Wellness-Integrated Financial System
High Monthly Cost. Low Lifetime Cost. Built Around One Framework.
The Real Risk for High Earners
You don't have an income problem. You've solved that.
The risk is paying for disconnected financial products that extract value without coordination. Life insurance that disappears at retirement. Retirement funding that treats your health as irrelevant. Banking that contributes nothing to your long-term plan.
The wellness programme solves this by becoming the operating system that connects everything.
The Wellness Programme Is the Operating System
Everything connects through this framework. Remove it and the system collapses into silos.
Life Insurance
Engagement directly affects pricing, premium recovery, and benefit structure. Your behaviour changes how cover is designed and what happens to the money you pay.
Retirement Funding
Recovered premiums are redirected into retirement capital. Enhanced contributions build faster than standard savings. Cover doesn't end at retirement—it converts.
Banking Behaviour
Daily financial discipline reinforces wellness participation and long-term structure. Your transactional choices feed back into the entire system.
Each layer reinforces the others. This only works when wellness sits at the centre and everything is designed around it.
It is about how products are connected through wellness.
How Life Insurance Becomes Wealth, Not Waste
Traditional life insurance works like car insurance. You pay premiums. If you don't claim, the money disappears. Decades of payments vanish into an insurer's profit margin.
This structure is fundamentally different.
Active wellness participation changes how your risk is priced. Lower risk means insurers can return all your premiums over time—while maintaining full cover.
What Happens to Returned Premiums
Returned premiums are either paid into your bank account or can be redirected into retirement funding structures.
When those amounts are used for retirement funding, they are enhanced. This means:
- The amount you paid is matched or boosted
- Your retirement capital grows faster than standard contributions
- Your life insurance premium paybacks become retirement funding—not sunk costs
- You still maintain full protection for your family
This only works when structured correctly through the wellness framework.
Why This Is Expensive Monthly, But Cheap Over a Lifetime
Let's be direct. This is a high-premium structure. Monthly costs are significantly higher than basic cover.
This is not designed for average earners.
But for the right client, this becomes the cheapest form of protection over a lifetime because:
The Lifetime Cost Logic
- Premiums are not lost—they are recovered and redirected
- Returned amounts are enhanced when used for retirement
- Benefits are experienced while you are alive, not just at death
- Your family remains protected even as value is released to you
- Premiums can stop at a defined age while cover continues
High monthly investment. Low total cost. But only if you qualify, maintain consistency, and structure it correctly.
= lifetime value far exceeding what you paid in.
Life Cover Doesn't End at Retirement
In traditional planning, insurance stops at retirement. Just when medical risk increases and longevity becomes uncertain, protection vanishes.
In a wellness-integrated system, value you built over decades doesn't disappear. It changes role.
What Happens at Retirement
✓ Unused protection can convert into retirement income
✓ Selected benefits begin paying out while you are alive
✓ Released value supplements retirement capital without liquidating investments
✓ Remaining cover continues protecting dependants
You enter retirement protected and funded, not exposed and scrambling.
Paid-Up Structure: Premiums Stop, Cover Continues
This system can be designed so that at a defined age or duration, premiums stop completely.
Your cover remains in place. Your family is still protected. You stop paying. The money you already contributed is not lost—it continues working.
This is a design choice, not an accident. It requires intentional structuring from the beginning.
Real Example: Seven-Figure Earner, Zero Interest in Managing Investments
A professional earning over R1 million per year came to us. Extremely busy. No interest in creating his own investment portfolio or managing financial products.
He wanted complete protection for his family and certainty that if something happened to him or his income, everything would be handled.
What We Structured
Complete income protection against permanent disability — if he can never work again, his family's lifestyle is fully protected
Temporary income cover with a 7-day waiting period — if he's temporarily unable to work due to illness or injury, income replacement starts immediately
The widest available severe illness cover — cancer, heart attack, stroke, and dozens of other conditions trigger immediate payouts for treatment and recovery
Full life cover for his family — if he dies, debt is settled and his dependants are provided for long-term
The premium? Enormous. One of the highest we've ever structured. Most brokers would never recommend it because it looks expensive.
But here's what makes it work:
Why This Becomes the Cheapest Option
Because the structure was designed correctly from the beginning and linked to the wellness programme:
- All premiums paid will be returned at retirement — every rand he pays into this system comes back
- Premiums become paid-up at a defined age — he stops paying, but cover remains locked in for life
- A portion of his life cover will be paid out to him at retirement — not just returned premiums, but actual cover converting into retirement capital
- His family remains fully protected — even as value is released to him, they are still covered
He got the most expensive product available. But because he maintains wellness participation and the structure was designed correctly, he gets everything back — plus more.
by getting everything you pay back.
Why This Only Works for Certain Clients
You need to earn enough to afford high monthly premiums without financial strain.
You need to maintain wellness participation consistently over decades.
You need to value long-term certainty more than short-term flexibility.
This Is For:
- Professionals earning R100,000+ per month
- Business owners with stable, high income
- People who want a system they don't have to manage daily
- Clients who value structure over speculation
This Is Not For:
- Price shoppers looking for the cheapest cover
- Clients who can't commit to long-term wellness participation
- People who prefer active investment management to structured certainty
- Anyone uncomfortable with high monthly costs, regardless of lifetime value
Everything connected. Nothing wasted.
How We Design This System
We don't sell products. We design integration.
The wellness programme is positioned at the centre. Life insurance, retirement funding, and banking behaviour are structured around it. Every component reinforces the others.
What We Structure
The Framework: How wellness participation connects life cover, retirement funding, and daily financial behaviour into one coordinated system
The Integration: How premium recovery works, where returned amounts go, and how they are enhanced for retirement
The Timeline: When premiums can stop, when cover converts, and how value is released over your lifetime
The Sustainability: How the system adapts as you age without collapsing or requiring dramatic changes
This cannot be assembled from standard products. It requires intentional design from the beginning.
Start With a Wellness Integration Review
We assess existing cover, retirement alignment, premium sustainability, and structural efficiency.
The goal is not more products. The goal is one wellness-centred system where every rand you pay works harder for longer.
If you qualify and the structure fits your income level, this becomes the most cost-effective lifetime solution available.
Please Fill Out the Form BelowThis structure is what I have used for me and my wife's own planning and I can show you first hand how to create value from integrating your products.
Questions About Wellness Integration?
If you're earning R100,000+ per month and want to explore whether this system fits your financial structure, let's talk.
Albert Schuurman
Director of Sales & Marketing at AS Brokers | FSP 17273
25+ years helping South Africans structure integrated financial systems