There are two reasons why Dave Ramsey is not always the best option for financial advice. First reason, he constantly tells people there is no benefit to holding CREDIT. That's just plain dumb in the face of many who have benefited from using credit to purchase Real-estate or start a business. My son in law is a Real-estate investor and is using credit with great results. Second reason, sometimes Mr Ramsey gets it completely wrong. His opinion concerning Whole Life Insurance is one of those times he got it wrong. Concerning life insurance, in the video above, Mr Ramsey advises a caller on his program not to use the Infinite Banking concept via whole life insurance. He claims the insurance agent which advised his caller of the Infinite Banking concept is not a financial advisor. I can just imagine Insurance agents who hold the series 6, 7 and 63 were probably baffled by his comment. Clearly Mr Ramsey is clueless about the benefits of Whole Life. Structured correctly, using non-direct recognition clause and a paid-up rider, a client can borrow from their OWN whole life policy, with their payments of principle & interest returning to increase THEIR POLICY. Essentially in time this stops the need to borrow from a bank to purchase high ticket items (home, car, boats, vacations, wedding ring, college tuition) The process is set up, so that you borrow from your own policy, and all payments will Pay Yourself Back! Not to mention interest payments will be much lower than anything a bank offers. Funding your own future loans while building an inheritance for your beneficiaries is a wonderful financial strategy. A savvy Insurance agent would add a grantor retained annuity trust that would give the principal to family members estate tax free. Moral of this story is that it's prudent to do your own research instead of relying on so-called experts. Hopefully the caller listened to his Insurance Agent, and not Mr Ramsey.
Hello mikeriley, An old man in the neighborhood I grew up in use to tell me all the time "If a man talk too much he trying to fool you and take your money". Dave Ramsey just pimping the system and selling dreams.
Hi there SimpleLikeMe, When I use to be a trucker over the road, I would listen to Mr Ramsey's radio program religiously. His teachings do have some merits. He teaches the importance of achieving a debt-free lifestyle. But after you've paid off all your debt..then what? This is just my opinion, but I started to get the impression his program is geared towards people who plan on being a working stiff the rest of their life. I realized to get ahead financially credit can be a useful tool for leverage. So I stopped listening to Mr Ramsey, and started listening to entrepreneurs who teach how to get the hell out of the rat race.
You apparently know even less. Anyone who studied insurance policies and finance for just a few hours understands that life insurance policies of all stripes are bad investments unless only used for the original intent, which is to insure against the death of the insured. Anyone who uses credit in normal life is a person of average or below average income/earnings and probably does not have much say in this. Or have you heard of someone who makes plenty and borrows to buy a car or house? I have not. Most are get rich quick schemes that attract certain people of questionable work ethics.
Got ahead because of credit? You were a trucker for heavens sake. What are you now? A retired trucker?
this is not true, especially as a Canadian. there’s all sorts of things you can do with a life insurance policy to arb taxes and circumvent estate laws. Even in the US (which has the strictest tax code) there was a loophole by which you could overfund a life insurance policy and that value would grow tax free. That loophole has since been closed.
Dave Ramsey is fine for getting yourself out of debt and cost cutting but his advice on how to use money to make more of it often fall wide of the mark for me