Life Planning Strategies
Life planning strategies, with ideas about how to use life insurance and related products to help people and businesses get things done.
Boomer women less optimistic, more resilient
By Danielle AndrusNearly 80 percent of women feel that the older they get, the more resilient they become, according to a recent survey from VibrantNation.com. "Boomer women are...
November 18, 2009
Chubby boomers face greater disabilityA recent study found that higher obesity rates could be increasing disability rates among those between the ages of 60 and 69 the Los Angeles...
November 12, 2009
They're going to kill us allBoomer women outnumber boomer men - hardly surprising since women have a longer life expectancy - but it hasn't always been the case. According to...
November 12, 2009
Reform provision for long term careNovember is Long Term Care Insurance Month. As reform swirls in Washington, we thought we'd call attention to one important provision in particular. The health...
November 12, 2009
America's beer envyI'm in Australia for a long weekend (I married into a family of pilots. Apparently they do this sort of thing). Stick with me. The...
November 01, 2009
Insurance Update: Bonds. Death Bonds.September's financial news seemed more suitable for Halloween, with headlines about the "macabre" subject of "death bonds" cropping up everywhere from mainstream media to the...
October 30, 2009
Shares for mortgage, life insurers upGood news from mortgage and life insurers - optimism about extending the home-buyer tax credit and robust third-quarter earnings from several firms led to a...
October 30, 2009
The opt-out optical illusion"Welcome to Washington." The beltway equivalent of Saving Private Ryan's famous FUBAR acronym. A phrase that aptly conveys the utter bewilderment at what legislators pass...