04/21/2020
What is PBC Personal Banking Concept– From a “30,000 Foot” Perspective?
The Personal Banking Concept aka Infinite Banking Concept is a very creative/genius idea utilizing whole life insurance as a savings accumulation vehicle. IBC is created by former insurance salesperson Nelson Nash in the 1980’s and popularized in his famous book, Becoming Your Own Banker.
From a very general perspective, the Personal Banking Concept involves…
* 1) Overfunding (with after-tax money) a specially-designed high-cash value whole life insurance policy from a mutual life insurance company which is guaranteed never to decrease in value,
* 2) Having it accumulate (on a tax-free basis) cash value over the years with a conservative-but-respectable-interest-rate, and then
* 3) Taking tax-free loans (that don’t necessarily ever need to be paid back) against the policy’s cash value to put money to use in other investments that come along your way or simply to pay for regular living expenses.
The Concept has the word “Banking” in the title for several reasons. First, you are potentially able to mimic the way a bank operates by borrowing money at one (lower) interest rate, putting it to use, and then earning a return at another (higher) interest rate. Second, when you borrow money from your policy’s cash value, it technically is still working for you by continuing to earn dividends in the policy even though you are using it elsewhere. Of course, one big difference between how a bank operates and how the Personal Banking Concept works is that banks utilize other people’s money, whereas here, you will only be using your own money.