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.
Is federal oversight in the future for target-date funds?
By Danielle AndrusTarget-date funds could be the next financial product subject to federal scrutiny. A Senate committee recently identified three main concerns with the product, the Wall...
October 15, 2009
Take this job and love itWhen thinking of work, the majority of us conjure stress, office politics, endless meetings, obnoxious co-workers. Surprise -- it could all be good for you. As...
October 15, 2009
Tuning in and logging offBoomers started the sexual revolution and the women's movement, but when searching for information, they're a traditional bunch. A study from Pew Research Center found...
October 14, 2009
A Democrat's road to DamascusThe Bay State's black population hovers around 6 percent, so it was a victory for the "post-racial' era when Deval Patrick won the governorship in...
October 14, 2009
Commentary: Health care reform not complicatedHealth care costs are now approximately 17 percent of our gross domestic product and rising, writes Tom Fitz, president St. Mary's Health Care System, in...
October 14, 2009
Study: Despite rally, pessimism reinsAllstate and National Journal's latest survey finds that although the U.S. may be emerging from the recession, Americans are pessimistic about the years ahead. Specifically,...
October 13, 2009
The boomer Social Security dilemmaThe number of unemployed workers age 55 and older was 6.8% in September, up from 4.2% a year earlier, according to USA Today. That's lower...
October 13, 2009
Americans will work to age 69A new study from the MetLife Mature Market Institute reports that many Americans over the age of 55 plan to work at least until age...