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Leap: Lifetime Economic Acceleration Process

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I first encountered the Lifetime Economic Acceleration Process on the internet in 1999. As a financial advisor I found it difficult initially to really believe what the LEAP program was telling me.
After years of analysis I still cannot find any faults within the system. I soon realised that a lot of my professional education came from government supervised education programs (requirements necessary to be dually licensed in investments and insurance) and from the financial institutions who were manufacturing the products I was selling.
Although the program is close to 30 years old, it is based on economics which always remain relevant. There are many variables that go into creating a financial plan; unfortunately they are essentially out of date once they are completed.
It is impossible to advise a client on what choices to make in their financial plan using out dated information and trying to guess what challenges the future will hold.
Mr. Castiglione's program creates a plan that will benefit the reader during times of economic prosperity and at the same time protect them against potential financial disasters they may face due to an unexpected job loss, ill health or accidents.
Most financial plans are nothing more than elaborate predictions of what may happen based on a static set of variables. The LEAP process is fluid and can adapt to any situation today and as easily 20 or 30 years down the road.
THIS IS THE BEST BOOK ON FINANCE YOU WILL EVER BUY!
Darryl Smith RFC, CSA
Synergy Life Financial
www.synergylife.ca
Barrie ON Canada

You may need to set aside conventional wisdom and consider a new way of thinking in order to build a plan that succeeds. Using this book will help you become more knowledgeable and better equipped to grow and protect your money. The ideas here are clear and easy to understand, and are not exhaustive. Still, it would be wise to seek a good advisor to help structure your plan. There was one red flag: when he recognizes Keynes as a great economist.

Castiglione is quite a success story. LEAP (Lifetime Economic Acceleration Process) is designed around multiplying the effectiveness of your money and sheltering it from wealth erosion. He stresses, "Money is not math". He has given us an overview in all areas to complete our portfolio, such as insurance, investments, income, assets, estate, family, wealth destroyers, home, retirement and more.

God bless
Scott

I bought this as a gift after having read it myself. The seller sent it to me promptly and the book was in great condition, just as they described.

The author builds a case against traditional financial theory with incomplete explanations and half truths. He argues that everything you have ever heard or read is wrong and that HE has found the answer (beware of anyone that ever tells you that about anything). Compound interest is bad?? He does a good job of explaining things that can erode the value of money (like taxes and inflation), but conveniently never gets to how his "financial architects" - sales people that pay money to him to buy his LEAP system - overcome the effects of inflation, for example. He just talks how traditional investment products' real returns are eroded by inflation. I suppose whole life insurance can overcome that? On the positive side, everyone should have some kind of a system to watch what they spend, properly insure themselves, and save as much as possible, so if this helps people do that, then there is some benefit to this. Just get a second opinion before you stop investing in your employer's retirement plan, take a reverse mortgage on your house, stop compounding your savings and put all of this into the panacea of whole life insurance with - as he would say - little or no money out of pocket!