324: What You Need to Know About Infinite Banking| FAQ

324: What You Need to Know About Infinite Banking| FAQ

From Wealth On Main Street by Richard Canfield & Jayson Lowe

June 19, 2026 · 33 min

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The episode addresses frequently asked questions about Infinite Banking and its applicability across different ages and health conditions.

Q1: Am I Too Old to Start?Q2: Is It Too Late for Me?Q3: Does Age Matter?Q4: What If I'm Uninsurable?Q5: When Should I Start?Q6: How Do Policy Loans Work?Q7: How Do You Pay Back Policy Loans?Q8: What Does It Mean to Be Well Diversified in Lives Insured?The Two Rules Worth Memorizing Q1: Am I Too Old to Start? Short answer: probably not. As long as you still need to use money, and most of us do until our last breath, the process of becoming your own banker is available to you. The concept itself is not age-dependent. What is age-dependent is the insurance tool used to implement it. If you want to be the life insured on the policy, there is a cap at around age 85. But here’s what most people don’t realize: the policy owner and the life insured don’t have to be the same person. You can own a policy on a child, grandchild, or any insurable family member and still implement the full process yourself. Nelson Nash himself became uninsurable after a quadruple bypass in 1987, yet he continued acquiring policies on other family members for decades. Just four or five months before he passed away at age 88, he took out a brand-new, $2,000-a-year policy on a great-grandchild. He knew he wasn’t…

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