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The deconstruction of trusts

Understanding the intricacies of trusts may seem complicated but will help guide you toward creating tax-efficient legacies for your clients. Lincoln’s Advanced Sales team can navigate through any proposed outcome to provide clients with successful solutions and strategies. Let’s hear from subject matter expert Tom Commito on the importance of trusts and what strategies he hopes you implement in your practice.

Tom Commito discusses the estate planning potential of life insurance in a trust.

The ins and outs of trusts

Some trusts can be as short as one page, while others can be as complex as hundreds of pages. But all trusts share common principles and terms. Use our white paper to help guide you through trust reviews, however complex they may be.

Trust provisions to consider

There are a number of trust provisions, usually contained in separate sections of a trust, to look for. Let’s hear about some of these provisions from expert Tom Commito.

Solutions to offer clients

Over the past three decades, creative estate planners have established situations where a grantor can receive an income or principal from an irrevocable trust and avoid estate tax inclusion. Let’s hear from Tom about some solutions you can offer your clients.

Trustee checklist

Coordination of the steps and duties across roles can ensure successful set-up and administration of your client’s estate plan. Use this checklist to ensure that everyone is doing their due diligence along the way.

Insurance Carrier

Pre-sale

  • Offer client material pertaining to the trust solution provided
  • Present an illustration of proposed solution

Post-sale

  • Create in-force illustrations — as requested — to confirm policy is performing as needed
  • Provide policy statements with account values

Producer/Agent/Planner

Pre-sale

  • Develop a reasonable investment strategy
  • Implement the trust strategy with appropriate financial products

Post-sale

  • Regularly review policies and investments
  • Review the suitability of investments, make suggestions to trustee and change if needed

Trustee

Pre-sale

  • Understand the objectives and terms of the trust
  • Implement the trust strategy with appropriate financial products

Post-sale

  • Continue to review the suitability of investments made and make appropriate changes
  • Monitor the performance of the life insurance policy; review in-force illustration compared to “as sold”; analyze policy performance; assess competitiveness of current policy with new policy; document all actions made in the review process; evaluate annually
  • Record information about the trust: objectives, beneficiaries, actions, provisions, contributions, timing for distributions, etc.

Resources

Ready to help clients protect their legacy with trust-owned life insurance?
Email us at TOLI@LFG.com or call us at 800-832-5372.

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The deconstruction
of trusts

Understanding the intricacies of trusts may seem complicated but will help guide you toward creating tax-efficient legacies for your clients. Lincoln’s Advanced Sales team can navigate through any proposed outcome to provide clients with successful solutions and strategies. Let’s hear from subject matter expert Tom Commito on the importance of trusts and what strategies he hopes you implement in your practice.

 

The ins and outs of trusts

Some trusts can be as short as one page, while others can be as complex as hundreds of pages. But all trusts share common principles and terms. Use our white paper to help guide you through trust reviews, however complex they may be.

Trust provisions to consider

There are a number of trust provisions, usually contained in separate sections of a trust, to look for. Let’s hear about some of these provisions from expert Tom Commito.

Solutions to offer clients

Over the past three decades, creative estate planners have established situations where a grantor can receive an income or principal from an irrevocable trust and avoid estate tax inclusion. Let’s hear from Tom about some solutions you can offer your clients.

Trustee checklist

Coordination of the steps and duties across roles can ensure successful set-up and administration of your client’s estate plan. Use this checklist to ensure that everyone is doing their due diligence along the way.

Insurance Carrier

Pre-sale

  • Offer client material pertaining to the trust solution provided
  • Present an illustration of proposed solution

Post-sale

  • Create in-force illustrations — as requested — to confirm policy is performing as needed
  • Provide policy statements with account values
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Producer/Agent/Planner

Pre-sale

  • Develop a reasonable investment strategy
  • Implement the trust strategy with appropriate financial products

Post-sale

  • Regularly review policies and investments
  • Review the suitability of investments, make suggestions to trustee and change if needed
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Trustee

Pre-sale

  • Understand the objectives and terms of the trust
  • Implement the trust strategy with appropriate financial products

Post-sale

  • Continue to review the suitability of investments made and make appropriate changes
  • Monitor the performance of the life insurance policy; review in-force illustration compared to “as sold”; analyze policy performance; assess competitiveness of current policy with new policy; document all actions made in the review process; evaluate annually
  • Record information about the trust: objectives, beneficiaries, actions, provisions, contributions, timing for distributions, etc.

Resources

Ready to help clients protect their legacy with trust-owned life insurance? Email us at TOLI@LFG.com or call us at 800-832-5372.

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The deconstruction of trusts

Understanding the intricacies of trusts may seem complicated but will help guide you toward creating tax-efficient legacies for your clients. Lincoln’s Advanced Sales team can navigate through any proposed outcome to provide clients with successful solutions and strategies. Let’s hear from subject matter expert Tom Commito on the importance of trusts and what strategies he hopes you implement in your practice.

 

The ins and outs of trusts

Some trusts can be as short as one page, while others can be as complex as hundreds of pages. But all trusts share common principles and terms. Use our white paper to help guide you through trust reviews, however complex they may be.

Trust provisions to consider

There are a number of trust provisions, usually contained in separate sections of a trust, to look for. Let’s hear about some of these provisions from expert Tom Commito.

Solutions to offer clients

Over the past three decades, creative estate planners have established situations where a grantor can receive an income or principal from an irrevocable trust and avoid estate tax inclusion. Let’s hear from Tom about some solutions you can offer your clients.

Trustee checklist

Coordination of the steps and duties across roles can ensure successful set-up and administration of your client’s estate plan. Use this checklist to ensure that everyone is doing their due diligence along the way.

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Resources

Ready to help clients protect their legacy with trust-owned life insurance? Email us at TOLI@LFG.com or call us at 800-832-5372.

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Tom Commito discusses the estate planning potential of life insurance in a trust.

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The deconstruction of trusts

Understanding the intricacies of trusts may seem complicated but will help guide you toward creating tax-efficient legacies for your clients. Lincoln’s Advanced Sales team can navigate through any proposed outcome to provide clients with successful solutions and strategies. Let’s hear from subject matter expert Tom Commito on the importance of trusts and what strategies he hopes you implement in your practice.

 

The ins and outs of trusts

Some trusts can be as short as one page, while others can be as complex as hundreds of pages. But all trusts share common principles and terms. Use our white paper to help guide you through trust reviews, however complex they may be.

Trust provisions to consider

There are a number of trust provisions, usually contained in separate sections of a trust, to look for. Let’s hear about some of these provisions from expert Tom Commito.

Solutions to offer clients

Over the past three decades, creative estate planners have established situations where a grantor can receive an income or principal from an irrevocable trust and avoid estate tax inclusion. Let’s hear from Tom about some solutions you can offer your clients.

 
 
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Trustee checklist

Coordination of the steps and duties across roles can ensure successful set-up and administration of your client’s estate plan. Use this checklist to ensure that everyone is doing their due diligence along the way.

Insurance Carrier

Pre-sale

  • Offer client material pertaining to the trust solution provided
  • Present an illustration of proposed solution

Post-sale

  • Create in-force illustrations — as requested — to confirm policy is performing as needed
  • Provide policy statements with account values

Producer/Agent/Planner

Pre-sale

  • Develop a reasonable investment strategy
  • Implement the trust strategy with appropriate financial products

Post-sale

  • Regularly review policies and investments
  • Review the suitability of investments, make suggestions to trustee and change if needed

Trustee

Pre-sale

  • Understand the objectives and terms of the trust
  • Implement the trust strategy with appropriate financial products

Post-sale

  • Continue to review the suitability of investments made and make appropriate changes
  • Monitor the performance of the life insurance policy; review in-force illustration compared to “as sold”; analyze policy performance; assess competitiveness of current policy with new policy; document all actions made in the review process; evaluate annually
  • Record information about the trust: objectives, beneficiaries, actions, provisions, contributions, timing for distributions, etc.

Resources

Ready to help clients protect their legacy with trust-owned life insurance?
Email us at TOLI@LFG.com or call us at 800-832-5372.

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