(A)ESOP's Fables - The Income and Estate Tax-Free ESOP
Papa Has a Brand New Bag
All in the Family – Introducing Family Owned Life Insurance™ (aka FOLI™)
TAKE A CHANCE ON ME! PART II - Embracing the Magic of Private Placement Life Insurance and Private Placement Variable Annuities
TAKE A CHANCE ON ME! Tax Planning During the Biden Administration
NOWOTNY KNOWS SQUAT! Part 2 Using PPLI and PPVA Annuities to Raise Assets Under Management and Sell More Life Insurance
INTRODUCING MALTA SPLIT DOLLAR
Private Placement Life Insurance Discussion Podcast
ROCK OF AGES video
PRIVATE PLACEMENT LIFE INSURANCE WEBINAR
THE WAY WE WERE
Mad Dogs and Panameños!
Dark Side of the Moon
Main Reason To Be Selling PPLI Now
What a Difference a Day Makes!
One Note Samba
The focus of this article illustrates why private placement life insurance (“PPLI”) is the best asset to utilize in the “Buy, Borrow and Die” strategy for high net worth investors including billionaires. After this article,...more
This article focuses on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. (2024) and how it might apply to Split Dollar life insurance and possibly resurrect one of my favorite life...more
In the Soundtrack of Our Lives, one of the songs that I still get to hear from time to time on Sirius XM, is “Still the One” which was recorded and released by the band Orleans in 1976. I was in the tenth grade just to be...more
Litigation attorneys have had the ability to defer contingency fees since 1994. You are hard pressed to find another profession that has this tax advantage. Hedge fund managers have been running and winning the “Death Race”...more
Recently (January 15th) I celebrated my sixty fifth birthday. Where did the time go? If my East German father Willy Wolfgang Nowotny were still with us, I could hear him say, “Too soon old, too late smart.” While I was never...more
The use of private placement life insurance (PPLI) by high-net-worth individuals has generated considerable controversy over the years, with proponents arguing that it is a proper use of existing laws that provide many of the...more
This session of the Private Client West Coast Forum 2024 focused on recent developments, including income tax planning to support investment performance, executive compensation planning, private placement life insurance...more
On February 21, 2024, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden released a report on the findings from a self-styled “democratic staff investigation” into the use of private placement life insurance (PPLI) by...more
Market volatility and heightened tax uncertainty have caused increased interest in private placement life insurance (PPLI) in recent years. However, those same factors have led to increased scrutiny for high-net-worth...more
ESOPs are a great tool for the business owner and employees. The planning technique complimenting the ESOP dramatically enhance the benefits for the Seller making the Seller more willing to enter into the ESOP arrangement....more
If the pandemic was good for anything, it was TV watching. The pandemic may become known as the golden age of television. Since I was a foreign language major (Portuguese and Spanish) at West Point (mind you out of academic...more
The high-net-worth PPLI marketplace has started to resemble the retail VUL marketplace but with institutional pricing and investment options that are more sophisticated. In my view this has occurred for two reasons. First,...more
The All in the Family podcast introduces Family Owned Life Insurance™ or (FOLI™). FOLI™ is a specialty use of group private placement life insurance for Family Offices. FOLI™ is a powerful product that will allow Family...more
It has been a while since I have written anything. Oh, the indignity of having to make a living! Most of you know by now that I am a quirky guy with quirky interests and quirky points of view. In that realm, I must say that I...more
Despite recent volatility in the U.S. stock market, the rising costs of inflation, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there are still ways to control the taxes you pay on your investments and the taxes that your family will...more
In May, the U.S. Attorneys’ Office for the Southern District of New York announced that it had reached a deferred prosecution agreement (the Agreement) with Swiss Life Holding AG (Swiss Life), Swiss Life (Liechtenstein) AG,...more
The bottom line; I can make a significant impact on your bottom line. Take a Chance on Me! Part II #ppli #ppva #idf #estateplanning #financialadvisor #tax ...more
Nowotny On Death and Taxes episode #41 Take A Chance On Me Part II refers to the point not only can Gerry create the strategies but he can implement them as well. Gerry is a leader in private placement life insurance (PPLI),...more
Embracing the Magic of Private Placement Life Insurance (PPLI) and Private Placement Variable Annuities (PPVA) - I am happy to be back from my writing hiatus. In retrospect I am not really certain what the reason was for...more
Take a chance on me series discusses niche strategies to achieve tax reduction and deferral. #taxstrategy #ppli #pooledincomefund #maltapensionplan #estateplanning ...more
I have been posting my articles on JD Supra since August 2012. I am grateful to JD Supra for helping me to spread the tax gospel of Nowotny to readers. As of today, my articles have had 523,887 views. If my Mom and Dad (of...more
Nowotny On Death and Taxes episode ,Take A Chance On Me! focuses on innovative strategies for tax reduction and deferral. Not only are we good at creating the ideas but we're good at implementing the ideas as well. #ppli...more
In the run-up to the deadline for filing federal taxes, the Justice Department has a well-established practice of bringing tax-related enforcement cases against crooked tax preparers, fraudsters and corporate entities as an...more
Nowotny Knows Squat - Part 2! This video speaks to financial advisors on how to sell more life insurance with private reinsurance. Customized product. Full commission product. #financialadvisor #insurance #ppli #ppva...more
Nowotny On Death and Taxes podcast episode #34 is a message to financial advisors to consider implementing private placement life insurance and private placement deferred variable annuities in their series of solutions they...more