Other Strategies
The strategies most advisors never mention: stock options, infinite banking with whole life insurance, and Bitcoin.
Beyond real estate
These are alternative investments: strategies that sit alongside the traditional mix of stocks, bonds, mutual funds and cash. Most portfolios are built almost entirely from that traditional mix, so they tend to rise and fall together, and they mostly leave you waiting on the market.
Alternatives give your money other jobs to do: creating income, acting as a reserve you control, or protecting you against things the traditional mix can't. Real estate is the one we know best. These three are the others we teach.
Stock Options
Sell options and collect the premium, the way an insurance company does, to create monthly income from capital you already have.
How stock options work →Infinite Banking & Whole Life Insurance
A properly structured whole life policy that protects your family and becomes a source of capital you can borrow against, on your terms.
How infinite banking works →Bitcoin
A small, deliberate allocation as a hedge against the money in your account slowly losing its value, sized so a deep drop would never change your plans.
Why a small allocation →Better together
The real power comes from using these strategies as one system, with the income from one funding the next.
- Stock options create monthly income from capital you already have.
- That income can build up inside a whole life policy, your own capital reserve.
- The policy funds the down payment on real estate, which adds cash flow and equity.
- A small Bitcoin allocation sits alongside it all as a long-term hedge.
The whole system in Build Wealth. Live Life.
Martin's book covers all four strategies, stock options, real estate, infinite banking with whole life insurance, and Bitcoin, and shows how he uses them together, step by step.