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Life Insurance

Coverage-needs analysis, policy review, conversion analysis, protection planning, and advanced life-insurance strategies in one permanent planning hub.

Life Insurance Tools

Use the analysis tools to evaluate coverage, existing policies, and conversion opportunities. Then move into strategy modules when the planning objective involves accumulation, leverage, protection, legacy, or repositioning.

Life Insurance Calculators & Analysis

Core tools for determining coverage needs, evaluating existing contracts, and identifying planning opportunities.

Needs analysis

Life Insurance Needs

Estimate personal coverage needs using income replacement, debt, mortgage, education, final expenses, existing assets, and current insurance.

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Conversion analysis

Term Conversion Analysis

Evaluate a term policy's conversion window, available permanent coverage, current premium, conversion premium, and long-term carrying cost.

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Policy analysis

Existing Policy Analysis

Review policy type, premium, cash value, death benefit, guarantees, loan activity, performance, and potential restructuring considerations.

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Coverage analysis

Coverage Gap Analysis

Compare current life insurance against estimated protection needs and identify potential overinsurance or underinsurance.

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Policy comparison

Policy Replacement / 1035 Analysis

Compare an existing contract with a proposed replacement while highlighting surrender values, guarantees, new contestability periods, costs, and exchange considerations.

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Premium analysis

Premium & Funding Comparison

Compare premium schedules and funding patterns across alternative policy designs, including life-pay, limited-pay, and higher-funded cash-value approaches.

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Life Insurance Strategies

Planning modules for using life insurance as part of a broader protection, accumulation, retirement, or legacy strategy.

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Hybrid Leveraged Insurance Estimator

Estimate a five-year client funding commitment, illustrative leveraged funding, potential policy-loan distributions, and legacy values.

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Strategy

Cash Value Accumulation

Evaluate the use of cash-value life insurance for long-term accumulation, liquidity, access, protection, and legacy objectives.

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Strategy

Retirement Income with Life Insurance

Explore life insurance as a supplemental retirement asset alongside qualified plans, IRAs, Social Security, and other income sources.

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Strategy

Legacy & Wealth Transfer

Examine life insurance for estate liquidity, inheritance equalization, wealth replacement, and multigenerational legacy planning.

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Strategy

Policy Rescue & Restructuring

Review options when an existing contract is underperforming, overfunded, underfunded, heavily loaned, or no longer aligned with the client's objectives.

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Strategy

Premium Strategy Planning

Compare alternative ways to fund coverage while preserving liquidity, managing premium commitments, and matching the policy to the planning objective.

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PlanTrellis structure: The Life Insurance button on the main homepage should always open this hub. The Hybrid Leveraged Insurance Estimator remains a single shared tool, so both Retirement Planning and Life Insurance Strategies can point to the same estimator without maintaining duplicate versions.