficiaries.
The LEAP SYSTEM® helps consumers understand that term life premiums and its lost opportunity cost can be very expensive over the life expectancy of any consumer who employs such a strategy. The potential loss of the death benefit of the term life policy may leave the invested difference account vulnerable to income taxes, estate taxes, market declines, and liquidity problems.
Although term life insurance plays an important role in many financial situations, one must consider all of the factors associated with the cost of the premiums over time, the potential loss of the earnings on those premiums, and the ultimate possible loss of the death benefit. If the term life policy has expired and the stock market is perhaps in a downward cycle at the time of the ultimate death, the effects of this strategy can be financially damaging to heirs.
For a more complete understanding of this subject, this approach educates consumers on all aspects of various forms of life insurance coverages. No particular type of policy is uniformly the best in all circumstances. Each type of insurance policy must be evaluated and selected in an appropriate evaluation process such as the LEAP SYSTEM.
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Series E/EE Bonds
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The safety and tradition behind these financial products has played an important part of America's growth and development. The payroll deduction of Series E/EE Bonds by employees in corporate America has been a popular way to forced savings for the future. No one can deny the value these bonds have contributed to many Americans over the years. For certain investors, these bonds have great appeal.
There are features of these financial products that need explanation for the overall understanding. These financial instruments earn what is called "phantom income," that is, they accrue interest rather than currently paying it out. The consumers' inability to use this income or interest during the bond holding period prevents the use of the interest for other financial needs, wants and desires that they may have. Therefore, one may lose the opportunity to build additional wealth or protect those assets from eroding factors.
Money that is idle may be less productive than money that is being used for other financial needs and objectives. One should assess the advantage of receiving a benefit from one financial product and weigh it against the loss of benefits that may be derived from an alternative product before making a final decision in this area.
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Non-matched IRA or 401(k)
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Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA) and 401(k)'s are used to save money for retirement. They are one of the most powerful tools in the financial arsenal for this purpose. Unfortunately, at the same time many people overlook the disadvantages and fail to protect their hard earned money.
LEAP SYSTEMS, Inc. explains that for many Americans, these tax-deferred strategies may contain problems due to their inability to prevent eventual large income tax payments, estate taxes, and potential losses due to market fluctuation.
Since these accounts are usually long-term in nature, inflation, market fluctuation, and taxation can significantly reduce the purchasing value of the accounts. Americans may lose considerable amounts of their account values because they may not have been made aware of the possible economic dangers both before and after retirement or death.
In order to be most effective, these accounts need to be properly structured and coordinated and integrated with other financial strategies and products in order to protect them. Otherwise, the accounts will always be vulnerable to possible losses. One must make sure that their retirement nest egg is safe and secure since this is the money one must live on throughout the remainder of the years.
The LEAP SYSTEM® provides consumers with 401(k) plans a way in which to protect the assets from many different types of erosion, while at the same time providing a balanced retirement outlook.
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15-Year Mortgages
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Why do banks usually charge less interest for a 15-year mortgage than for a 30-year mortgage? Is one mortgage cheaper than another? Actually, they may be identical in cost. In order to get the cheaper loan interest rate, you have to pay a higher premium for the monthly payment. If one took the difference in the payment and invested it into an IRA, Roth IRA, paid off credit cards, or put it into a guaranteed annuity; there is a good chance that they would have more money at the end of the 15-year period. No guarantees of course, but one needs to consider the alternatives.
For a large percentage of American consumers, the net cost of a 15-year mortgage is greater than a 30-year mortgage given similar or even lower interest rates. Although one can save actual interest costs with a 15-year mortgage, after considering the income taxes paid and the lost opportunity costs on the invested difference in monthly payments, a 30-year mortgage may actually be cheaper in the long run.
A 30-year mortgage may still be paid off in 15-years, and potentially still have more money left over compared to a 15-year mortgage, if the difference in monthly payments had actually been faithfully saved in a conservative alternative. In addition, the lower monthly payments of a 30-year mortgage versus the higher monthly payments of a 15-year mortgage may provide the consumer with more safety in the event of loss of job, a declining real estate market, or for any other unforeseen expenses that may come along that need to be made.
The LEAP SYSTEM® provides consumers with information that can be helpful to make intelligent decisions when talking to their banker or mortgage broker.
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Credit Card Debt
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High non-deductible interest costs makes using credit cards for loans a serious wealth eroder. There is no doubt that in our fast paced society, credit cards are a convenience to use, but they should be avoided for borrowing large sums of money over a long periods of time whenever possible.
Before using your credit card for major loan purposes, consider using other sources of loans such as a home equity loan, a life insurance policy loan, or a personal family loan. These sources are far superior to credit card debt. When using credit cards for loans, you are also paying for people who don't pay since it is built into the loan interest rate.
The LEAP SYSTEM® has a cash flow management system that can assist consumers to save and lower expenses if needed at all.
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10-Year or 20-Year Term Life Policies
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These specific term life policies are designed to provide insurance coverage for a period of 10 or 20 years. In many cases, they serve as the best protection for beneficiaries in the event of a premature death to the insured. Although term life insurance policies have a low premium in the early years, at older ages the premiums increase and can become very expensive and in some cases prohibitive.
When term life insurance policies expire or are cancelled, their overall cost to the insured and beneficiaries is made up of the following factors:
- total premiums paid
- plus the potential earnings lost on the premium payments
- plus the loss of the death benefit
- and any estate assets lost to taxes or other eroding factors brought about by one's death
The LEAP® process provides fair and balanced comparisons as to the actual overall costs of term life insurance policies. Make sure you completely understand the total costs associated with term life insurance policies, especially in the long run before making any long-term decisions in your insurance portfolio. See our complete explanation below.
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Sample Product Problem
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Strategies and Products Level 10 or 20 Year Term Life Insurance Policy
Suppose a male, 30 years old, purchases a 20-year term life policy with a guaranteed annual premium of $395 for $500,000 of coverage from a certain life insurance company. This premium may appear to be low cost, but there are other important facts to consider before making that conclusion.
The total premium cost over the 20 years is $7,900. At the end of the 20-year term period, the policy has no cash value upon termination. Therefore, these term premiums provided only protection but no cash value. Since term premiums provide no cash value, he should consider what the time value of money will be on term premiums paid if he lives beyond the term life insurance period.
In our example above, if he had invested the $395 for 20 years at his hypothetical net investment rate of 10%* (such as in his Roth IRA), it would have grown to $24,886 by age 50. Therefore, the term policy has a premium and time value of money cost of $24,886 and not just $7,900.
The client above planned to cancel the death benefit of $500,000 at age 50. Therefore, if the client were to die at age 51 or thereafter, the family could incur additional costs such as income taxes, estate taxes, probate fees, court costs, legal fees, accounting fees, and possibly a forced sale of a business or other asset. Where these costs are likely to occur in any significant amount, a permanent life insurance policy may be the more appropriate choice or better alternative.
The LEAP process estimates the total costs of your individual term or group life insurance policy over your lifetime. If appropriate and where needed, LEAP® will show you strategies designed to help you acquire an equivalent amount of permanent life insurance coverage at no additional out-of-pocket outlay for premium.
*For illustration only; does not represent any specific investment. Each consumers long-term net savings or investment rate establishes the rate used for the time value of money.
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Long-Term Investing
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Many sales people, writers, and investment companies claim that one should buy and hold investments for the long-term. However, not every investment product works effectively the longer one holds it given equal rates of return assumptions. The potential management fees, income taxes, lost opportunity costs, inflation, and estate taxes can substantially reduce or negate much of the growth some investments create in the long run. These facts may necessitate the use of other cash flow techniques in the planning process in order to protect any investments from these potential eroding factors.
Most investments have choices as to what to do with dividends, capital gains, and interest. The LEAP SYSTEM® can show you how to coordinate and integrate these choices to help protect the investments from income taxes, estate taxes, creditors, and other eroding factors.
Note: Investments involve market risk, including fluctuating returns and possible loss of principal.
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Survivorship Life Insurance
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Survivorship life insurance is a product used mostly for estate tax planning purposes. Where estates are large but illiquid, this financial tool can be effective for raising necessary funds to conserve the estate from taxation. Many attorneys and CPA's recommend this type product for the estate tax purpose and usually recommend that it be placed into an irrevocable life insurance trust. Survivorship life works best for ages 65 and over.
However, for ages 65 and over, survivorship life insurance may have some serious consequences for the insured and their heirs that sometimes get overlooked. One such risk is whereby one spouse lives to or beyond life expectancy. Since the policy doesn't pay until the second of the spouses to die, such a long time frame may reduce the advantage of the death benefit as an effective way to pay the estate tax.
A more serious consequence may occur when one spouse dies at an early age (example age 50) and the other spouse lives to an old age (example age 90). The loss of not paying a death benefit on the first spouse's death has a large lost opportunity cost to the eventual heirs. In either of the two cases just mentioned, a significant portion of the estate assets may be lost for the heirs. These losses occur because the future value of the premium payments and/or death benefits not paid out at the first death may be equal to or greater than the value of the death benefit. These costs should always be explained and clearly calculated to consumers before considering survivorship life insurance as an estate planning strategy.
The LEAP® process offers consumers many choices in the selection of a well-designed estate plan. We seek to build a plan that will work under almost any scenario, and not just a few. Only a fair and balanced analysis can provide such a complete appraisal to select the most appropriate estate-planning tool.
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Low Yield Savings Account
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The combination of income taxes, lost opportunity cost on taxes, and inflation can negate or offset the interest earnings one accrues on low yield savings accounts in the long run. These accounts should primarily be used for short-term liquidity and convenience. The LEAP SYSTEM® can help you select other more appropriate savings vehicles or insurance products for your long term savings needs that can potentially lower your income taxes, avoid lost opportunity costs and combat inflation.
Note: Bank deposits are FDIC-insured, while other investment vehicles are not FDIC- insured.
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The PS&G Model®
 You probably own a variety of financial products and have made many financial decisions. Each product and financial decision most likely has been made individually and without much thought of integrating them into a skillfully coordinated and efficient plan. Without a financial model to assess, evaluate or measure each financial decision, your money may become uncoordinated, inefficient and unproductive.
Get your financial life organized...
The LEAP SYSTEM® has built the PS&G Model®. It is a financial model that contains all aspects of your financial life. It provides you with a full view of your financial situation categorized into three components of Protection, Savings, and Growth, which makes it easy to understand and follow. You can participate in the evaluation process by having this unique tool available to you.
Educate yourself...
An educated consumer is always in a better position than one who is unsure and insecure about the money decisions they are forced to make in life. The PS&G Model provides you with a tool to measure and coordinate each money decision with the purpose of achieving financial independence. As a LEAP SYSTEM licensed professional, we will show you how to use this model to measure and compare financial decisions you make in order to choose the one that you feel is most appropriate.
Benefits of Using the PS&G Model®
Instead of making financial decisions one at a time in an isolated manner (micro), we advocate financial decisions based on an organized, coordinated and integrated model (macro). By using the PS&G Model, your assets and financial decisions are:
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Alternatives to LEAP
What are your alternatives to LEAP? Your financial life may well be managed by one of the four alternatives listed below. Let's look at each one of the alternatives and see if they are what you really want and need.
Day -To-Day Decision Making
The results of doing day-to-day decision making can be devastating. People who never examine the big picture tend to live day by day and may lose control over their financial lives. In a complex society such as ours, people who do not look at the effect each decision creates, have less chance for financial security.
Periodic Decision Making
This type of periodic decision making usually keeps people one step behind where they should and could be. Periodic decision making is part of the /do-it-yourself/ mindset. It lacks an understading of the importance of having professional assistance.
Needs Based Decision Making
Needs based decision making focuses on meeting needs such as saving for a house, college tuition costs, retirement income, paying estate taxes, disability income needs, etc. This kind of decision making usually takes place when the need is present or obvious.
Traditional Financial Planning
Conventional financial planning focuses on trying to meet predetermined needs and goals. The methodology used in this approach involves substantial number crunching and monitoring of mathematical variables such as interest rates, investment rates of return, inflation rates income tax rates and future income needs.
For many consumers, the right system for building wealth protection is...
LEAP - Lifetime Economic Acceleration ProcessTM
LEAP SYSTEMS, Inc. believes that the best choice that you can make in your financial life is the use of the LEAP SYSTEM® . Give yourself this opportunity for wealth, happiness, and success. After all, you deserve the best.
The Lifetime Economic Acceleration Process seeks to protect your wealth from being eroded by income taxes, inflation, market fluctuation, fees, claims from creditors, and other costs. The main objective of the Lifetime Economic Acceleration Process is to build wealth without the limitations of predetermined needs and goals.
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