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LIFE INSURANCE

The Power of Persistence: Todd Wiedenkeller on Building Relationships and Success in Insurance

 

It’s Personal… Not Just Business with Michael Fliegelman, Episode 13

In this episode of It’s Personal… Not Just Business, host Michael Fliegelman sits down with Todd Wiedenkeller, Owner of Wiedenkeller Insurance in New Paltz, New York. Todd has been in the insurance business for over 46 years, building his success on strategic relationships and a […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2024-09-26T19:57:19+00:00September 26th, 2024|Blog, It's Personal... Not Just Business Podcast|0 Comments
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Insurance Planning: a Possible Tool and Strategy to Overcome Inflation

{4 minutes to read}  At the time of this blog, we are heading toward the end of 2022, and what was a financially challenging year for people, especially as inflation has reared its head. People are concerned about the ever-increasing cost of living as things have gone up quite a bit in the […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2023-03-23T17:33:26+00:00March 14th, 2023|Blog, Estate Planning, Insurance Planning, Retirement Planning|0 Comments
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Estate Planning for Families with Special Needs

{5 minutes to read} Today, we’re going to talk about estate planning for families that have special needs children—whether adult or minor children—and what the estate plan needs to consider for these persons with special needs.

Normally, with two children, an estate is equally left to both. However, when there is a child with special needs, […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2022-02-09T19:56:07+00:00February 9th, 2022|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning|0 Comments
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The Gift of a Lifetime

We are now in December and people are thinking about the holidays and gift giving. Since we all think about what would be a significant or the best gift, I’d like to urge everybody to consider giving a Gift of a Lifetime. Gift of a Lifetime is a program designed for parents and/or grandparents to […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2021-12-09T15:42:17+00:00December 9th, 2021|Blog, Estate Planning|0 Comments
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The Value of Annuities in Retirement Planning

Today, we’re going to talk about retirement planning and the case for annuities. There was a recent article in the Wall Street Journal titled “The Case for Replacing Some Bonds With Annuities“. The first line says, “Unless you die relatively young, income annuities will give you more retirement spending power than bonds, […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2021-04-09T10:52:23+00:00April 9th, 2021|Annuities, Blog, Retirement Planning|0 Comments
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Purchasing Life Insurance with Before-Tax Dollars

Today I want to talk about life insurance and how it can be purchased. Most of the time people buy life insurance with after-tax dollars — dollars that they’ve already paid taxes on. Since the SECURE Act was signed into law, one of the things we are doing more and more is looking at ways […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2021-01-25T11:54:36+00:00January 25th, 2021|Blog, Financial Planning, Insurance Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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Why Should You Give Us a Call?

{4 minutes to read}  Today I want to talk about three subjects:

  1. What do we actually do?
  2. How can we help?
  3. Why should you consider working with us?

What Do We Actually Do?

What we do is very diverse. We go under the heading of providing financial planning, but many times people don’t want to do a […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2020-09-23T11:40:06+00:00September 23rd, 2020|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Retirement Planning|0 Comments
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Coronavirus and Insurance Planning

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So, what are you doing about your insurance needs?

A lot of changes have happened in the year 2020, which we have now dubbed “2✱2✱.” We are replacing the zeros with asterisks because the world has changed and this is the year of exceptions.

However, some things remain the same and people still have […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2020-08-20T10:58:15+00:00August 20th, 2020|Blog, Financial Planning, Insurance Planning|0 Comments
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Life Insurance in the Digital Age

{1 minute to read}  I am seeing the future of life insurance and it is completely digital. 

Mass Mutual’s Coverpath program allows for instant quotes, a shareable digital application, and even immediate approval for your most qualified clients: up to $1 million of coverage along with an e-delivery payment and […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2020-06-03T11:39:29+00:00May 31st, 2020|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Insurance Planning|0 Comments
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Life Insurance Asset Management

Bathtub Faucet drippingIt’s an unfortunate fact that many policies will simply not perform as their policy owners expect them to, and yet;

  • Many policy owners, insureds, and trustees are not aware of the risk that the policy they own will not remain in force for their entire […]

    Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2020-05-22T17:31:19+00:00May 22nd, 2020|Blog, General, Insurance Planning|0 Comments
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