Tag: Real Estate Investing

Premium Financing Strategies for Estate Liquidity and Legacy Planning with Jacob Brigati (Ep. 66)

Premium Financing Strategies for Estate Liquidity and Legacy Planning with Jacob Brigati (Ep. 66)

Building wealth is one thing. Creating enough liquidity to protect that wealth for future generations can be an entirely different challenge.

How can business owners, real estate investors, and high-net-worth families address estate taxes, business succession concerns, and outstanding loans without disrupting the assets they’ve spent years building?

In this episode, Greg DuPont welcomes Jacob Brigati, Premium Financing Consultant at Simplicity UFC, to discuss how premium financing can help create estate liquidity, support business succession plans, and address leveraged asset concerns. Jacob explains how financing life insurance through bank leverage may help high-net-worth families manage estate planning challenges while preserving valuable assets. 

He also shares real-world examples, discusses underwriting requirements, and explains the importance of conservative planning, ongoing policy management, and creating flexible strategies that can evolve over time.

Jacob discusses:

  • How premium financing helps create estate liquidity while reducing upfront out-of-pocket costs
  • Why leveraged real estate owners often use insurance planning to address outstanding loan obligations
  • How business owners can create liquidity to balance inheritances among children fairly
  • The importance of conservative projections and ongoing policy reviews over many years
  • Financial and medical underwriting factors that determine premium financing eligibility
  • And more!

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About Our Guest:

Jacob Brigati is a Premium Financing Consultant with Simplicity UFC, specializing in helping high-net-worth families, business owners, real estate investors, and advisors use premium financing strategies to address estate planning, business succession, and liquidity needs. He works closely with attorneys, financial advisors, CPAs, and family offices to design life insurance solutions that can help create liquidity for estate taxes, outstanding obligations, asset equalization among heirs, and legacy planning goals. Jacob’s focus includes structuring and managing premium-financed life insurance strategies, coordinating with insurance carriers and lenders, and providing ongoing policy reviews to help clients monitor performance over time.

The Power of Real Estate Investing with Taylor Vick, CFA (Ep. 20)

The Power of Real Estate Investing with Taylor Vick, CFA (Ep. 20)

Real estate is one of the most popular forms of investment. It offers a variety of benefits, such as income generation, capital appreciation, tax efficiency, and diversification. 

However, real estate investing also comes with its own challenges, such as finding the right properties, managing them effectively, and navigating the complex legal and financial aspects. 

That is why estate planning attorneys must be well educated in this field in order to provide the proper guidance to their clients.

Greg DuPont sits down with Taylor Vick, Managing Director at Blue Ridge Asset Management, to explore the ins and outs of real estate investing. Taylor shares his expertise on various types of real estate investments and the benefits of using self-directed IRAs. He also covers strategies for leveraging tax benefits to enhance investment returns.

Taylor discusses: 

  • The wealth-building potential and steady income real estate offers
  • The liquidity aspect of real estate investments
  • The tax advantages of real estate investment
  • Exploring asset management, 1031 exchanges, and diversification strategies for real estate investments
  • Insights on real estate deals in the current market with higher interest rates and strategies for future potential refinancing
  • Incorporating real estate into trusts for estate planning to transfer valuable assets and minimize estate taxes
  • And more!

 

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About Our Guest:

Taylor Vick has pursued a passionate commitment to the real estate investment community in and around the upstate for decades. Obtaining his CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) designation, Taylor continued to drive his passion for real estate investing at a high level pursuing the most advanced training, traveling the globe attending industry-leading conferences, and continuing to stay at the leading edge of the investment world each and every day. His tenacity for reaching industry-leading milestones for Blue Ridge has shown year after year, including an increasingly growing total of $150+ million in real estate funds managed. 

As Principal and Managing Director, Taylor has a wide range of industry expertise and involvement including private company investments, acquisitions, commercial loans, agency debt, insurance company loans, non-recourse financings, 1031 exchanges, leases with purchase options, originating mortgage notes to buyers, receiving mortgage notes from sellers, contract assessments and equity cash-out refinancing among a variety of strategies that lead the industry in both performance and success. 

Taylor’s success is not only driven by the impressive numbers, tenacity, and hunger to lead the industry but in the relational side of Blue Ridge. With an investor-first mindset, Taylor prioritizes investor relationships as the foundation of Blue Ridge’s advancement in the industry and the ever-growing investor client list is proof of his unwavering relational commitment. 

You can also find Taylor involved heavily in supporting local community missions, organizations, and events as his local roots remain strong in supporting the upstate’s growth surge sustainably.