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How Ultra-Wealthy Families Use Life Insurance for Tax-Free Wealth Transfer
Lucas and Luna unpack a strategy that quietly moves hundreds of billions across generations: permanent life insurance used not for death protection but as a tax-sheltered investment vehicle. They walk through the mechanics of a properly structured irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT), why the ultra-wealthy fund policies with multi-million-dollar single-premium deposits, and how the policy's cash value grows tax-deferred while the death benefit passes entirely income-tax-free to heirs. Lucas cites the example of a $50 million policy inside an ILIT that can replace assets the estate…
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