The TOLI Handbook – ITM TwentyFirst

Take the TOLI Challenge: In a Permanent Life Insurance Policy, the Cost of the Policy is Equal to the Premium – Yes or No?

Take the TOLI Challenge: In a Permanent Life Insurance Policy, the Cost of the Policy is Equal to the Premium – Yes or No?

The answer is an emphatic NO. Some permanent life insurance policies, specifically guaranteed universal life (GUL) and Whole Life (WL), have required premiums, though WL out of pocket premiums can be reduced by dividends, paid-up addition cash values or policy loans. But the premium paid is not the actual cost of the policy and finding the underlying costs on the policies is a challenge. For [...]

ITM TwentyFirst2021-09-10T15:32:48-05:00September 10th, 2021|Current Assumption Universal Life, Equity Index Universal Life, General Interest, The TOLI Handbook, TOLI Administration, Whole Life|1 Comment

Take the TOLI Challenge: Can You Answer This?

Take the TOLI Challenge: Can You Answer This?

What steps should you take if a grantor says they want to surrender their policy? In the decade-plus that we have been managing life insurance for TOLI trustees, we have noticed that the weak link in their services usually is remediation. The inability to analyze policy options in changing situations is an area of future liability. Some trustees we have spoken with have surrendered policies [...]

ITM TwentyFirst2021-08-20T16:05:53-05:00August 20th, 2021|General Interest, The TOLI Handbook, TOLI Administration, What to Do With An Unwanted Life Insurance Policy?|0 Comments

Professional Designations: Training Your Staff Helps Your Team and Your Firm

Professional Designations: Training Your Staff Helps Your Team and Your Firm

Over the years, we at ITM TwentyFirst have been leaders in peer education. The TOLI Handbook, a free download available here as a PDF, provides industry peers with a single source guide for managing trust-owned life insurance (TOLI) trusts and policies. We have, over the years, provided hundreds of hours of professional CE for several professional designations. Our staff is encouraged and incentivized to seek [...]

ITM TwentyFirst2021-08-06T15:04:21-05:00August 6th, 2021|General Interest, The TOLI Handbook, TOLI Administration|1 Comment

Take the TOLI Challenge: Can you answer this?

Take the TOLI Challenge: Can you answer this?

What is most important when determining the liability of a trustee’s actions? Over the years, we have noticed that the knowledge of TOLI trustees varies from trust company to trust company. After publishing the TOLI Handbook, we thought we would “chunk it down” with the TOLI Challenge—a series of questions designed to test the knowledge of the typical TOLI trustee. We will be publishing questions [...]

ITM TwentyFirst2021-06-17T16:13:47-05:00June 17th, 2021|General Interest, Policy Management, The TOLI Handbook, TOLI Administration|0 Comments

Best Interest Standards for Life Insurance Would Be a TOLI Trustee’s Best Friend

Best Interest Standards for Life Insurance Would Be a TOLI Trustee’s Best Friend

As a TOLI trustee, you have a fiduciary responsibility to ensure that every transaction - either a new policy sale or replacement is not only suitable for your client, but also in your client’s best interest.

ITM TwentyFirst2021-04-30T01:35:20-05:00April 30th, 2021|Policy Management, The TOLI Handbook, TOLI Administration|0 Comments

The TOLI Handbook – Chapter 15: Understanding Life Expectancy Reports

The TOLI Handbook – Chapter 15: Understanding Life Expectancy Reports

We recently wrote about remediation and the challenges that TOLI trustees have when managing a policy. Remediation is not just developing the best options for an under performing policy, increasingly it means maximizing the value of a policy that a grantor believes is no longer needed, or one whose expected funding has stopped. These decisions must be well-thought-out and every data point that can be [...]

ITM TwentyFirst2021-02-12T16:53:17-06:00February 12th, 2021|Life Insurance Investments, News, Policy Management, The TOLI Handbook, Uncategorized|1 Comment

Remediation, the Weak Link for Trustees – The TOLI Handbook: Chapter 16

Remediation, the Weak Link for Trustees – The TOLI Handbook: Chapter 16

A TOLI trustee we work with received a request from a grantor tired of gifting to pay premiums on his portfolio of whole life policies. His agent suggested that the three policies be replaced with one policy with a reduced death benefit. The existing portfolio totaled $5.7 million of coverage. The agent proposed transferring the $2.1 million of cash value into a $3 million equity [...]

ITM TwentyFirst2021-02-05T17:31:27-06:00February 5th, 2021|General Interest, Policy Management, The TOLI Handbook, TOLI Administration|1 Comment

TOLI Trustee Work Load and Liability Climbing as Use of ILITs Diminish

TOLI Trustee Work Load and Liability Climbing as Use of ILITs Diminish

As the federal estate tax laws changed, the use of new irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs) diminished, but the work required to administer existing ILITs went up along with the potential liability attached to the asset class. There are several reasons for this. 1. As a country, we are aging and the population of the average TOLI portfolio is aging too. For example, 25% of [...]

ITM TwentyFirst2021-01-28T17:10:40-06:00January 28th, 2021|Life Insurance Investments, News, Policy Management, The TOLI Handbook|2 Comments

TOLI Trustee Alert: Oops, the Policy Lapsed…Now What?

TOLI Trustee Alert: Oops, the Policy Lapsed…Now What?

The most common fear for a life insurance trustee is that somehow the ball is dropped and the policy in their care lapses. After all, a trust-owned life insurance (TOLI) trustee, even if they are not sophisticated in all the nuances of life insurance policy management, should at least be able to keep the policy in force. But unintended lapses do happen, and when they [...]

ITM TwentyFirst2020-09-25T16:43:34-05:00September 25th, 2020|Policy Management, The TOLI Handbook, TOLI Administration|0 Comments

Upcoming Webinar June 24th – Comparing the Discretionary, Delegated, and Directed Trustee’s Role and the Trust Protector

Upcoming Webinar June 24th – Comparing the Discretionary, Delegated, and Directed Trustee’s Role and the Trust Protector

Directed Trusts are a growing reality as more states adopt the Uniform Directed Trust Act. Delegated trusts are as old as the UPIA, but are you really prepared to confidentially articulate the difference between the two models? Most trust organizations are being asked to consider one or both of these options by someone in their market or the bank. This webinar will compare and [...]

ITM TwentyFirst2020-06-18T13:56:41-05:00June 18th, 2020|Event, General Interest, The TOLI Handbook, TOLI Administration|0 Comments