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Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Feb 253 min read
Immediate Financing Arrangements (IFAs)
A Game-Changing Strategy for Your Clients As a Canadian financial advisor, your role is to guide clients toward financial strategies that...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Jan 303 min read
Estate Freezes: Your Secret Weapon for Business Owner Planning
Have you ever had a business owner client express concern about passing their company to the next generation? Or worry about the massive...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Nov 20, 20243 min read
How to Help Your Center of Influence (COI) Recognize Insurance Opportunities within Their Practice
Many advisors will agree that our industry offers a number of quality and effective tax saving strategies that could help incorporated...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Oct 16, 20244 min read
Estate Maximization and Funding For Retirement
What is it? How to Start the Conversation, and Tools to help In the fall of 2022, I penned a series of articles that focused on insurance...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Sep 18, 20245 min read
Estate Preservation: Solving the Liquidity Problem
What Is It? How to Start the Conversation, and Tools to Help In the fall of 2022, I penned a series of articles that focused on insurance...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Aug 19, 20244 min read
Beneficiary Issues with Corporate-Owned Life Insurance Policies
For corporate-owned policies, the general guideline is to have both the corporate policyowner and beneficiary be the same entity. In...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Jul 23, 20245 min read
Corporate Insured Retirement Program (CIRP)
When is interest deductibility available in “corporate borrowing” CIRP scenarios? The Corporate Insured Retirement program (CIRP) is an...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Jun 18, 20244 min read
Creditor Protection Issues and Life Insurance
Amongst the many beneficial qualities that life insurance possesses, special protection against the claims of creditors is one of them....


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
May 21, 20245 min read
Insured Annuities: Are they back?
For many Canadians entering their retirement years, their focus tends to switch from accumulating wealth to preserving wealth for...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Apr 24, 20244 min read
RRIF Estate Transfer Strategy
When your RRSP/RRIF income is not needed. For many Canadians, contributing to an RRSP is an effective way to build a retirement nest egg....


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Nov 23, 20227 min read
The Importance of a Cover Letter: Selling the Case to the Underwriter
In my previous 3 articles, we explored the many insurance opportunities we find when working in the business owner marketplace. The...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Oct 26, 20226 min read
Corporate Insurance Opportunities in the Growth/Mature Phase of the Business Cycle
In the previous article (published Sept 15, 2022), we explored the most common insurance opportunities we find in the development/growth...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Sep 29, 20225 min read
Corporate Insurance Opportunities in the Development/Growth Phase of the Business Cycle
In the previous article (published Aug 15, 2022) we covered the importance of getting to know your business owner prospects desires,...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Aug 23, 20225 min read
Business Insurance Planning: Asking the Right Questions and Spotting the Opportunities
There are many situations where life insurance can support the needs of a business following an individual’s death. To do the best job...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Jul 22, 20225 min read
Life Insurance Shares: What are they? And When to use them?
In recent years corporate owned life insurance has become an important planning tool in meeting the estate planning objectives and goals...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Jun 15, 20225 min read
Universal Life vs Whole Life: Should we consider CSV when comparing Net Estate Values?
Recently, while working on a corporate permanent life insurance case with an advisor, whereby we were comparing the net estate values...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
May 17, 20225 min read
Corporate Owned or Personally Owned Life Insurance: Which is best?
Of all the questions I’ve fielded in my almost 30 years in the industry, I must say, this one comes out on top. Like everything else,...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Apr 18, 20224 min read
Corporate Borrowing vs. Personal Borrowing - Which is best? Part 2
Part 2: Six Factors to Consider In this segment, we will move beyond simply looking at the option that produces the highest after-tax...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Apr 11, 20223 min read
Corporate Borrowing vs. Personal Borrowing - Which is best? Part 1
Part 1: How Did We Get Here? Many of us have recommended the benefits of permanent life insurance to our business owner clients as an...


Tony Gallippi, B.A.S (Hons.), CFP, CLU
Sep 8, 20216 min read
Cottage and Taxation: “A ticking tax time bomb”
As we’re heading into the autumn months and many cottage owners begin to slow down their time spent at the cottage, it’s a perfect time...
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