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Planned Giving for Financial Advisors

Life Insurance — Beneficiary Designation

Life Insurance Estate Distributions Gift Diagram

How It Works

  • Your client designates Harper College Educational Foundation as a beneficiary of her life insurance policy.
  • When the time comes, we receive the proceeds and use them for the purposes your client designates.

Benefits

  • Your client will provide a large gift to benefit Harper College Educational Foundation for relatively little cost.
  • Your client will not affect her cash flow.
  • Your client will retain the flexibility to change her beneficiary designation later if her circumstances change.
  • The policy proceeds distributed to Harper College Educational Foundation will be exempt from estate tax in your client‘s estate.

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