Protection & Insurance Planning

How does Insurance planning play a role in our Financial Life Plan® process?

 
By this point, you know that every single new client that works with our team begins by completing their Financial Life Plan®.

This plan will incorporate your income, expenses, taxes, insurances, short term & long-term financial goals and then show you exactly what needs to be done to become more efficient tactically in the short term and increase the plan success rate in the long run.

A lot of clients reach out to us because they are looking for tax management help, investment analysis & guidance or help with retirement & life goal planning. Maybe these are what’s motivating you as well. 

Here’s what we’ve found: 

No one likes having to think about insurance. No one likes having to think about getting sick or passing away prematurely. We especially don't like having to PAY MONEY to think about getting sick, injured, or passing away prematurely. And yet, it's a core part of having a financial foundation. Thinking that you have a financial plan because you have an investment portfolio (but not having an organized insurance set up) is like buying a really cool convertible that you keep outside all year long....what good is it if we're not protecting it?  

Protecting Your Family's Future

We will spend time, throughout the planning process, doing a deep dive on your family's risk management set-up. 

We will look at your current level of:

* Life Insurance Coverage

* Disability Insurance Coverage

* Property & Casualty Insurance

* Long Term Care Insurance 

and then determine if you are adequately covered given your income, expenses, life goals, and family dynamics. We will unpack what you have through your employer (if applicable) & what insurance you own individually. We will unpack the language in your company's disability insurance coverage and we will calculate whether the supplemental life insurance your employer offers your spouse is the most cost-effective option. 

We will propose specific & implementable risk management strategies and explain EXACTLY why we think they are necessary to better protect your financial plan. (Or...we will let you know why we believe you are already properly protected & that it's not worth supplementing your current level of coverage.) 

One of the most important differences between a fiduciary financial planner that addresses their client's insurance needs and an insurance agent (thankfully there are many!!!) is that our analysis & any potential recommendations we make are a part of your financial life plan and are tied into our conversations around your cash flow, investments, broader financial health, retirement probabilities and the like! 

You are paying for the Financial Life Plan & just like when it comes to your investments & retirement account strategy, you can choose to implement our recommendations or not. (Alternatively, you can also take our recommendations and ask your cousin/sister-in-law etc. to implement our recommendations if you'd like!)

Simply put, you will hear our unvarnished &  brutally honest assessment of your current insurance gaps and how to best address them. Then, if so desired, we will go out and get you the coverage through one of the many insurance companies that we work with.

Here’s a little secret of wealth management... 

One advisor cannot be all things to all people.

A true fiduciary advisor cannot realistically serve as your investment advisor, financial planner, insurance advisor and tax advisor. Or rather they CAN…it’s just going to mean not doing any at the level that you expect. All of these planning areas involve a level of complexity and ongoing knowledge & management that makes it impossible for one lead advisor to be an expert & proprietor on all of it. 

At Drucker Wealth, we realized years ago that our advisor & planning team specialize in and are best at financial planning & tax efficient investment management. That is what WE do. We made a firm decision that life insurance & estate planning needed to be handled by a group whose sole focus was estate planning and insurance architecture. As a result, we brought in one of the top insurance planning firms in the country to serve as the protection planning arm of Drucker Wealth. Led by Hunter Gimbel, formerly the CEO and President of the Gaber Group, and now the managing partner of Drucker Wealth’s Estate Planning & Insurance Division, every one of our clients will go through a full insurance review as part of their Financial Life Plan™ program. You will meet Hunter and his team (Hadley and Megan) early on in your FLIP engagement, so that they can design a customized insurance/estate program that fits INTO the rest of your broader financial plan. 

This last piece is key.

Because the only thing worse than having one advisor who attempts to do it all is having a financial planner, an insurance advisor, and a tax advisor/CPA that don’t communicate, know each other or operate from the same fundamental philosophy. It means that each professional is looking at your financial world silo’ d off from the other components of the advice that you acting on. Redundancies and inefficiencies s abound. Quite frankly, it’s inevitable. 

With us, your Drucker Wealth Estate & Insurance program is just one component of your Financial life Plan. 

What is Estate Planning?

Estate planning, to put it plainly, is the process of ensuring that your financial affairs are managed and taken care of in the way that YOU want upon your demise (or mental incapacity).

A proper estate plan will ensure the following upon your demise:

1. Your family is provided for financially to the degree that you desire
2. Your assets are left to YOUR chosen beneficiaries (family, charity, friends etc.) in the most tax-efficient manner possible
3. You are in control of your own health and end-of-life planning to the greatest extent possible

Prior to our second planning check in (what we call our “Goals & Gathering” Meetings) our team will get to work gathering all of the relevant documents we need to complete our analysis (investment statements, tax returns, pay stub, 401k statement etc.) Naturally, we do the same in asking for your estate planning documents & insurance policies (if you have them).

That is when our team gets to work. As part of your Protection Strategy Delivery Meeting, we walk you through an educational estate planning program…with the goal of helping you understand what estate planning work still needs to be completed (and what needs to be updated if your most recent version is out of date.)

We will help you understand what decisions you and your family must start thinking about (such as naming the relevant parties to serve specific roles, ie: who do you want to serve as beneficiaries, fiduciaries, executors of trusts, guardians for your kids if you were to pass etc.) as well as specifying what healthcare decisions you will need to make (healthcare proxy, a living will, health directives).

Finally, after we’ve done this initial prep work, we will reach out to an estate attorney to actually draft the relevant documents (or reach out to your estate attorney if you are already working with/know someone in particular).

Our planning structure and process is likely to save you both time and money when it comes to putting together your estate plan because most of the prep work has already been done by the time you reach the attorney: you are just hiring them to put your plan into action.

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