He estimated that in the last five years he had spent more than $300,000 in legal and consultant fees, life insurance and other planning expenses to protect his children from having to sell the business to pay estate taxes when he dies.
Navigating the various options, though – transport costs, one-off payments, membership fees, life insurance policies – isn't easy.
Upfront fees, life care options, meal plans and a host of other variable costs can bewilder even the savviest individual considering this important next stage of life.
Because of agent commissions and processing fees, life insurance policies routinely under perform other investment options.
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"What are you really getting?" Mr. Becker, who has been keeping his business accounts at the Bank of San Francisco, a small local bank, for years, said it would be difficult to go back to his impersonal, fee-laden life as a big-bank customer.
Fee-only life insurance advisers aren't numerous.
Peter Katt is president of Katt & Company, a fee-only life insurance advising firm.
Written by Peter Katt, principal, Katt& Company, a fee-only life insurance advising firm.
