David McKnight Speaker Biography
Finance & Retirement Expert and
Best-Selling Author of The Power of Zero
David McKnight graduated from Brigham Young University with Honors in 1997. Over the past 20 years David has helped put thousands of Americans on the road to the zero percent tax bracket. He has been featured in Forbes, USA Today, The New York Times, Fox Business, Bloomberg Radio, MarketWatch, CBS Radio, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Nasdaq.com, Reuters, Investor’s Business Daily and numerous other national publications. David was a Focus Speaker at the worldwide annual meeting of MDRT in Toronto, Canada and is a multiple Top of the Table qualifier.
The Power of Zero
His bestselling book The Power of Zero has sold over 200,000 copies and the updated and revised version was published by Penguin Random House. When it was launched in September of 2018, it finished the week as the #2 most-sold business book in the world. In 2019 The Power of Zero was ranked as the #9 best financial resource in the country by Forbes Magazine. This book was recently made into a full-length documentary film, also entitled The Power of Zero. As the President of David McKnight & Company, he mentors hundreds of financial advisors from across the country who specialize in The Power of Zero retirement approach. He and his wife Felice have seven children.
David McKnight Speaking Topics
The Power of Zero
There is a huge freight train bearing down on America and it's coming in the form of higher taxes. Yet, most Americans continue to accumulate the vast majority of their savings in tax-deferred vehicles like 401(k)s and IRAs. In this presentation, industry leader David McKnight discusses the perils of tax-deferred investing and explains how life insurance can help get your clients off the train tracks and into the 0% tax bracket by retirement. Why is zero percent so powerful? Because if tax rates double, two times zero is still zero!