Today we're thrilled to welcome Dave Valcourt, VP of Business Development at Financial Architects Partners, part of NFP, one of the largest insurance brokers in the country. Dave has spent almost twenty years in life insurance as an independent broker who supports the full spectrum of policies, from term life to whole life to private placement life insurance, and canvasses more than twenty carriers to match each product to each client's situation.

In this conversation, Dave explains where the industry's pushy reputation comes from and why commissions on a traditional permanent policy can reach 90% of a first-year premium, maps what term, whole life, GUL, IUL, VUL, and PPLI are each built for, and walks through premium financed life insurance - the strategy where a private bank lends the premium directly to a trust, so the money arrives without gift tax and whole life cash value serves as collateral at a 95% advance rate.

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Long Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.

Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.

Today we’re thrilled to welcome Kartik Singapura, partner and trial attorney at Bell Nunnally. We discuss a working litigator’s view of AI tools for lawyers: what they genuinely speed up, where they still fail, and why he calls AI an average intelligence.

The conversation covers how AI inverted the way lawyers build a case, whether the billable hour survives, and what happens when clients arrive with ChatGPT legal advice that is confident but wrong.

Kartik also answers the question on every desk - will AI replace lawyers? - and shares his warning about what you type into a chatbot.

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Long Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.

Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.

Today we’re thrilled to welcome David Stein, former chief investment strategist at institutional advisory firm FEG and host of the Money for the Rest of Us podcast. David spent close to two decades advising endowments, foundations, and institutional clients before turning to teaching individual investors how markets work and building the market analysis tool Asset Camp.

In this conversation, David makes the case that a 60/40 portfolio is too risky when the goal is preserving generational capital, explains how the S&P 500 has drifted toward a concentrated, AI-heavy benchmark trading near record valuations, and walks through his own “asset garden” - a portfolio of roughly 20% stocks alongside gold, crypto, private capital, preferred stocks, closed-end funds, and catastrophe bonds.

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Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates, from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.