Get all the info you need about The Infinite Banking Concept® at: www.TheFifthEdition.com Main Episode Description:One of the most valuable traits an IBC practitioner can have is patience - you need to be able to “think long range”, as Nelson put it. Which brings us to today’s topic: short pay and long pay policies. This is a hotly debated topic amongst life insurance agents and there is a lot of confusing, contradictory advice out there. Today, we are going to weigh in on the matter and help explain these policy design approaches and how they pertain to the Infinite Banking Concept®. Remember, everything in the insurance business is a tradeoff between cost and risk. There is no free lunch. So what are the tradeoffs when it comes to short-pay and long-pay policies for the purposes of deigning a whole life insurance policy for IBC? This is super-important information so please give this one a listen! LINK TO THIS EPISODE: https://www.thefifthedition.com/60 Episode Outline:0:00 - Introduction 0:12 - Episode beginning 2:55 - Some more context on “short pay” 7:27 - Why do people write short pay policies? 12:04 - Two other reasons that short pay policies have gotten more popular 16:07 - Another trade-off and long-term payments 18:06 - A policy becoming “paid up” and some more trade-offs 23:07 - Another trade-off, lower death benefit 24:24 - “Using your flexibility” and how it affects performance 27:29 - “The ability to go down” 29:45 - Measuring the performance of both 35:35 - The rule of thumb and where you would do a short pay 40:51 - The IBC mindset 43:19 - Episode wrap-up Get in touchhttps://www.thefifthedition.com/p/contact/