Pacific Life Offers Life Insurance Sales Kit

Pacific Life Insurance Company and Pacific Life&Annuity Company now offer a sales kit featuring life insurance materials for financial professionals.

The sales kit helps advisers identify the income needs of clients in retirement and look at how to help protect the family while building assets toward the retirement goal.

According to Pacific Life, using life insurance in a client’s long-term retirement strategy provides a death benefit for family or business protection while they are on the road to retirement and the potential of retirement income when they arrive.

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In addition to death benefit protection, Pacific Life says a life insurance policy can offer:

  • cash value accumulation potential on a tax-deferred basis,
  • loans, withdrawals and distributions on a tax-free basis, and
  • no age limitations on when to access a policy’s cash value

“Sometimes, the hardest job a financial adviser faces is getting a client to focus on the future, especially younger clients who can benefit from the long-term cash value accumulation potential of a life insurance policy,’ said Alyce Peterson, vice president of marketing services for Pacific Life. “This new resource can help pinpoint needs and show how life insurance can be a part of a successful plan.’

Financial professionals can get the “Replacing the Paycheck in Retirement” Kit by contacting their Pacific Life Insurance Company or Pacific Life & Annuity Company representative or by calling 866-722-9555. For more information, visit www.PacificLife.com.

DC Lawyer Barred from ERISA Plan Service

A federal judge has permanently barred a District of Columbia lawyer from servicing any Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plans after the attorney was charged with helping improperly transfer retirement plan assets.

A Department of Labor (DoL) statement said David Johnston is now prohibited from providing advice or other services to an ERISA program.

A DoL suit charges that Johnston knowingly helped move retirement plan assets to companies affiliated with the president of SCT Yarns, Kenneth H. Combs Jr., and received fees as a result of the improper asset movement.

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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation took over the two retirement plans from the bankrupt Chattanooga-based SCT in 2001. The plans cover 771 participants, according to the DoL.

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