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.
Women key to LTCI market
By John SullivanStill struggling with your LTCI message? You might be targeting the wrong spouse. Two-thirds (66 percent) of purchasers were women and the average single premium...
June 25, 2009
Low energy ideas"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." So said Rahm Emanuel, the President's chief-of-staff, and boy did he mean it. Energy reform...
June 23, 2009
FSC to hold hearing on financial products and consumer protection - watch the live WebcastThe House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday morning to discuss regulatory measures for consumer financial products. The hearing is entitled "Regulatory Restructuring: Enhancing...
June 22, 2009
Study: Insurance M&A likely to increase this yearMergers and acquisitions will increase later this year as U.S. insurers and financial institutions shed non-core insurance businesses to boost capital, according to a study...
June 17, 2009
House subcommittee approves retirement advice billThe Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Pensions and Labor of the House Education and Labor Committee today approved legislation by a 13 to 8 vote to...
June 17, 2009
House members to vote on retirement security billsWhile President Obama prepares to unveil his proposed changes to financial industry regulation, House members are focusing on two bills that will enforce federal protection...
June 16, 2009
Life insurance lags at start of '09Life insurance sales plummeted in the first quarter of 2009, the steepest quarterly drop since 1943, according to newly released data from LIMRA International. Premium from...
June 12, 2009
Video: Middle-class have greater retirement risk than previously thoughtA new report from retirement coalition Americans for Secure Retirement finds the events in just the last six months of 2008 have dramatically worsened the...