(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
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
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
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
The New Gold Rush- The Use of Private Placement Insurance Products for Managing Bitcoin and Other Crypto-Currency Trading - Overview - Someday when CNN creates a documentary of the early 21st century, the story of...more
Overview - I have always been a film fan. Growing up in the Panama Canal Zone, one of my Mother’s jobs for the Panama Canal Company was serving as the manager of the Balboa Theater. We used to watch initial screenings of...more