The Life Insurance Values tool, or Life Values for short, is one of the most useful tools for the life insurance agent. It is compatible with many of the Truth Concepts calculators and makes them even more useful. If particular, the Life Values tool helps you compare life insurance to other assets, and/or see how life insurance can work with other assets. While a brand new policy is simple to copy and paste into Life Values, an in-force policy takes a little bit more care and attention. The reason is
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Truth Tip, Summary and Interpolate in Life Insurance Values
The Life Insurance Values tool (or simply Life Values) is one of the most valuable tools in the Truth Concepts suite. With it, you can upload your life insurance illustrations and use that data in other calculators such as Asset Flow, Diversification, Funding, and more. You may not know that there are some interesting things you can do in the Life Values tool directly that may help you with your behind-the-scenes work. Using the Summary Button in Life Insurance Values Life Values allows you to input up to 6 permanent
Read MoreThe New OCR File Converter
Introducing the newest feature to our beta software, Truth Concepts 3.0: the OCR File Converter. It’s not as complicated as it sounds. In fact, this feature may make inputting your life insurance values easier than ever. This new feature will allow you to turn pictures and scans into copyable PDFs, right from the Truth Concepts software. No more difficult formatting, or even inputting illustrations by hand simply because your PDF won’t allow you to copy. One great example of this type of file is a PDF you may get from
Read MoreTruth Tip, Life Insurance Values
Importing illustrations into Life Insurance Values properly is essential to getting the most from the Truth Concepts software. The importing process will look different from carrier to carrier. Some insurance carriers will export illustrations into a PDF, some will export into an Excel spreadsheet. No matter how the insurance company operates, there’s a way to import your illustrations. Supported Companies for Importing Illustrations Currently, only certain file-types of illustrations are supported. It’s important to note which is which, so you can import illustrations with ease. Here are the carriers and
Read MoreImporting Life Insurance Values: Lafayette Life
Before you can use the suite of Truth Concepts calculators, you’ll want to make sure you’ve imported your life insurance data in the Life Insurance Values, under the “Tools” drop-down menu. With recent updates to both Truth Concepts and Lafayette Life, the process for importing life insurance data from this particular life insurance company has changed. Read on for a step-by-step walkthrough of the new process. 1.Open your Lafayette Life Online Illustration Application. Proceed as you would normally by inputting all pertinent information into the software. 2. Export. Press the
Read MoreWhat’s the Difference Between IRR and ROR?
Many advisors focus on the internal rate of return when analyzing a policy, but it neglects the whole truth. So what’s the difference between IRR and ROR, and why does it matter?
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