IUL Design 101

Design what you can defend.

Indexed universal life is booming - and so are the problems: illustrations that flatter, funding that fades, "max charge" strategies nobody explained, and case files that can't answer one simple question years later: why was this recommended?

IUL Design 101 teaches indexed universal life the way strong advisors actually practice it: discovery first, the need derived on paper, honest illustration discipline, and a case file built to survive the three audiences every policy eventually meets - the client's family, the suitability desk, and a regulator reading it cold.

Then it proves the method twelve times: twelve client scenarios worked from fact pattern to documented design, with the arithmetic shown and the stress tests included.

Inside the Enhanced Edition:

• The DEFEND case file - six sections that turn best-practice design into a defensible paper trail
• Twelve design scenarios - the young family's death-benefit math, max-funded accumulation without the MEC surprise, the college case, the business case, the problem-policy rescue, and more
• Design Math Deep-Dives - the derivations behind every scenario, on one page each
• The Conversion Playbooks - step-by-step paths for whole life, VUL, and expiring convertible term
• Choosing the Index Menu - caps, participation, spreads, triggers, and charge-based "high par" strategies, with the five-year truth table that shows what each one really credits (including the negative floor nobody mentions)
• Premium Financing for HNW Clients - the honest mechanics, the twin-stress math, the ILIT and the full professional team, two worked case files, and the meeting-by-meeting playbook for pitching and closing seven-figure cases
• Rescue, replacement & review - the in-force rescue matrix, the replacement scorecard, and the annual review that keeps policies (and practices) alive

Who this book is for: life insurance agents and financial professionals who sell IUL - or are about to. New advisors get a complete operating system. Veterans get the compliance-first structure that turns production into a durable, referable practice. Field leaders get a training manual they can hand to every recruit.

Every number is hypothetical and carrier-agnostic. Every framework is reusable. Every chapter ends where your next appointment begins.

Part of the Financial Professional Blueprint Series - pair it with Annuity Design 101 for the complete case-design library.

Stop selling illustrations. Start designing cases that win clients - and files that defend themselves.