What Wealthy People Do After the Obvious Tax Strategies Run Out w/ Michael Malloy

What Wealthy People Do After the Obvious Tax Strategies Run Out w/ Michael Malloy

June 11, 2026 · 44 min

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This episode discusses the benefits of Private Placement Life Insurance for wealthy investors and families.

If you think life insurance is about protection, you'll miss what it can do at a high net worth level. For wealthy investors, business owners, and families with meaningful assets, the question is not just where to invest. It is where long-term capital should sit, how it should be owned, how it should grow, how private it should remain, and how efficiently it can move to the next generation. That is where Private Placement Life Insurance, or PPLI, changes the conversation. Most investors dismiss life insurance because they think they already understand it. They picture ordinary policies, limited investment options, and a product built mainly around a death benefit. But at the high end, that framework is incomplete. PPLI is not ordinary life insurance. For the right investor, it can function as a long-term asset structure, allowing capital to grow in a tax-advantaged environment, support estate planning, simplify reporting, preserve privacy, and create a more strategic way to hold assets over time. In this episode of Money School Elite, I sit down with Mike Malloy to unpack how PPLI actually works, why wealthy families use it, and why the structure around an asset can matter just…

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