Think Differently. Plan Progressively.

Your Financial Future Deserves Better Questions.

Progressive Planner helps forward-thinking individuals explore smarter ways to protect, grow, access and ultimately transfer the wealth they have worked hard to build.

Who Progressive Planner Is For

Progressive Planning is more than a financial strategy. It’s a mindset.

It’s for people who believe their greater future will be created by learning more, thinking differently, and taking action.
THINK DIFFERENTLY

Challenge Conventional Wisdom

Progressive Planners are willing to move beyond the financial ideas they have been taught their entire lives. They are curious, teachable, decisive and independent thinkers.

KEEP LEARNING

What You Don’t Know Matters

They understand that what they don’t know may be the very thing holding them back. They seek new ideas, new strategies and knowledgeable people who can expand their perspective.

TAKE ACTION

Learn. Decide. Implement.

Progressive Planners don’t simply collect information. When they discover something tangible, proven and beneficial, they take action.

OPTIMIZE

Always Ask: “Is There a Better Way?”

They save. They accumulate. They recognize opportunity. And they continually look for better ways to protect, grow and optimize what they have worked hard to build.

If this sounds like you, you may already think like a Progressive Planner.
The Progressive Strategies

Different stages of life require different strategies.

Progressive Planning is not about forcing everyone into the same solution. It is about combining safety, liquidity, growth potential and tax efficiency in ways that fit where you are today—and where you want to go.

STRATEGY ONE

The Annuity Waterfall

70% Safety • 15% Cash • 15% Growth

Designed primarily for people who have already accumulated meaningful retirement assets and want to protect what they have built while maintaining access to cash and continued growth potential.

70% — SafetyA stable annuity foundation designed for principal protection and long-term income planning.
15% — CashA highly liquid reserve designed to keep money accessible for opportunities and unexpected needs.
15% — GrowthA Growth Engine positioned to pursue greater market upside than the protected portion of the strategy.

The objective: Protect the majority. Keep cash available. Continue growing.

STRATEGY TWO

The Life Insurance Waterfall

85% Long-Term Foundation • 15% Growth

Designed for people who want to build a long-term financial system around tax advantages, liquidity, protection and future income potential.

85% — FoundationA properly designed permanent cash-value life insurance strategy intended to build accessible cash value while also providing a death benefit.
15% — GrowthA separate Growth Engine positioned to pursue additional upside outside the policy.
Long-Term FocusBuilt for people who value both lifetime financial flexibility and legacy planning.

This approach is designed for people with a longer time horizon who want their financial system to provide benefits both during their lifetime and for the next generation.

STRATEGY THREE

The Dual Purpose Strategy

Build Toward Three Potentially Tax-Free Retirement Income Buckets

What if the same dollars you are already setting aside for your future could serve more than one purpose today—and help create multiple tax-advantaged income sources in retirement?

The Dual Purpose Strategy coordinates a properly structured permanent life insurance policy with a separate growth vehicle such as a Roth IRA. As policy cash value develops, access through policy loans may provide capital that can be strategically deployed into the second vehicle, subject to eligibility, contribution limits, policy performance and individual circumstances.

The long-term objective is especially powerful: coordinate retirement income so that qualified Roth distributions and properly managed policy loans may be received without current federal income tax. Because those sources generally do not add to taxable income, they can also help reduce the income used to determine whether Social Security benefits become taxable. When the rest of the retirement income picture is structured appropriately, this can create three potentially tax-free income buckets working together.

Social SecurityBenefits may remain free of federal income tax when combined income stays below applicable IRS thresholds.
Roth IRAQualified distributions can be received free of federal income tax under current tax law.
IUL Policy LoansProperly structured and managed policy loans may provide access to cash value without creating current taxable income.

Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and current law. Roth distributions must meet applicable qualification rules. Life insurance policy loans reduce available cash value and death benefit, accrue interest, and may create tax consequences if a policy is surrendered, lapses with gain, or is treated as a modified endowment contract. Social Security taxation depends on total combined income and filing status. Consult qualified tax and insurance professionals regarding your situation.

“How many jobs can we make each dollar do?”
A Coordinated Financial Strategy

A strategy is only as strong as the team behind it.

Your financial life does not exist in separate pieces. Retirement planning, taxes, estate planning, investments, insurance and asset protection all affect one another.

SPECIALIST AREA

Estate Planning

Coordinate with experienced professionals to help structure and transfer assets according to your wishes.

SPECIALIST AREA

Tax Mitigation

Explore legitimate strategies with qualified tax professionals designed to improve the tax efficiency of your overall plan.

SPECIALIST AREA

Wealth Management

Bring investment professionals to the table to address growth, diversification, income and long-term objectives.

SPECIALIST AREA

Asset Preservation

Identify strategies intended to help protect what you have accumulated from unnecessary risk and financial erosion.

THE PROGRESSIVE PLANNER APPROACH
One Client. One Strategy. The Right Specialists.

Progressive Planner helps create the overall financial roadmap and, when appropriate, brings experienced professionals into the conversation so decisions can be made with the complete picture in mind.

About Samuel McGlone

“Is there a better way?”

I’ve spent much of my life as an entrepreneur, business owner, salesperson, educator, and lifelong student of financial strategies.

What has always driven me is a simple question: Is there a better way?

Over the years, I became increasingly interested in strategies that challenge conventional financial thinking—particularly when it comes to how people save, protect, grow, access, and ultimately transfer their wealth.

That curiosity became the foundation for Progressive Planner.

I believe too many people are following financial systems simply because they were taught that was the way things were supposed to be done. My goal is to help people step outside of that conventional thinking, understand alternatives they may never have been shown, and make better-informed decisions about their financial future.

I don’t believe financial planning should begin with a product. It should begin with understanding the individual—their goals, their assets, their concerns, their timeline, and what they ultimately want their money to accomplish.

From there, my role is to help develop the bigger picture and, when appropriate, bring together specialists in areas such as wealth management, tax mitigation, estate planning, insurance and asset preservation so the different pieces of a client’s financial life can work together rather than independently.

Progressive Planner was created for people willing to learn, challenge old assumptions, and continually look for a better way to build their financial future.

Start the Conversation

Your next strategy begins with better questions.

If the Progressive Planner mindset sounds like you, start a conversation. We’ll learn more about where you are today, what you want to accomplish, and whether one of our strategies may be worth exploring.

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