A caller paid $26/month for a whole life policy on her daughter for 29 years and had only $6,800 cash value — far less than the $58,000+ it would have grown to in an S&P 500 index fund.
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Rachel Cruz takes the Fairwinds Credit Union segment and makes it personal: staying with a low-yield bank could cost a family hundreds of dollars per year in foregone interest. She walks through the math — $20,000 at 0.5% earns about $70; at 3% APY it earns over $600. The Smart Bundle includes a high-yield savings account, no-fee checking, and the Ramsey 'Be Weird' debit card. The Zander Insurance segment that follows reframes term life insurance as an act of love: 'a way of saying I love you when you can no longer say it yourself.' The host endorses Zander as a broker who shops top companies and can often provide coverage with no medical exam.
The average savings account pays less than 0.5% APY; a $20,000 balance at 3% APY earns over $600/year vs roughly $70 at the national average.
$26/month invested in an S&P 500 index fund for 29 years would have grown to roughly $58,000. The whole life insurance policy returned $6,800. That's the true cost of being sold whole life insurance on your children.
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