If
you could create a positive cash flow that's potentially worth millions
of dollars over a lifetime without any luck, skill, or guesswork, would you do it?
When it comes to finance it's important to note that each one of us are all 1 of 3 different types of people: a Saver, a Debtor or a Wealth Creator. 99% of the public are either a Saver or Debtor because they have never been introduced to what you are about to learn.
As I tell everyone, this isn't a get rich quick scheme. It requires the discipline to save money so you can begin to harness the energy of that accumulated capital which can be used over and over again without ever interrupting the growth of your money. Ever!
When it comes to finance it's important to note that each one of us are all 1 of 3 different types of people: a Saver, a Debtor or a Wealth Creator. 99% of the public are either a Saver or Debtor because they have never been introduced to what you are about to learn.
As I tell everyone, this isn't a get rich quick scheme. It requires the discipline to save money so you can begin to harness the energy of that accumulated capital which can be used over and over again without ever interrupting the growth of your money. Ever!
This financial strategy does require patience and discipline to fully grasp but
if you are serious about increasing as well as protecting your net worth each year regardless of what happens in the economy, it's
important you commit to understanding how the Bank On Yourself or IBC (Infinite Banking Concept) strategy works.
One
of the best benefits of Bank On Yourself/IBC is that it's like having
your own bank but you won't have the need for a physical building or the need to hire
bank employees to manage your new personal financing business.
Why is this financial strategy so important?
Before I explain how it works, there is one very simple, but very important, concept you need to understand.
It's the law of uninterrupted compounding.
Compounding is a simple investment strategy in which you put your money in an investment that pays interest. At the end of the year, you take the interest you earned and reinvest it with your original stake. Now your interest earns a return too. The next year, you'll get a bigger interest payment. Then you can reinvest it, and so on…
A snowball is the best analogy for compounding. As you roll the ball through the snow, the surface area gets bigger. The more surface area on the snowball, the more snow it picks up. The snowball gains mass slowly at first… but pretty soon, you can't move it because it's so huge.
Compounding is slow and boring at first. But gradually, the interest you earn grows and your re-investments increase. And each year you leave your money to compound uninterrupted, the more it grows.
The key to compounding is to let it work over many years. The chart below shows how money grows when we grow it at 10% per year over 60 years. We call this the "hockey stick" chart, because the money grows slowly for several decades and then rapidly after about 40 years.
It takes 40 years for your $10,000 to grow into $411,000. That's the red arrow.
That's pretty good. But do you see what happens next? The growth of the account explodes.
By year 50, it's grown to just over $1 million.
By year 60, it's grown to more than $3 million.
In short, the power of compounding is most effective when you let it work over many decades.
The compounding process works only if you don't interrupt it… i.e., you don't pull money out of the account along the way.
The chart below shows what would happen if you pulled $150,000 out of your account in year 40 by making an early withdrawal.
As you can see, first, the balance in your account drops. That's the red line you see dipping below the black line. Second, there's less money in the account to produce interest. You've interrupted the compounding.
Look what it does to your wealth…
In year 50, you've got $713,000, instead of $1 million. And by year 60, you're left with $2 million, instead of $3 million. Your account balance is $1 million less in year 60.
Interrupting the compounding process by liquidating part or all of your funds in the single biggest destroyer of wealth.
These interruptions are not always easy to spot. For example, a decline in the stock market of 20% interrupts the compounding process in your 401(k) account. That's because your account balance dropped by 20%. And you have less money producing interest.
You could cash out part of your 401(k) or IRA to buy a new car or house or to give a gift. That interrupts compounding too.
Or consider a college fund for your kid. You start putting money into it when your child is born. It compounds and grows tax-free in a Coverdell or 529 Plan.
But when your child reaches college age, you liquidate the account to pay for your child's college. You've interrupted the compounding process after only 18 years. Funding college through 529 accounts is one of the largest wealth transfers a family makes because the growth on that account balance is gone forever once liquidated to pay for schooling.
These interruptions are not always easy to spot. For example, a decline in the stock market of 20% interrupts the compounding process in your 401(k) account. That's because your account balance dropped by 20%. And you have less money producing interest.
You could cash out part of your 401(k) or IRA to buy a new car or house or to give a gift. That interrupts compounding too.
Or consider a college fund for your kid. You start putting money into it when your child is born. It compounds and grows tax-free in a Coverdell or 529 Plan.
But when your child reaches college age, you liquidate the account to pay for your child's college. You've interrupted the compounding process after only 18 years. Funding college through 529 accounts is one of the largest wealth transfers a family makes because the growth on that account balance is gone forever once liquidated to pay for schooling.
The holy grail of finance is a vehicle or account that relentlessly compounds our money without interruption.
Bank On Yourself/IBC offers us this. We put money in a specially designed dividend-paying whole life insurance policy, and it compounds for the rest of our lives. We capture the power of uninterrupted compounding and we grow wealthier each year no matter what happens in the economy.
Pretty simple, right?
You
can borrow money from your policy. Then you can use it to buy
big-ticket items, such as cars or vacations. You can also use it to make
investments and start small businesses.
Not only is taking loans from your policy extremely easy and convenient, but by using policy loans to finance your expenses and investments, you can create a positive cash flow that's potentially worth millions of dollars over a lifetime.
This is what IBC (Infinite Banking Concept as it's originally known) advisors call "supercharging" your policy.
But what if we want to pay for a vacation? Or a car? Wouldn't that interrupt compounding?
If this money were in a bank account, yes, it would. When you pay for the vacation, you liquidate your savings account. The capital is not working for you anymore. You can't compound it.
Here is a rough representation of how saving up and paying for things looks graphically. First, you save up for five years, earning interest along the way. Those are the green lines. Then you liquidate your account to buy something… maybe a car. You save up. You liquidate. You always end up at zero.
Not only is taking loans from your policy extremely easy and convenient, but by using policy loans to finance your expenses and investments, you can create a positive cash flow that's potentially worth millions of dollars over a lifetime.
This is what IBC (Infinite Banking Concept as it's originally known) advisors call "supercharging" your policy.
But what if we want to pay for a vacation? Or a car? Wouldn't that interrupt compounding?
If this money were in a bank account, yes, it would. When you pay for the vacation, you liquidate your savings account. The capital is not working for you anymore. You can't compound it.
Here is a rough representation of how saving up and paying for things looks graphically. First, you save up for five years, earning interest along the way. Those are the green lines. Then you liquidate your account to buy something… maybe a car. You save up. You liquidate. You always end up at zero.
But with Bank On Yourself/IBC, you can still pay for these things AND compound your money uninterrupted.
How is this possible?
You save up money in your Bank On Yourself/IBC policy. But at any given time, the insurance company lends you the money you need (up to the amount you've saved in your policy). And you pay it back to the insurance company at your own speed. Remember, you can get these loans in under a week with no credit check or 30-page application.
The insurance company is willing to do this because it has nothing to lose. Even if you decide not to pay back the loan, the insurance company simply needs to deduct whatever you owe from the death payout when you die.
In short, because of the lending provision that comes with our insurance policies, if we need money, we can borrow it from the insurance company. And because we use the company's money, nothing interrupts our compounding.
Remember our uninterrupted compounding chart from earlier? Here it is again.
. Let's look at what happens when you use your Bank On Yourself/IBC policy to buy something.
You still save your money. But when you need to make a purchase, you don't liquidate your savings as you did with our example earlier. You take a policy loan from the insurance company and repay it.
Because you took out a loan and used the insurance company's money, your money continued to compound and grow… uninterrupted.
Now, five years later, you've repaid your policy loan. But the cash value balance in your policy is much higher because you let it compound uninterrupted.
Using a series of loans to take your fancy vacation or make car purchases throughout life, you never interrupt the compounding process.
The illustration below shows you how this process looks. The black line is a close-up of the "hockey stick" compounding curve. The blue dots represent points in time at which you take policy loans. The red lines represent your shrinking loan balance each year as you pay back your loans.
In short, by borrowing money from the insurance company, you can continue compounding within your policy even as you spend.
Borrowing money from banks, credit card companies, and other lenders is the most damaging thing you can do to your wealth. When you take a loan to finance a purchase, you start in the hole and claw your way back to zero every five years, giving interest to the bank along the way. You never get ahead. It looks like the chart below.
You can see how
devastating the action of interrupting the compounding process is. And
now you know how the average person destroys his or her wealth by doing
this throughout life.
Bank On Yourself/IBC is the only solution I know of that allows you to harness the power of uninterrupted compounding… but still lets you spend money when you need it.
Once you've set it up, you'll never pay cash or use a traditional loan for your big-ticket expenses again, because that would interrupt your compounding. You'll use a policy loan and pay it back over time.
Bank On Yourself/IBC is the only solution I know of that allows you to harness the power of uninterrupted compounding… but still lets you spend money when you need it.
Once you've set it up, you'll never pay cash or use a traditional loan for your big-ticket expenses again, because that would interrupt your compounding. You'll use a policy loan and pay it back over time.
John Montoya
JLM Wealth Strategies
Phone: (925) 386-6639
Email: john@jlmws.com
Web Site: www.CashValueBanking.com
John
Montoya, founder of JLM Wealth Strategies, began his career in
financial services in 1998 and is one of only 200 financial advisors in
the country who have successfully completed the training program
required to become a Bank On Yourself© Authorized Advisor as well as an
IBC practitioner with the Infinite Banking Institute. John holds a B.A.
from the University of San Diego. In 2013 John co-authored “The Secret
to Lifetime Financial Security” with Best-Selling author Pamela Yellen
along with other leading financial advisors and was added to the
National Academy of Best-Selling Authors website. In his free time John
is a youth soccer coach and also volunteers as chapter president in the
San Francisco Bay Area for the Society for Financial Awareness (SOFA) to
help increase financial literacy at companies, churches, and
organizations.
